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Video: Live from HIMSS with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Neil Versel

NEW ORLEANS—I made my debut for the new Health Innovation Broadcast Consortium last night with a live webcast interview with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush. As usual, I didn’t need to prepare much for the interview because Bush almost interviews himself, … Continue reading →

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Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber: 2013 edition

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Neil Versel

Once again, as has become custom, I sat down with HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber at the organization’s Chicago headquarters the week before the annual HIMSS conference to discuss the conference as well as important trends and issues in the health … Continue reading →

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Hotels open up for HIMSS13

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Neil Versel

Here’s a quick travel update for those of you still making plans for HIMSS13 in New Orleans next month. Today, OnPeak, the travel service that HIMSS has contracted with, seems to have released a number of hotel rooms for the … Continue reading →

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AliveCor gets some airtime, too

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Neil Versel

I’ve had a lot of traffic to this site today because of Dr. Eric Topol’s appearance on “Rock Center with Brian Williams” on NBC last night, which I posted early this morning. As I mention in my related story in … Continue reading →

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Breaking: Allscripts fires Tullman, hires former Cerner exec Black as CEO

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Neil Versel

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions today gave into considerable investor pressure and fired CEO Glen Tullman. Former Cerner COO Paul M. Black has been named CEO. Lee Shapiro has been removed from his position as company president, but will stay on as … Continue reading →

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HIMSS12 notes

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Neil Versel

I’ve just returned home from HIMSS12. As usual, it was a grueling week, made more grueling by the fact that I arrived a day earlier than usual. But I do have to say that this was the least stressful HIMSS … Continue reading →

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Video: Merge Healthcare

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Neil Versel

Other locales may get more press in this industry,  but the Chicago area has a surprisingly strong community of health IT vendors. It is well known that Allscripts is headquartered at the Merchandise Mart. GE Healthcare, while based just outside … Continue reading →

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Mostashari, Chopra get down to ‘Meaningful Yoose’ rap

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Neil Versel

Now it makes sense. A couple weeks ago, I got the latest update from fictional EHR vendor Extormity: Extormity to Federal Health IT Leaders – ‘Take a chill pill, fellas.’ Brantley Whittington, fictional CEO of make-believe electronic health record vendor … Continue reading →

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Epic gets in the Halloween spirit

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Neil Versel

Have you seen Epic Systems’ home page today? It’s got quite the Halloween theme. I have a screen grab in case you miss it, but it’s more fun to see the animations on the page itself.

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