healthsystemCIO.com ... One on One With MedStar CIO, Dr Gerry Higgins ...

Colleagues,

Please see interview with MedTech-IQ member Gerry Higgins ...

Gerald Higgins, PhD., MBA, MS, is not your typical CIO — that’s because Higgins is a chief innovation officer. Getting paid not to carry out EMR implementations or persuade physicians to embrace CPOE, Higgins is remunerated to “see what’s
happening one or two hills over the horizon.” With a dizzying array of
jobs and accomplishments already behind him, Higgins has a
non-traditional perspective for chief information officers, and a
hearty dose of sympathy for the pressures they currently face.
Recently, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra talked with Higgins
about what makes a good innovation officer, meaningful use, and much
more...

BOLD STATEMENTS

A good analogy might be the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), so think of my job as a mini-DARPA — they look five hills over, and I look one or two hills over, in terms of what is approaching the hospital network.

I think it’s important that I tell hospital clinicians they must understand personal genomics and pharmacogenomics, because they are going to be required to use it in their practice. They haven’t a clue about it right now, and the typical 2-hour CME course is
not going to cut it.

If you look at the meaningful use objectives that have been suggested for comment, every single one of these things Azyxxi could do eight years ago. The ones that it can’t are kind of ridiculous.

Read on at: http://healthsystemcio.com/2010/01/19/one-on-one-wgerry-higgins-chi...

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