Social Issues

Consulting

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2010-08-26 14:25
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For several years now I have been consulting with a wide variety of clients to help them improve their processes and systems. If you bring me in, note that I am trained as a socio-technical systems analyst and make a couple of core assumptions:

1) Every system exists in its present form for some reason (nothing is totally irrational, there is probably someone with some power and control who wants things to be as they are)

Remote Surveillance and Data Mgmt is a huge issue for health systems

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2010-03-02 13:51
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In the healthcare space, we are beginning to see huge investments in health information technology from the US Federal government influence the direction of development. Meanwhile, integrated clinical information systems at hospitals in the 1980s found huge challenges integrating data and providing a managerial value to the health providers. Indeed, they were deisgned to help the administrators with their analytics and quarterly reports to CMS or other regulartory bodies.

Wireless Pacemaker now in production.

Submitted by dthoma7 on Tue, 2009-08-11 16:58
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 This is really amazing.  For the first time, there is an embedded wireless pacemaker in commercial usage in healthcare.  The device allows a doctor to monitor his/her patients and their status, providing better assurance of good care and survival in case difficulties arise.

 

Wireless Pacemaker

BUS 558 Project Management and Collaboration

Submitted by dthoma7 on Mon, 2008-01-14 22:05
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Project management used to be well-characterized as managing timelines to complete fully-specified goals within budget. Sometimes this characterization is still adequate when we conduct maintenance or standardized projects. On the other hand, recognizing that projects are the main vehicle for innovating and implementing strategy in business today has led to some new thinking at the Emory Goizueta Business School.

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