Book Review: When China Rules the World

Reading is one of my favorite things to do, and it’s become harder and harder to make time for books over the last few years.  However, over Christmas I was given Martin Jacques’ book  “When China Rules the World” and I read most of it on the six flights we took over the holidays.
This is [...]

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What do Banks have to offer Healthcare?

Most of the discussion during the Medical Banking Leadership Forum seemed to center around the idea of providing PHRs or processing transactions.  The idea goes that banks should somehow get involved in the Personal Health Record (PHR) space by providing platforms for customers to view their health records since so many of their customers are [...]

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Out in Las Vegas for ASHP

This weekend and through Wednesday of this week, I’ll be attending ASHP in Las Vegas and helping out at our booth.  We’re bringing our 20×20 booth (everyone likes to comment on how it’s BLACK) and will have quite a few new things to demonstrate to those who are interested.
This year we’ll have a demo of [...]

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Distributed Software Teams

At Sentry Data Systems, we have a very distributed technology organization.  The majority of our technical staff does not work from our Deerfield Beach headquarters.  Instead, we have our developers, implementation staff, tech support, and infrastructure personnel spread out across the country, and even a satellite office located in the midwest.  Everyone is an employee, [...]

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Thoughts on Medical Banking

This past week, I was in Nashville attending the Medical Banking Project’s Leadership Forum, which was hosted by the Vanderbilt University Center for Better Health.  The Medical Banking Project is a think-tank whose goal is to raise awareness of how banks and healthcare can intersect and drive increased efficiency, visibility, etc.  The goal of the [...]

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