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Year in Review – 2011 Accomplishments

John Sharp — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:23:40 +0000

In addition to having a great year traveling and presenting, I had additional accomplishments:

Appointed as the Co-director for Biomedical Research Informatics for the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative, an NIH funded program through the Case Medical School
Joined the Editorial Board of Tech Now Briefs of the American Association of Medical Colleges
Invited to contribute to a theme issue on social media for Frontiers from the American College of Healthcare Executives
Became a featured blogger for HealthWorks Collective
Appointed as a reviewer for HIMSS 2012 abstracts – a new role for me
Authored chapter on eResearch to a book on medical informatics to be ePublished in 2012
Celebrated 30 years as an employee at Cleveland Clinic
Leading a project to develop a clinical data warehouse for research
Approaching 1000 connections on LinkedIn (969)
2881 followers on Twitter
Klout score hovering around 42
Invited to be on the advisory board of a health related startup

Looking forward to more great opportunities in 2012.

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Appropriate Use of Social Media in Healthcare Organizations

John Sharp — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:57:27 +0000

A question during a presentation on social media in healthcare about the appropriate use of social media in patient care areas. Social media can be an effective tool for engaging patients online. But what about the use of social media in patient care areas. Should nurses, physicians and other healthcare providers be online interacting with colleagues or family during active patient care? With busy clinics and busier hospital units and greater concern about patient safety, is there time for what administrators might view as a distraction? Would you want your nurse to be updating Facebook while you are waiting for post-op pain medication? Yet there may be some advantages to direct caregivers utilizing social media. How about the oncology nurse interacting with the cancer patient discharged last week? Or nurses within a hospital exchanging ideas about improving patient safety? Yet stories of abusive use of social media in health care persist.

Clear answers are hard to come by. Each hospital will need to develop its own policy and implementation of that policy in the use of social media in patient care environments. But when face time with the patient is the highest priority, social media may need to take a back seat.

Slides are here:

Social media in health care: What's Working, What's Not

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2010 Year in Review

John Sharp — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:44:01 +0000

It has been a year full of travel and accomplishments. Here is a month-by-month review:

January – hosted Lucien Engelen and others from Radboud UMCN Hospital in the Netherlands at the Cleveland Clinic for two days on everything from the group practice model to innovation and patient experience in two days.
February- vacation in Naples, Florida
March – HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta presenting twice and AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Symposium presenting a poster. Also visited the Googleplex. Stopped in Salt Lake City for a day on the way home.
April – Toronto for the - TAHSN Education Day for Healthcare Communicators – spoke on social media
May - J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia – spoke on social media in healthcare and published my first article in iHealthbeat “Social Media in Health Care: Barriers and Future Trends”
June – Visited Washington, DC. Vacation and some consulting
July – Attended the Leadership Institute of the Group on Information Leadership of the American Association of Medical Colleges in La Jolla, California for a week and became a fellow.
August – brief vacation in Salt Lake City including the Bonneville Salt Flats
September – Named a fellow in the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and named in a NIH grant on Risk Calculators
October – Presented at Toledo (Ohio) Hospital on social media and attended the CTSA Innovative Informatics for Clinical and Translational Researchers at the NIH. Did live tweeting while attending the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit.
November – coauthor of an article on a disease registry in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and another prespectives piece in iHealthbeat on the secondary use of EMR data.
December – Second article on the chronic kidney disease registry published. A positive editorial by a well known informaticists about the registry published

Looking forward to more in the coming year – conferences, presentations, publications.

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Leveraging EMR Data to Develop Disease-Based Registries

John Sharp — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:15:20 +0000

This is my other presentation at HIMSS 2010. One of the real values of EMRs is the secondary use of the data for research. While respecting patient privacy, this kind of research can be rapidly developed from EMR data. We recommend the following steps:

define the cohort of patients you want to study/monitor
define the data elements you want included
review and verify data elements with subject matter experts
set up a regular interval to extract the data
generate some test queries to verify the process
monitor to use of the data (ongoing governance)

Our initial experience with a Chronic Kidney Disease registry has been a success. We recommend that research issues be considered in any purchase and implementation of an EMR.

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Report from HIMSS 2009

John Sharp — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Saturday I participated in the Payer Symposium. I presented on the Digital Consumer with Peter Mills who presented on health promotion in Second Life. Slide handout is here, I was impressed, particularly in the panel which wrapped up the day: there was alot of discussion on the best approach to interoperability, meaningful use of EMRs, and medical home. The evidence for the effectiveness of medical home in promoting health, particularly the basic relationship with a single primary care medical provider. More on this later.

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HIMSS eHealth SIG to present on PHRs

John Sharp — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:58:00 +0000

The Webex will occur on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3pm EST. They made a good choice of presenters:

Wes Rishel, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc.
Matt Guldin, Product Manager, HealthNet, former Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan

I’ve known Matt for some time now – he brings a broad perspective on this and, of course, Gartner always has its hands on the pulse of things.

If you are interested in attending, contact Ben Dillion at ben.dillon@geonetric.com.

The HIMSS eHealth Special Interest Group will also meet in person at the Annual HIMSS conference in Chicago. The meeting will be Monday, April 6, 2009 from 1:00 – 2:30pm at the Hyatt Conference Center in room 12AB. The topic is “Health 2.0.” Watch this blog for more info. I will be there.

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Shameless Self Promotion

John Sharp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:43:00 +0000

Once in a while you have to promote yourself. Well, in this case HIMSS has done it for me. I am pleased to receive the Spirit of HIMSS Award. Nice article about me appears today in their HIMSS Weekly Insider.

Not often does one get such acknowledgment for volunteer work but HIMSS finds ways to do this on a regular basis as they are dependent on many devoted volunteers to make the organization a success. I am pleased to be part of that process. I am in good company for this award.

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Podcast of Presentation at HIMSS 2008 on SOA

John Sharp — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:45:00 +0000

HIMSS just posted podcasts from the conference in Orlando. Scroll down and you will see mine:

Service Oriented Architecture – Data Reuse and Integration in Healthcare

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Google CEO on Google Health at HIMSS – video

John Sharp — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Eric Schmidt’s keynote address at HIMSS in Orlando last month is now available on the HIMSS website. His argument to have your medical records available from “the cloud” (maybe he should have said a secure place within the cloud) is worth the time. The demo by Roni Zeiger is also included.

This announcement continues to get attention from all quarters even with some predicting that Google will dominate this space in spite of Microsoft’s earlier entry.

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Consumer-Centricity

John Sharp — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:09:00 +0000

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn posts a commentary on the HIMSS 2008 conference identifying significant themes which came through in this monster conference-exhibition of 28,000. The these include:

openness – of code such as Microsoft’s promise to open their API to HealthVault and Google doing the same for Google Health, others also demonstrating interoperability
security – privacy protection, Google Health (is it secure enough), World Privacy Forum
consumer-centric – not just from the big guys but also Allscripts and Relay Health

A good summary of a big event – worth reading.

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