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Click here for PDF schematic of NEHEN’s network The founders of the New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN) quickly realized that the prospect of overhauling legacy systems would present a considerable barrier to their charter: creating a system for exchanging medical data that complied with the Health Insurance Portability and
Emotional intelligence in a business leader is one of those qualities that’s easy to recognize but hard to define. This may be because it’s not so much a single quality as a facility for motivating people and effecting change within an organization. Following are 18 competencies that comprise emotional intelligence,
The answer would seem obvious, especially for managers who have ascended through the ranks. Yet leaders themselves often show a misunderstanding of what it takes to be successful, especially when they make decisions based purely on intellectual analysis. In fact, there’s a school of thought that suggests emotional intelligence—one’s ability
Tibco Software hasn’t gotten to where it is—at the top of the heap of vendors of enterprise application integration software (EAI)—by standing pat. The acquisition of Talarian, a messaging company Tibco is buying for $115 million, underscores Tibco’s conviction that networked communications will replace the database as the locus of
As its name suggests, WebMethods was born in the days when enthusiasm about the Net was rising. And the six-year-old company spent the late 1990s developing software to connect Internet applications. But it has now diversified by adding software that links legacy systems to other legacy systems—as well as to
When a hacker broke into patient files at the University of Washington Hospital in May 2000, the intrusion was not the first time electronic medical records (EMR) had fallen into the wrong hands. Here are other examples from 1997 through 2000 that got noticed. Since it is well-established by security
STORAGE ARCHITECTURES Storage Area NetworkA SAN is a private, high-speed network that sits outside the local area network. Since it does not affect normal corporate traffic, the approach is well-suited for moving large amounts of data. SANs are too expensive to make connecting large numbers of systems to storage devices
The antitrust trial of Microsoft served a couple of years ago as a warning to corporate information-meisters that you can have too much e-mail hanging around. Now, smart controllers of corporate knowledge weed out e-mail every 90 days or so, and only retain truly vital messages. Collateralized debt obligations. High-yield
John Halamka, MDCIO, CareGroup; Chairman, New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN)Role: Halamka was one of the conceivers and founding members of NEHEN. He is an evangelist as well for the creation of regional networks for exchanging patient information. Besides his duties at CareGroup, which is a member of NEHEN, and
Organization: New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN) Headquarters: Waltham, Mass. Phone: (781) 890-7446 Business: Cooperative electronic medical records network involving health care providers and payers in Boston and New England Size: Members operate 45 hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Mount Auburn. Three largest operators record $5.8 billion in annual revenue.