Favorite Links for 12/23/2011

Sorry for the delay in publishing this week's links but I was caught in the hustle and bustle of the holidays yesterday.

• 95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness http://t.co/8FWEJ7JH
• @garyvee: my never seen @cnn interview http://t.co/dKEfsg98
• Smartphone Addiction - How To Get Rid Of It? http://t.co/C1S9edVm
• WSJHealth: Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books http://t.co/Ai6NHgWG
• NFL To Stream Super Bowl XLVI To iPhone And iPad http://t.co/ovIQQ2iA
• @garyvee: Sharing is caring -> http://t.co/z5FbTEOx
• @garyvee: Social sites have made the world small -  http://t.co/F3CprKrm
• @garyvee: Stop doing shit you hate for a living -> http://t.co/JHUSGPMd
• @garyvee: can we make a deal in 2012? Lets cheer Making money MORE THAN raising it? http://t.co/p0swfrrH

Next Friday's links will be the best of list that have showed up in my Twitter and Google+.

Favorite Links for 12/16/2011

There were quite a few good links to pass along for this week.

• 13 way to use iMovie in the classroom http://t.co/AlyKGQcp
• Five Easy Ways To Tell If An Organization Is Really Values-Driven - http://t.co/g5pKZbCC
• Five Styles of Gen X Leaders: Which One Are You? - http://t.co/qyeneu9f
• Some times IT, in their effort to control everything, stifles use of tech. - http://t.co/SFQxztaG
• @garyvee: if u watch this you will not to sleep -> http://t.co/wPaJDFrk
• 9 Steps to a Daily Blogging Schedule http://t.co/ekQQo1xp
• Some the Best Wealth Building Books ever written http://t.co/lSDEPYD6
• Stop-motion animation comes to your iPad 2 with Smoovie: http://t.co/wcXNniTE7 Successful Leadership Practices of Today's Top Hospital CIOs: Therefore, CIOs need to work... http://t.co/1ezi6Dbo
• 5 ways to reduce security breaches in #healthcare http://t.co/ZF74JVcZ
• 23 Questions with Legendary Hacker @KevinMitnick on @Hak5: http://t.co/oTV2vCnk

Favorite Links 12/9/2012

Here's this week's favorite links that are from a wide variety of subjects.

• Leadership Reading List: 20 books you might not have read - but should: http://t.co/F6S827LN
• ECIOForum: My Top Six `Top Ten' 2012 prediction lists http://t.co/YOfUIXWY
• CIOsConnect: Citrix: Desktop virtualization makes good security sense http://t.co/DyyDNsla
• Google introduces Google Currents news app [video] http://t.co/4sEsMp5V
• TheLeaderLab: How Can Games Drive Employee Engagement? http://t.co/bsAGWodE

Quote of the week.

• The most successful people see an opportunity in every problem. via@LeadToday

My Favorite Links for 12/2/2011 - An Ode @EricDBrown

For a while now, I have been following Eric Brown via RSS and Twitter (@EricDBrown) for a while now.  One of the things I have always enjoyed from Eric is his weekly publication of links.  Based upon enjoying these links, I have decided to publish my weekly links not only to share but for me to track what I found interesting over time.  Most of these will links will be technical in subject but every once in a while there will be an odd-ball or running related link.

So here's the first week's links.

• A strong BYOD policy should be SOP http://goo.gl/fb/sf3Tp
• The President of CIO magazine shares his Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2012 http://bit.ly/rwtUud 
• iPads in the enterprise: CEO ego is driving adoption: iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs an...http://bit.ly/sLk0PS
• CIO says supporting iPhone and iPad led to 92% reduction in broken devices: After switching to support Apple mo...http://bit.ly/vGDN7k
• Google's latest research digs into how #tablets are used. Interesting takeaway: multitasking is huge http://tabtim.es/7i 

Odd - Ball of the Week

• Who new that "calc" was this powerful.  Get the most out of calculator - calculate fuel economy, lease payments, and mortgage payments http://bit.ly/uqktit

My Visit to Ball State's CICS Program

On November 12th I was invited to speak at Ball State's CICS Placement Seminar for it's graduate students.  The goal of this seminar is to prepare the students for their upcoming entrance into the IT work environment.  It was an honor to share the platform with the individuals listed below and I was amazed that all of our presentations intertwined although we had never talked beforehand.  My talk, titled "After CICS Begins Now", focused on making sure the students are taking time now to think about what they want to do after graduation.  I focused a portion of this presentation on building your career brand via social media.



Beau King of ATT presented on personal Salesmanship
Branden Bute of Ball State presented on Job Mining
Todd Hollowell & Amy Reid presented on Resume Building

Good luck to all the students upon their completion of CICS.

Beyond the EMR: Improving Patient Care - Microsoft Healthcare Briefing

Rich Nero - Healthcare Solutions Group presents Beyond the EMR with a focus on Amalga. Provided below are some high level notes from his presentation

To date, Microsoft has spent 1 Billion on Healthcare Solutions Group.

Microsoft's goal is to fill the gap to provide useful information that is stored in clinical systems and data warehouses, this gap is filled by Microsoft's Amalga solution.

Amalga's goal is to the streamline operations, coordinate care, and engage patients.

5 Areas where Microsoft believes Amalga can provide value:

• Improve Patient Safety & Quality
• Readmissions - solution is Readmission Manager
• Early Warning Score
• Revenue & Cost Optimization
• Compliance Tracking and Reporting
• Coordinating Care Across Providers
• Engaging Patients In Care
• Care Transitions
• Chronic Disease Management

Items in BOLD are their primary focus today and where Microsoft has use cases.

Essentially Amalga is a Business Intelligence solution that Healthcare focused.  Its advantage is that it is a platform versus a bunch of individual solutions.  The challenge they have is that some of their solutions are already built into clinical systems.