Health Information Technology

Join Me at the iHT2 Toronto Health IT Summit – September 21 – 22, 2016

by Trevor Strome July 27, 2016






If you attend ONE Health IT conference this year, make it the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) Toronto Health IT Summit! I am pleased to announce that Shirley Fenton, VP and Director at the National Institutes of Health Informatics, Mark Stevens, Principal at ARRA Health Consulting, Inc., and I will be co-hosting the Institute […]






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Don’t Miss the IHT2 Healthcare Information Technology Summit in Vancouver on September 17 and 18, 2015

by Trevor Strome July 20, 2015






Save The Date! Coming this September 17 & 18 in Vancouver BC is the first Canadian Health IT Summit hosted by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. This event will be an excellent opportunity for healthcare leaders to discuss important technology trends and issues that impact healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency. The panel discussions and case […]






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A Primer on Healthcare Cloud Computing

by Trevor Strome January 29, 2015






The following article is a brief summary of an article that I wrote for SearchHealthIT. The National Institute for Standards and Technology defines cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and […]






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Institute for Health Technology Transformation (IHT2) Summit in Atlanta – April 15 & 16, 2014

by Trevor Strome April 14, 2014






I’m pleased to be co-chairing and presenting at the IHT2 Summit in Atlanta this week. Like all IHT2 summits (which all feature healthcare industry leaders), this week’s Atlanta summit promises to be an outstanding opportunity to network, share ideas, and learn about where health information technology is heading. A few of the very many outstanding topics […]






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New from HealthIT.gov – Health IT Literature Review Report and Interactive Data Visualization

by Trevor Strome March 4, 2014






NEW Health IT Literature Review Report and Interactive Data Visualization on the Health IT Dashboard! Check out: http://dashboard.healthit.gov The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has just updated their Health IT Dashboard with a comprehensive literature review regarding impacts of health IT: Health Information Technology: An Updated Systematic Review with a […]






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Healthcare Analytics Book Overview and Chapter Summary

by Trevor Strome September 29, 2013






As many readers of my blog may know, my new book Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement is due to be released on October 14th by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. I wrote this book because I observed that a gap often exists between many healthcare information technology (IT) professionals, healthcare analytics experts, and those […]






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Advances in Healthcare IT are Improving Patient Safety

by Trevor Strome August 31, 2011






IT implementations must focus on the needs of the patient Most quality improvement approaches used in healthcare (including Lean, Six Sigma, and others) consider, if not focus on, the needs of the patient when identifying opportunities for improvement and when defining metrics for evaluating outcomes and sustainability. Importantly, as health information technology (HIT) implementation projects […]






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