John D. Halamka, is an MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel and a practicing Emergency Physician.
John D. Halamka’s presentation and explained what he did for his job, how to deal with the technological evolution, the environment where he worked, what projects he was working on, and how to stick up for what he believed would work in his job. In his job the demand always exceeded the supply, the skill set is very complex and the turnover of technological, organization and budgetary change was very high. Every day he learns how to deal with the evolution of the Internet. He stated that the similarities of the job in the past 10 years have not changed. The similarities include that vendors are poor quality, budgets are tight and customers remain difficult to please because they receive so much information from the Internet.
The Environment that John Halamka works in is very interesting. The project priorities are driven by Return on Investment and Benchmarking. The ventilators replacement competes with the Information technology project. For all of his projects the capital is limited at all levels and they are continuous external pressures. Everything that goes wrong is usually based on IT so his company continuously has to keep updating, paying for performance and improving quality and safety.
John Halamka came up with a set of rules about how to say no to patients or to other problems or questions in life. Select what to change and what not to change, Identify those who will loose, acknowledge loss, over communicate information, be honest and consistent about the problem or disease, consensus is not essential, embrace and offer support in time of conflict, focus on distracters, the last two minutes of the meeting or conversation is the most important and finally you cannot please everyone in meetings or patients.
At this moment in time he is working on many projects. These projects are Electornic health records for the non-owned doctor. Storages as utility which is a penebite of clinical data research. The Idea of E-prescribing is be used around American and there is a strong authentication for this idea. He is working on the security of the company’s private patient documents. His project about Data sharing is for clinical care among the community care givers but there is a lot of non consistency throughout the states so all the laws are different.
John D. Halamka’s presentation was very interesting and I am happy that I attended.
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