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5 things I learned in 10 years in healthcare

June 14, 2016 By Jon Mertz 3 Comments

5 things I learned in 10 years in healthcare

I recently passed my ten-year mark of working in healthcare. And, as I am ending my time working in healthcare technology beginning tomorrow, I’d like to share what I have learned. ...

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Filed Under: 3, Health care Tagged With: "healthcare technology", health IT, healthcare innovation, Patient Engagement

Millennials on a Mission: Health IT Leader, Jenny Sabol

February 3, 2016 By Jon Mertz 2 Comments

Millennials on a Mission: Health IT Leader, Jenny Sabol

Something new is happening at this year’s HIMSS: a gathering for our future health IT leaders – Millennials. I know, there are a lot of articles and conversations on Millennials. Too many, some would say. For me, the conversation is healthy, especially when we talk about the ...

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Filed Under: Healthcare Integration Tagged With: future of medicine, health IT, HIMSS, millennials

Giving #HITthanks. Share Your Health IT Gratitude!

November 24, 2014 By Jon Mertz Leave a Comment

Giving #HITthanks. Share Your Health IT Gratitude!

A year without negative or challenging headlines would be an unreal one. Life always has challenges, just as health IT does. Here are just a few sample headlines of the challenges with electronic health records (EHRs), interoperability, and patient engagement" Key challenges ...

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Patient Design Thinking: What Does It Take?

August 6, 2014 By Jon Mertz Leave a Comment

During this week’s #HITsm chat (Aug. 8), we will focus on design of applications in healthcare. Our social media chats have engaged two communities in sharing insights and working to determine how to design more patient-friendly applications. The two communities are #HCLDR ...

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Filed Under: #HITsm, Health care, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT, Social Media Tagged With: #hcldr, #HITsm, Business Innovation Factory, human-centered design, Patient Engagement, patient experience

What is Health IT Literacy?

July 23, 2014 By Jon Mertz Leave a Comment

What is Health IT Literacy?

In various conversations on how to improve patient care, the importance of health literacy is often raised. Health literacy is needed as it relates to effective patient engagement and healthy habits. Information and knowledge create greater awareness of how to live healthier and ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT Tagged With: health IT, health IT literacy, health literacy

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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