Comments on: Healthcare Blogging and Web 2.0 http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/ This is the Blog of Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System. This is the place where I share what I have learned through my mistakes and other crazy things in the life of a healthcare CIO. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:45:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Erin http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-3060 Erin Wed, 23 May 2007 20:41:09 +0000 http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-3060 We have read and enjoyed your blog. We have created Legal Medicine at http://legalmedicine.blogspot.com to cover medical and nursing home issues, but from a legal perspective. We invite you to read and post comments to our blog. We would also ask that you consider adding a link to Legal Medicine on your blog, and we will add a link to yours. Please let me know if you are interested in a reciprocal link. Thank you for your time. We have read and enjoyed your blog. We have created Legal Medicine at http://legalmedicine.blogspot.com to cover medical and nursing home issues, but from a legal perspective. We invite you to read and post comments to our blog. We would also ask that you consider adding a link to Legal Medicine on your blog, and we will add a link to yours. Please let me know if you are interested in a reciprocal link.

Thank you for your time.

]]> By: John Little http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1379 John Little Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:33:58 +0000 http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1379 I think it took a long time for the industry to come to grips with Web 1.0 and while they were doing that the early adopters had already shifted gears. Patients have responded to this significant lag by moving around us. They're creating their own communities and producing their own healthcare related content in huge numbers. If your developers, marketing folks, and content producers aren't familiar with the Web 2.0 model it's a difficult concept to sell. We like to think that content is mostly static, in our control, and weighted with our authority but patients and other many other industries are operating differently. The same publishing/communication model can be used, with great benefit, internally as well. In fact, if your hospital hasn't jumped in yet this is the best place to start. Just be ready for resistance when you try to sell a new way of doing business to your CIO who still communicates with his division by clipart-laden printed newsletters. The good news is that there is still a lot of opportunity for organizations that are willing to act boldly and build innovative applications that add value to the patient experience. I think it took a long time for the industry to come to grips with Web 1.0 and while they were doing that the early adopters had already shifted gears. Patients have responded to this significant lag by moving around us. They’re creating their own communities and producing their own healthcare related content in huge numbers.

If your developers, marketing folks, and content producers aren’t familiar with the Web 2.0 model it’s a difficult concept to sell. We like to think that content is mostly static, in our control, and weighted with our authority but patients and other many other industries are operating differently.

The same publishing/communication model can be used, with great benefit, internally as well. In fact, if your hospital hasn’t jumped in yet this is the best place to start. Just be ready for resistance when you try to sell a new way of doing business to your CIO who still communicates with his division by clipart-laden printed newsletters.

The good news is that there is still a lot of opportunity for organizations that are willing to act boldly and build innovative applications that add value to the patient experience.

]]> By: The PACS Designer http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1308 The PACS Designer Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:48:45 +0000 http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1308 Will, We are becoming such an inter-connected world that it is about time that health care started joining this environment in a secure way similar to online banking and internet shopping. With the advent of HIPAA it is only a matter of time before the internet community begins to feel comfortable with having their medical history transmitted securely over the internet. You'll probably be interested to know that some of your hospitals may have stuff I designed since PACS is spreading everywhere. As a PACS Designer I designed radiology PACS with Sectra while I worked at Philips Medical in 1995. Also later in 1998 I designed cardiology PACS for Philips Medical and rolled out the first filmless application for cardiology at The Cleveland Clinic to replace cinefilm. Hope the CIOs begin to become more educated and comfortable with inter-connected systems as that is where the trend is headed down this road to improved efficiency and the chance to reduced medical errors. The PACS Designer on HIStalk Will,

We are becoming such an inter-connected world that it is about time that health care started joining this environment in a secure way similar to online banking and internet shopping. With the advent of HIPAA it is only a matter of time before the internet community begins to feel comfortable with having their medical history transmitted securely over the internet. You’ll probably be interested to know that some of your hospitals may have stuff I designed since PACS is spreading everywhere. As a PACS Designer I designed radiology PACS with Sectra while I worked at Philips Medical in 1995. Also later in 1998 I designed cardiology PACS for Philips Medical and rolled out the first filmless application for cardiology at The Cleveland Clinic to replace cinefilm. Hope the CIOs begin to become more educated and comfortable with inter-connected systems as that is where the trend is headed down this road to improved efficiency and the chance to reduced medical errors.

The PACS Designer on HIStalk

]]> By: Bob Coffield http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1288 Bob Coffield Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:43:41 +0000 http://candidcio.com/2007/04/14/healthcare-blogging-and-web-20/#comment-1288 Will, Thanks for the great comment on the health care blogging and health 2.0 materials. After having examined and thought about these issues we are on the verge of an exciting time in health care. Numerous things are coming together that might force change in the industry. From consumer driven health care to the growth of social networking to lower reimbursement (which means a need for more efficiency by the industry) to . . . and the list goes on. Thanks for leading the industry by being a blogging CIO. I also followed up on your comment to my post. Would enjoy getting together and talking more about these ideas. Will, Thanks for the great comment on the health care blogging and health 2.0 materials. After having examined and thought about these issues we are on the verge of an exciting time in health care. Numerous things are coming together that might force change in the industry. From consumer driven health care to the growth of social networking to lower reimbursement (which means a need for more efficiency by the industry) to . . . and the list goes on. Thanks for leading the industry by being a blogging CIO.

I also followed up on your comment to my post. Would enjoy getting together and talking more about these ideas.

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