Glaser on health care IT : perspectives from the decade that defined health care information technology / John P. Glaser ; foreword by Russ Branzell.

Includes index.

"Glaser on Health Care IT: Perspectives from the Decade that Defined Health Care Information Technology is a collection of some of the most widely read articles that have been published in H & HN Daily, H & HN Weekly, and Most Wired Online in the past decade (2005-2015). The columns are dated to show their original publication dates, and the material is organized into four broad themes: HIT Applications and Analytics Challenges; Improving Organizational Performance through HIT; IT Management Challenges; HIT Industry Observations. Each section offers readers an intimate look at the myriad issues associated with getting IT "right" and the organizational performance gains that can be achieved in doing so. Moreover, the book examines the power and potential of the technologies available to health care providers today, as well as the transformative nature of those we have yet to fully embrace. From seasoned CIOs and consultants to software developers and nurses, this book provides invaluable insights and guidance to all those seeking to make the delivery of care safer, more effective, and more efficient through the application of health care IT"--Back cover.

Section 1. HIT applications and analytics challenges. How the Internet of things will affect health care -- Interoperability : a promise unfulfilled -- Solving big problems with big data -- The role of IT in understanding and managing cost -- Heeding the call for health information exchange -- The growing role of analytics and business intelligence -- From the transaction-based EHR to the intelligence-based EHR -- Surviving a revenue cycle system conversion -- Six key technologies to support accountable care -- Accountability and the revenue cycle -- The next IT revolution : nearly ubiquitous computing -- Accountable care organizations and health information exchange -- Information technology for accountable care organizations -- The variability of patient care -- Managing clinical decision support -- The service-oriented solution for health IT -- Applications as foundations : laying the groundwork for evolution -- Advanced interoperability : beyond the exchange of data -- Section 2. Improving organizational performance through HIT. Telemedicine hits its stride -- From the electronic health record to the electronic health plan -- The evolution of accountability and collaboration -- Ensuring IT-enabled gains in organizational performance -- Managing complexity with health care information technology -- Expanding patients' role in their care -- Ready, set, go : performance-based reimbursement -- Information technology for community hospitals -- Nursing in the new era of accountability -- A new era in IT's strategic importance -- IT strategies for process improvement -- What happens after EHR implementation is done? -- The myth of IT's competitive advantage -- The fundamentals of sustained collaboration -- Success factors for clinical information system implementation -- Managing threats to large IT projects -- The board's role in the IT discussion -- The challenge of IT value -- Section 3. IT management challenges. The risky business of information security -- Hitting the restart button : we've all been there -- Organizational effectiveness in implementing IT -- The scope of an IT strategy -- Thinking strategically about new information technology -- Data challenges on the EHR agenda : are they using IT effectively? -- Necessary downtime -- The legacy of leadership IT effectiveness -- Section 4. HIT industry observations. Why we do what we do -- Health care IT innovation : the best is yet to come -- Of guns and EHRs -- More time needed for meaningful use -- Seeing health care from both the provider's and the vendor's viewpoints -- Getting ready for the big dance -- The federal electronic health record strategy -- Boundary erosion in information technology -- Taking care in EHR adoption -- Health care's progressive transformation -- Health care IT progress report -- Four challenges in personalized medicine -- The tiering of EHR adoption -- The four cornerstones of innovation -- Information technology is not an intervention when information hurts.