There isn’t a serious IT leader on the planet who isn’t interested in figuring out how to capture the power and benefits of social media applications for their enterprise. Now before you get the wrong idea, let me be clear: I’m not talking about mining social media sites like Facebook or trying to open your […]
Recently, I wrote about the mission-critical nature of IT in the context of my daughter’s cardiac surgery at Montefiore Children’s Hospital. In addition to the much-appreciated well wishes, I received a great deal of comments and messages that reflected a shared belief that the work we do as IT professionals is important on multiple levels, […]
With so much going on in the digital healthcare arena, it can sometimes be hard to see the forest from the trees. The really tough part seems to be filtering through all of the developments taking place and focusing in on exactly what is affecting the pharmaceutical industry and how. The following four items consistently […]
I frequently present to pharmaceutical commercial operations executives on the topic of Health 2.o and what it means for pharma. At first I had a difficult time because I assumed that many of them knew what Web 2.0 was all about and it would be reasonably simple jump to the healthcare context; boy was I […]
Over the last six months I have had numerous discussions about the likelihood of the US government to continue funding healthcare IT initiatives in light of the current economic situation. Following yesterday’s legislation in the house, it seems clear that my prediction is this area is set to come true. (That’s #4 in the last […]
