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Pharma: Have No Fear Of The Blogosphere

Fard Johnmar, founder of Envision Solutions (a healthcare marketing communications consultancy) published my Pharma: Have No Fear Of The Blogosphere on his blog this morning. It’s another step in my continuing effort to get medical device manufacturers, big Pharma, and other “regulated products” providers to start corporate blogging. Lets see if it gets any discussions going.

Shahid N. Shah

HIMSS exec denies conflict in role on RMD board

I’ve commented numerous times on my general fear of conflict of interest between doctors and pharma firms so it was great to be interviewed on a related subject by Modern Healthcare. Andis interviewed me for his piece HIMSS exec denies conflict in role on RMD board. I told Andis that Davis’ appointment to the board of advisors at a for-profit health IT firm while he’s currently serving as a HIMSS executive is nothing new or terribly worrisome so long as it’s public and transparent.

Shahid N. Shah

Medical data theft through Podslurping

Podslurping is getting to be a problem in corporate environments so it’s going to be a problem in hospitals and doctors offices, too. This is an “insider theft” issue when a large memory/disk device like an iPod is connected to a computer and it “slurps” data from behind a firewall into a portable system and data theft occurs. My fellow CXOs please be sure you have policies in place as to whether or not you allow USB devices to be installed at clinical or financial workstations.

Shahid N. Shah

Health IT vendors should learn from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and MySQL

As most of us who follow the database world know, MySQL is the “little database that could”. For years it has been running millions of transactions across hundreds of thousands of websites supporting millions of online customers. MySQL AB, a tiny Swedish company with only about $20 million in revenue last year, now has so many customers and users that the Big 3 players have had to respond by releasing free editions of their software just to make sure they are still relevant for new or small projects.

Shahid N. Shah

2006 Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition Call for Participation

The Call for Paticipation for the 2006 Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition has gone out. This year the conference is being held on June 15 and 16 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Here’s how the organizers describe the event: The Conference will bring together government health care professionals to discuss their experiences and share strategies for success using information technology to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and increase efficiency in health care services.

Shahid N. Shah

De-identifiying protected health information (PHI)

A number of clients have been asking me about protected health information (PHI) solutions so I thought I’d put out a general call for help from my esteemed readers. What I’m looking for is a general-purpose data de-identification library (preferably open source) that I could use in both OSS and commercial systems. Even if it costs money, I’d love to hear about it. The idea is to be able to find PHI automatically in any arbitrary data packet (HL7, e-mail, database, etc), be able to flag it, do a one-way hash, tokenize it, add it to a dictionary, etc.

Shahid N. Shah

How to manage tape backups in health IT shops

These days we’re hearing more and more about how backup tapes, which are crucial for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes, are getting lost due to carelessness or transfer problems. Many of you are CXOs in charge of technology and information systems and I’m hoping you have had a chance to review your off site backup tape storage policies. Off site storage is crucial if you use backup tapes so that a fire or other disaster doesn’t take along your backups with your primary systems.

Shahid N. Shah

Math Will Rock Your World

BusinessWeek has a nice article in last week’s issue: Math Will Rock Your World. Most health IT applications, e-Health services, etc are usually nothing more than glorified data entry systems. Lets take some of the advice of the entrepreneurs cited in the article and move towards better analysis of the information we’ve been gathering in our systems for decades. Math and data mining could actually bring real value to our health IT apps.

Shahid N. Shah
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