So much for hoping for a reduction in the number of data breaches that we report on. This week, we covered three breaches.

You may notice a few changes with this issue. First, we have changed our name from CMIO to Clinical Innovation + Technology. This reflects the ever-growing responsibilities facing hospital leaders, as well as the increasing need for interdepartmental collaboration to deliver solutions that again, are geared to achieving that triple aim of improving care, improving the health of populations and reducing per capita costs.

September will always feel like a new start to me, no matter how far away I get from my own schooling. The laid-back summer attitude morphs into a need to organize, schedule and kick up productivity.

The ambulatory EMR adoption train has clearly left the station. Improved quality of care and communication have provided the initial fuel; however, meaningful use, pay for performance and data reporting requirements are whats on the third rail and truly powering adoption. For many providers, the urgency of these forces has encouraged them to lay the train track without a clear map of where they are headed, or what terrain to expect. So, I have this friend, a CMIO at a similar-sized institution, who has been implementing an ambulatory EMR for several years.

Healthcare Technology Management was a publication created to provide practical ideas and solutions regarding the management, procurement, service and support of healthcare technology. The magazine is today reborn as a section of Clinical Innovation + Technologyyoure looking at itand our commitment to the development of the healthcare technology manager remains as strong as ever.

With a curriculum vitae placing her at the summit of healthcare technology leadership in the U.S., Molly Joel Coye, MD, chief innovation officer for UCLA Health System, is well placed to survey the landscape and distinguish the evolving from the endangeredand that means not just technologies but also care-delivery processes.

When SSM Health Care, with 17 hospitals across Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma and Missouri, began integrating EHRs in 2008, clinical engineering (CE) played a big rolein the planning and implementation.

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, Shigeru Ehara, MD, heard his phone alarm unexpectedly go off. He was working in the radiology department at Iwate Medical University in Morioka, Japan, and discovered the alarm was part of an earthquake alert service, indicating a strong quake had occurred.