Dell Launches Center for Entrepreneurs #DellWorld

Do you plan to start a business in 2013? Here's a snippet from a press release from today about the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs:

Dell today launched the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs, under the leadership of its Entrepreneur in Residence Ingrid Vanderveldt, a community designed by and for entrepreneurs. Building on Dell’s entrepreneurial heritage and spirit, the Center for Entrepreneurs creates a gateway to knowledge, solutions and opportunities for growing businesses. Founders at all stages of growth are invited to join this community to access:

• Resources: Assistance in identifying capital through Dell Financial Services and the Dell Innovators Credit Fund helps businesses of all sizes access the credit and leasing they need to invest in technology to fuel growth. Also included: webcasts, videos and case studies from Dell and industry experts.
• Expertise: Building on what Dell has learned through its entrepreneurial journey, the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, and Dell Founders’ Club are cultivating a vibrant community of entrepreneurs who connect with one another for new sources of financial and human capital, knowledge and markets.
• Solutions: Featuring entrepreneur success stories showing how businesses of all sizes and at all stages leverage cloud computing, virtualization, mobility, and data insights to differentiate from the competition, better serve their customers and grow.

Empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs

Following every economic downturn, entrepreneurs have emerged to create new businesses that jumpstart the global economy. According to a recent report by the Technology CEO Council (TCC), which Mr. Dell chairs, companies that use IT more effectively, especially for data driven decision making, show higher productivity and profitability than average companies.

Expand your social network by connecting with Dr. Harry Greenspun on LinkedIn

Dr. Harry Greenspun, formerly Chief Medical Officer at Dell, is now Senior Advisor, Healthcare Transformation and Technology at Deloitte.  He is also the author of Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery. Harry maintains a very active Facebook profile, but make sure you don't miss him on LinkedIn.

Connect with Harry Greenspun on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/harrygreenspun

He's a physician executive who is very connected, so you'll want to be in his network. In 2010, Modern Healthcare magazine named him one of the “50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare.”

Featured physician executive: Dr. Harry Greenspun

Each week, I feature a physician executive. This week's featured physician executive is Dr. Harry Greenspun. He's on Twitter (@HarryGreenspun) and Facebook.

Harry Greenspun, M.D., is the chief medical officer of the Dell Perot Systems healthcare group, providing strategic leadership with a clinical perspective. He has held a diverse range of clinical and executive roles across the healthcare industry, giving him a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities faced in health IT. Dr. Greenspun has also been named one of the Top 10 Healthcare IT Game Changers to Watch by ExecutiveBiz.com.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Greenspun has held many key roles in implementing company- and industry-wide policy. Prior to working for Dell Perot Systems, he served as chief medical officer for Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he provided subject matter expertise, thought leadership, and strategic direction for the company. More than a decade ago, Dr. Greenspun founded a company that tracked clinical outcomes in cardiac surgery, which later became the healthcare practice of an open source software company. 

He's been nominated for Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" and you can vote for him here: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/100mp

Walmart to Sell Digital Health Records

You've probably heard that Walmart is getting into the e-health record space by selling eClinicalWorks. This Electronic Health Record (EHR or EMR) is a CCHIT Certified system (for 2008) and includes a suite of several different options. According to the NY Times, this move by Walmart is to target small physician offices. Speaking of Walmart, have you noticed that they've gotten rid of the hyphen between Wal and Mart? Now they're just Walmart. Anyways, the bigger question remains: will more and more physicians embrace EMRs just because it's available from Walmart of Sam's Club? Plus, what about all those people who hate Dell computers? (I'm not one of them, but I seem to meet them all the time. Some people really have strong opinions about specific PC manufacturers. Maybe that will change with the new Dell Adamo.) With only 17% of the physicians using EHRs, there is a huge marketplace to sell and offer EHRs to those who may lack those strong computer skills. Once BestBuy gets involved in this competition, you'll start seeing a lot more of those "Geek Squad" vehicles around. If you're looking to break into the Health IT industry, maybe you should get a job at Walmart selling EHR solutions and acting as an EHR consultant. I'm sure that eClinicalWorks is bolstering their support staff and preparing for all those phone calls.