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Shahid N. Shah is CEO of Netspective, a Java/.NET enterprise architect, a Microsoft Architect MVP, and SOA consultant/speaker that specializes in healthcare IT with an emphasis on e-health, EMRs, data integration, and legacy modernization. He also served as HIMSS Enterprise IT Committee Member.
Over the last 15 years the health IT positions he has held include Virtual CTO for CardinalHealth's CTS unit, CTO of a Electronic Medical Records (EMR) company, a Chief Systems Architect at American Red Cross, Architecture Consultant at NIH, and SVP of Healthcare Technology at COMSYS.
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Management 2.0
Are CIOs seen as obstacles to innovation? In a nice interview with Gary Hamel, Allan Alter at CIO Insight writes:
"The efficiency-focused management model has run its course, says strategist Gary Hamel. To see the future of management, look to the Internet, open source, free markets and democratic institutions."
It’s a good article. Some other interesting snippets:
"Has management as we know it reached the end of the road? Strategy expert Gary Hamel thinks so. Yes, traditional management approaches have led us to achieve great things. “If you have a couple of cars in the garage, a television in every room and a digital device in every pocket, you can thank the inventors of modern management,” he writes in his upcoming book The Future of Management (Harvard Business School Press, October 2007; $26.95). But our century-old emphasis on planning, organizing and controlling won’t help companies solve their 21st century problems. In an era marked by global competition and commoditization, adaptability, speed and creativity are essential for survival, says Hamel, whose previous books, “Leading the Revolution” and “Competing for the Future” (with C.K. Prahalad), earned him a reputation as one of the great strategic thinkers of our time. “The old management model is simply not good enough.”
The future management model is taking shape, but some aspects are already evident, Hamel told CIO Insight executive editor Allan Alter. Companies will finally begin to be as open and democratic inside their doors as societies are outside those doors. Go/no-go decisions on projects and investments now made by a handful of executives will be made collectively by hundreds of employees.
Talent will matter far more than titles. And one of the most important catalysts and models for 21st century management will be the Internet."
If you’re a manager today, especially an IT manager, it’s a good article to check out.
Shahid N. Shah
Perspectives
Productivity strategies for Doctors
Life hacks are productivity strategies that solve everyday problems — especially problems related to information overload. Joshua Schwimmer, a Physician, recently put together and presented Life Hacks for Doctors (as a slide deck, not a paper). It’s a nice presentation and I recommend all Physicians take a quick glance — it will only take a few minutes to run through it.
Shahid N. Shah
The Healthcare IT Guy
The Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals
The folks at LiveSmarter have put together their list of the Top 100 Open Source Software Tools for Medical Professionals. It includes the following subject areas:
- Medical Billing and Electronic Medical Records
- Antivirus, Security and Privacy
- Communications
- Graphics and Imaging
- Content Management Tools
- Research and Reference
- Multimedia
- Storing Patient Information
- General Tools that Work for Everyone
- Collaboration Tools
- Storing, Sharing and Managing Files
- and For Patients
It’s a nice list, worth checking out.
Shahid N. Shah
The Healthcare IT Guy
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Small. Really small
Creative Zen Stone Plus with Speaker
This MP3 player has a lot of features: 500-song capacity, 20-hour battery, an alarm clock, FM radio, voice recorder, stopwatch and—rare in an MP3 player—a built-in speaker. And it packs all that in a tiny space: check out the paperclip in the photo.
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