Re: [Hardhats-members] Ken Kiser considered for Health Chief for the UK

2006-08-04 Thread Joseph Conn
colleague Andis Robeznieks wrote a piece about it for our email newsletter. He got an anonymous call today from someone who said you'd left Medsphere because of the suit, which I've read. Do you have time/interest in talking with me either on or off the record? Regards, Joe Joseph

Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

2006-03-22 Thread Joseph Conn
Anyone have contact info for Peter Groen? Joseph Conn Staff writer Modern Healthcare Modern Physician Heatlh IT Strategist 312-649-5395 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the NEW ModernPhysician.com, and register now for Modern Physician Stat and Modern Physician Alert >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph Conn
f its citizens gives it the right to snoop on all of its citizens. This program isn't a slippery slope in my book, it's a toboggan run. Joseph Conn Staff writer Modern Healthcare Modern Physician Heatlh IT Strategist 312-649-5395 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the NEW ModernPhysician.co

Re: [Hardhats-members] Cerner signs 10 year deal with Military Hospitals

2005-08-05 Thread Joseph Conn
It's nuts, isn't it. DoD paid a billion dollars to hire someone to mutate VistA so badly that the DoD needs to pay Cerner $51 million for lab software that's built iinto VistA which is free save for the cost of electricity to run the download. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/05/05 11:20 AM >>> It

Re: [Hardhats-members] VISTA-OFFICE EHR VENDOR TEST

2005-07-29 Thread Joseph Conn
about VOE based on two lines in the NYT story. I got a feeling you're going to need a secretary. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/29/05 01:11PM >>> Hi Joe, Yes it is ready now, we just completed testing the logistics etc. for the test this morning. Joseph Joseph Conn wrote:

Re: [Hardhats-members] VISTA-OFFICE EHR VENDOR TEST

2005-07-29 Thread Joseph Conn
Is the test ready?? I was told yesterday it was not. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/29/05 12:09PM >>> VISTA-OFFICE EHR VENDOR TEST In preparation for the upcoming release of VistA-Office EHR, the VistA-Office EHR Vendor Support Organization (VVSO) is offering vendors with demonstrated expertise the

Re: [Hardhats-members] WebServices future development???

2005-05-05 Thread Joseph Conn
Dr. Cheah,   You have spawned an innovation at Crain Communications.  I asked my tech department head, Fred Bauman, (I cc'd him on our last e-mail) about installing Skype and sent him the link, expecting to get a no and some explaination about the firewall.    Instead, after a couple of hou

Re: [Hardhats-members] BIG NEWS re HealtheVet- St. Petersburg Times

2005-04-13 Thread Joseph Conn
Any Hardhats/WorldVistA folks want to comment on this Carnegie report story for a story I'm working on??? I've got calls into the VA for comment.   Joseph ConnStaff writerModern PhysicianModernPhysician.comModern Physician STATHeatlh IT Strategist312-649-5395[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Check out th

Re: [Hardhats-members] BIG NEWS re HealtheVet- St. Petersburg Times

2005-04-13 Thread Joseph Conn
Oh, boy!  Wish someone had leaked that report to me!!>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/13/05 11:53AM >>>VA faces another computer problemBy PAUL DE LA GARZA and STEPHEN NOHLGREN Published April 13, 2005      A report done for the administration suggests that the VA's multibillion-dollar plan to upgra

Re: [Hardhats-members] Former MDC People from Brazil

2005-03-17 Thread Joseph Conn
Dear Hardhats,   I'm looking for the remaining small physician office in which VistA Office EHR is being beta tested.  Anyone know who that might be?   I wrote about Dr. Udochi in Baltimore and the West Virginia Primary Care Network, where three of the test sites are located.  I'm told the

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA on GTM

2004-10-20 Thread Joseph Conn
Anyone who attended the VistA-Office meeting this morning want to talk about it for a quick update article I'm wanting to run this afternoon on MP Stat?   I'm at 312-649-5395.  Thanks,   Joe >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/04 09:07PM >>>The one that has gone public with VistA on GT.M is Spring B

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: Text of Article from Modern Physician

2004-10-18 Thread Joseph Conn
Re: market size   According to an AMA survey from 2001, 33% of what it calls "patient care physicians" are in solo practice, another 11% are in practice in two-physician offices, 8.5% in three-physician offices. These exclude government and military docs.  That 52.5% is in practices so small

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: Modern Physician article about VistA in the secular world (outside the friendly confines of VA)

2004-09-02 Thread Joseph Conn
ritten an article about it.  The software was all installed in public clinic in Washington D.C. I work for the Pacific Telehealth Technology Hui in Honolulu, and we are also installing it in clinics in Honolulu. We are using GTM on Linux. -Original Message-From: Joseph Conn [mailt

[Hardhats-members] Re: Modern Physician article about VistA in the secular world (outside the friendly confines of VA)

2004-09-02 Thread Joseph Conn
  Hardhats and other friends of VistA:   I am researching an article for Modern Physician on the possible reach of the President's Executive Order 13335 of April 27 which called on the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense to "jointly report on the approaches the Departme