Gevity Healthcare Blog

I had the pleasure of attending the FHIR North Education and Connectathon event held at Mohawk College on April 26.  Given the requests I’ve received for my thoughts on the event and FHIR itself, I thought I’d share them with others:

#1. There's a lot of interest FHIR. 238 people registered for the event.   That’s on par with the numbers we would see in the US and they have 10 times our population and are way head of Canada in terms of FHIR implementations. 

Making Consumer eHealth Better

Part 2: A Better Approach

This second blog of a two-part series investigates the positives of consumer e-Health solutions. I will look at what makes for a successful solution, and propose some ideas to guide policy development around consumer eHealth.

A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Deployment Within Healthcare Organizations - Part 2

In my previous blog post, I discussed how moving from internal IT service delivery to a cloud model requires a fundamental shift in organizational planning, a major component of which is human resource (HR) planning, also referred to as human capital management. No matter the cloud delivery model chosen, there will be an impact on IT department responsibilities, as well as the types of roles needed to support the new model.

The Importance of Teamwork

In early 2006, I was sitting in a computer science class at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) listening to (now Gevity Managing Partner Emeritus) Tracy Forbes talk about the British Columbia Ministry of Justice (BC Corrections) primary care information system.

Gevity’s Kiersten Mackie on Her Day as e-Health 2015 Conference Chair

Jerry Seinfeld once joked, “according to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death…this means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”