Author Archives: Adam Bazer

About Adam Bazer

Adam Bazer is Manager, Distance Education for HIMSS Media. His areas of responsibility include the HIMSS Virtual Events and HIMSS Webinars. Prior to his current role, Adam was Manager, Annual Conference Education, responsible for the call for proposal process and speaker management of education sessions at the HIMSS Annual Conference. You can reach Adam directly at adam.bazer@himssmedia.com

Selling Ourselves Health: A Consumer’s view of Patient Engagement

My mom is the best sales person I know.  She has been selling high-end jewelry for 20 years, and before that ran a bakery business from our home.  Beth, Ari and I stopped by her store this past Sunday to … Continue reading

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Interoperability Is the Paradigm Shift in Healthcare

Within our nation’s hospitals and doctors’ offices, marathons are being run.  Not along a peaceful or invigorating path, but between exam room 1 and 2, off to 4 and then over to 3.   Short shuffle steps around a colleague, as … Continue reading

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Dispatches from HIMSS13 Online

Every year, we work on making sure as many people as possible can be involved in the HIMSS Annual Conference, especially when it comes to participating in the countless educational sessions. This year, HIMSS13 Online is bigger than better than … Continue reading

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Ten Unexpected Reasons to Attend HIMSS13 Online

There is nothing like the HIMSS Annual Conference.  The first conference I worked was in 2006.  Watching the cavernous deserted exhibition hall in San Diego transform into a bustling metropolis of HIT commerce and camaraderie was a breathtaking experience.  So … Continue reading

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Paper Cuts and RAC Audits: Dreaming of a Paperless World

It was an afternoon ordinary as any other, as I brought in the mail.  Little did I know what awaited me. 

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An ACO of One: My Own Responsibilities as a Patient in an Accountable Care Model of Healthcare

It was on a blustery Dec. 28 afternoon, in the midst of the first row of the second box of chocolates, that I realized that it was time for the annual ritual of announcing my new year’s resolutions to my … Continue reading

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BYOD aka Finger Smudges on the Line Between Home and Work

Uber-CIO and all-around renaissance man (ex. 1, 2, 3) John Halamka gave a truly enlightening keynote at the November HIMSS Virtual Conference, available On Demand through the end of January.  He spoke about the general regulatory environment for healthcare CIOs, and the … Continue reading

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Connected Health Plus: Making Good Even Better

by Chuck Parker, HIMSS member, and Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance Good: Personal connected health, that is, the use of telecommunications and health management devices to collect and share an individual patients’ physiologic and lifestyle data. 

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Hello, My Name is Adam, and I Am a Geek: Admission of App Addiction

I admit it.  I am a geek.  Ask me about Star Trek.  Include me in discussion of pixel sizes and bit rates.  And please, please, please let me futz around with the latest tech toy that you got.

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Where Is Healthcare IT’s “Like” Button? The Power of Simple Ideas That Work

One of my favorite bloggers is John Lynn.   He and Andrew Sullivan are the only blog treats I give myself on my “try to disconnect” weekends.  This weekend, John wrote a great post about the Department of Veterans Affair’s Blue … Continue reading

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