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San Antonio HIMSS Chapter Meeting for May

19, May 2010

Just a reminder to join us this Thursday at Dave & Busters for our May San Antonio HIMSS Chapter meeting where James Cooley with the Health & Human Services Commission for the State of Texas will be our speaker.  Don’t forget to register online at http://www.sahimss.org James Cooley May 20th, 2010 Dave & Busters 11:30 a.m. [...]

What makes a successful mobile device?

31, Mar 2010

Just because you can run your desktop app on a mobile devices doesn’t mean you should.

My issues with mobile computing in healthcare revolve around technologies that get in the way of providers and clinicians doing their core job which is attending to patients and not fumbling through hundreds of check boxes and interfaces designed to be used on a desktop.

Panelist on Healthcare Security & Privacy at the The Texas Lyceum

3, Feb 2010

I’ve been asked to participate in the Texas Lyceum in San Antonio, February 4th through the 7th, 2010. The title of the event is “Our Growing Lives Online: Safe or Not?” and will attempt to tackle the risks associated with our connected society. The weekend event which I will participate includes interactive and team activities to help Lyceum Directors better understand how these privacy and security risks affect their day-to-day lives. The goal is to raise awareness regarding public policy involving security and privacy. San Antonio is a great backdrop for this event as it is quickly becoming a central hub of computer security with the Air Forces locating its 24th Air Force Cyber Command at the city’s Lackland air force base. There is an invisible war going on that we don’t even see involving cyber security and the public needs to understand how companies are protecting their information as it moves online.

San Antonio HIMSS January Meeting A Success

20, Jan 2010

Our January San Antonio HIMSS Chapter Lunch-And-Learn was a great success and we had another great turnout. The board is always looking to improve your chapter so please let us know your feedback by e-mailing us your comments and suggestions.

Inagural San Antonio HIMSS Chapter Meeting was a Huge Success

15, Nov 2009

This past week started one of many future events for the local San Antonio HIMSS Chapter. Our speaker, Bill Phillips, CIO of University Health System gave a very informative speech and real-world take on EMR deployments. Many thanks to Bill for starting us off on a great foot.

San Antonio HIMSS Chapter Approved by HIMSS Board of Directors

14, Oct 2009

A few weeks ago the HIMSS National Board of Directors convened and reviewed our application for forming a local chapter in San Antonio.  Texas is the only state to have more than two chapters.  Given the large health care presence in San Antonio I think this chapter is long overdue and a welcome addition to [...]

MSHUG 2009 Day One

2, Sep 2009

Day one is complete and this year the attendees seem a bit smaller than last year.  The presentations were good and can be downloaded from the mshug.org website.  I enjoyed the developer tracks more than others.  It is clear that our architecture decisions to move forward with a Silverlight implementation of a client application will [...]

Preparing for the MS Healthcare User Group 2009 Conference

31, Aug 2009

  I’ll be headed to Redmond, WA tomorrow for the 2009 Microsoft Healthcare User Group conference.   If you follow this blog you will remember I attended last year and came back with a slightly less jaded perspective of Microsoft’s efforts in the health care space.  As a company I think Microsoft has made some great strides in [...]

‘Inc.’ Magazine Names WellMed Among Nation’s Most Successful Private Companies

17, Aug 2009

WellMed Medical Management has been honored by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Case for Better Healthcare

26, May 2009

IBM Case for Better Healthcare


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