Web Seminars from Microsoft

As I have traveled along the health highway several trains have either run over me or passed me by.
In some cases all is well, but in others I have been caught on the track and unable to “get out of the way”
In today’s world one has to be a visionary with an open mind to see all the possibilities that are on the horizon or already quietly developing without your knowledge. Knowledge is power and the limiting factor on gathering important knowledge for you as a physician is critical.
It is as important to know what not to read as it is to read the sources that are credible and reliable. One also has to have discernment to differentiate between them. Time is wasted reading the wrong material, time that would be better spent relaxing.
In your daily activities operating, seeing clinic patients, overseeing business affairs, and keeping up with CME, licensure, credentialing requirements, legal affairs and business plans it is no wonder you may be tired and/or fed up by the end of a day. Balance is key to medical practice success as is location is to real estate.
Are you an entrepreneur and own your practice, or does it own you? Almost all physicians see themselves as entrepreneurs, but they are not. We as physicians set up our own businesses but are truly just “technicians”, be it medical or business. Entrepeneurship is entirely different…..requiring visionary thinking, not replicating something already in existence.
Have you read “E-Myth” by Michael Gerber, or his new book “The Dreaming Room”? Mr Gerber gave an eloquent and exciting presentation via Microsoft Live Web Conference on Tuesday December 5 2006. This web presentation is now archived. Judging from this initial presentation sponsored by Microsoft, and Intel the remainder of the series will also be dynamite. The series can be found at:
· Michael Gerber, December 5. 'E-myth' author kicks off Office Live seminar series. Register now.
· Stephen Covey, December 12,=. Get free small business advice from Stephen Covey. Register now.
Microsoft Office Live Seminar: The Age of the Alpha Dog with Donna Fenn https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/r.aspx?t=2&c=en-us&r=1287133118
Microsoft Office Live Seminar: Lessons of The Natural Entrepreneur with Andrè Taylor
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/r.aspx?t=2&c=en-us&r=1287133041


Microsoft Office Live Seminar: Effectively Influencing Up with Marshall Goldsmith
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/r.aspx?t=2&c=en-us&r=1287133099

Microsoft requires that you have a “Passport Account”. If you have a hotmail email or msn email you already have a “passport”. If not it is simple to acquire one.

I was surprised at the quality of these webinars, totally not technical in nature and of interest to all who are in business or the professions.
So, the health train is about to leave the station ..Will you be on it??

Web 2.0 Applications for Medicine

Some of you may have heard about what is now called Web 2.0. This is another term for .asp solutions that run over the internet. Businesses in other sectors are now using this more and more rather than investing in expensive software and hardware that often require upgrading and expensive maintenance contracts. This portion of the expenditure for IT is often not appreciated and can run up to 20% of the investment in IT. Many medical practices utilize this method to transition to inhouse EMR.

Several applications are now becoming available for RHIO development, and may be the best solution not only in the short run but in the long run as well. The scalability of this solution is enormous and fits both small, medium and large practice needs. It does not require affiliation with a group, IPA or institution, although this solution would do well in all of these practice settings.

Privacy and security are issues that concern most health care providers, however secure and certificated web sites already are robustly protected, and backed up. They are run by IT professionals in a professional IT environment. Often they are mirrored and run on multiple servers geographically separated. My own personal experience with an .asp solution for prescription writing has been excellent, with no outages for a year's worth of use, as opposed to our in house EMR which goes down about once a month.

I would like for each of your to look at Practice Fusion for your input and analysis. www.practicefusion.com

The next Inland Empire RHIO meeting will take place in mid-January. The announcement will be sent via email and posted to the blog(s)

Happy Holidays to everyone

Gary Levin
gmlevinmd@gmail.com

What's New??

Okay, I have submitted to my urge to upgrade the RHIO blog to something a bit more diverse and expand the scope of it to include other interesting health related information. With this transition to ver 2.0 of blogger.com, comes the ability to do some fancier things such as RSS feeds and other techno-marvels I can name but clearly go beyond the capability of my 1943 CPU. This is merely a test posting you have found after being referred from the old blog site.
All future posts will be made to "Health Train Express".