Featured physician executive: Dr. Pawan Goyal

This week, we're featuring Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMSS. He is Chief Medical Officer of Federal Healthcare EDS (an HP Company).

Pawan Goyal is the director of healthcare informatics for EDS’ U.S. Veterans Affairs portfolio and is responsible for establishing the strategic direction in areas of health informatics and enterprise business transformation for an account of over 500 professionals supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). VA is globally recognized as a leader in both healthcare and in the adoption and use of electronic health records, and is the largest healthcare provider in the United States, serving 24.5 million veterans.

With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare delivery and management for large federal, state and local government contexts, Goyal has spent the last six years as senior business/functional analyst for the VA. An otolaryngologist by training, Goyal had 14 years of surgical practice in India prior to moving to the United States in 1998. As a recognized leader and subject matter expert on process re-engineering for healthcare and electronic health records interoperability, Goyal often serves as an author, panelist and public speaker in areas such as patient medical records and effective EHR institutionalization and utilization.

Register for the Stanford Summit and Medicine 2.0 at Stanford

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Stanford University
September 16, 2011 – September 18, 2011

The Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 is a special forum that is designed to complement - yet be distinct from - the two-day academically-focused Medicine 2.0 conference that will take place at Stanford Sept 17-18, 2011.

The Medicine 2.0 Fall Conference 2011 will be hosted in Silicon Valley, home to many of the world's preeminent technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, and others. The conference will be hosted by the Stanford University School of Medicine, and will be held at the school's brand new $90 million Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. Stanford University is located in Northern California, approximately 35 miles south of San Francisco.

Learn more about this upcoming conference here.

2011 Medscape physician compensation report

Are you curious about physician salary results? 

Medscape's 2011 Physician Compensation Report provides physicians insights on current trends regarding pay and hours worked. This comprehensive report represents responses from over 15,000 US physicians and offers details on who is earning how much by specialty, geographic location, practice type, sex and more.

• How much do physicians earn?
• Which practice settings earn the most?
• How much time is spent with patients?

Methodology

• Survey fielded to 455,000 US physicians
• Total respondents*: 15,794 US physicians across 22 specialty areas
• Fieldwork conducted by Medscape from February 2-March 30, 2011
• Data collected via third-party online survey collection site

Blending clinical medicine with entrepreneurship

I know several physicians who have full-time clinical careers but they also carve out time to explore entrepreneurial ventures. There are certain medical specialties that allow you to have more flexibility with your schedule so that you can blend patient care with entrepreneurial spirit. Those specialties include: emergency medicine, anesthesia, hospital medicine, and urgent care medicine. You can go into family medicine or internal medicine and find yourself with a flexible schedule if you choose to work in shifts (urgent care, hospitalist, etc.).

Having a blended career that includes elements of direct patient care plus entrepreneurship allows you to have a stable source of income (clinical practice) but also lets you express your creativity and innovation as you start a company or develop a business model.

Simplify Health IT Job Search with HIMSS Career Services Center

04 May 2011
Simplify Health IT Job Search with HIMSS Career Services Center

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health information technicians and medical records professionals held 172,500 jobs in 2008 with 39 percent in hospitals; by 2018, a 20 percent growth is expected resulting in 207,600 jobs.

Knowing where and how to find available jobs is a challenge any job seeker faces, including graduates of the Office of the National Coordinator’s HIT Workforce Development programs. The HIMSS Career Services Center is supporting this initiative with the enhancement of HIMSS JobMine® and the addition of a section dedicated to the ONC HIT Workforce Development Program, where program graduates can post resumes and find health IT positions posted by potential employers.

2011 AMWA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Conference

2011 Annual Mid-Atlantic AMWA Chapter Conference

Date: Friday, 20 May 2011
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn

7301 Waverly Street
Bethesda, MD 20814-3330
(301) 654-8111

Courses:

• Bart Harvey will present CP/EW #3008, “Making Effective Slides,” and ADV #729, “Understanding Sample Size and Study Power”;
• Charmaine Cummings will present ES 2006, “Essential Ethics for Medical Communicators”; and
• Tom Gegeny will present ES/EW/FL #2012, “The Internet: How and Where to Find the Information You Seek.”

Recent ACPE collaboration with HIMSS

There's no question that information technology issues are playing an increasingly larger role in the jobs of all physician leaders. In light of this, ACPE teamed up for the first time this year with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which recently held its annual convention and exhibition in Orlando, Florida. All ACPE members were offered complimentary registration for the convention so they could participate in HIMSS' first-ever physician executive forum. About 100 ACPE members took advantage of the offer, including ACPE Board Member Michael Bakerman, MD, FACC, MMM, CPE, FACPE, Chief Medical Information Officer at UMass Memorial Health Care.

Bakerman said there's value in visiting the more than 900 vendors that exhibit at HIMSS.

“You get a sense where the technology is moving to," he said. "They’re showing you new models, new demos. You see the possible applications of the technology.”