This is the topic of my new blog post on HealthWorks Collective. Already received lots of traffic on Twitter and lots of views. Would like to see more about mobile standards in health care from Motorcycle Guy and others.

I am glad that Delicious is still around and being enhanced. I have used it for years to organize and tag my bookmarks. Now with almost 1200 bookmarks and several hundred tags, I often search my links to find a resource for a presentation or article. Recent links include:

• West Wireless Health Institute which has a good handle on new care delivery models
• Secondary Uses Service, description and and access. | The NHS Information Centre - glad to see the National Health Services is utilizing EMR data for quality and research
• National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences or NCATS - the new NIH center replacing the NCRR which inlcudes the Clinical and Translational Science Awards which I am now a part of
• A post on O’Reilly Radar - Epatients: The hackers of the healthcare world
• Eye on FDA - the new FDA blog
• CIRD – Partners HealthCare Clinical Informatics R & D

Like others (see Daniel Kraft) , I have my own opinions about what trends will be most influential for health IT in 2012.

• Big Data and real-time analytics and decision support – IBM Watson and Explorys are in this space, others will follow and adoption will grow enabled by cloud computing, NOSQL/Hadoop and natural language processing
• Continued focus on EMR adoption as more health systems pursue meaningful use. This will again be the main focus at HIMSS as well as other conferences
• Social media in health care will continue to grow among patients as the e-Patient movement continues to gain in strength and public awareness and as advocates like the Reshape Innovation Center find creative uses to influence the future of health
• Mobile health and apps usage will expand but what is needed is a way to integrate personal health information, such as, PHRs and apps that promote wellness and disease management. For health care professionals, apps and mobile devices need to be integrated into clinical workflow rather than being an adjunct or distraction
• Research will be further enabled by EMR data as more academic medical centers develop data warehouses for research and quality studies and as initiatives like QueryHealth make it possible to combine data across systems and states using health information exchange and other tools

There are many more but these are the primary one’s I will be following.

There are many top 10 predictions for 2012 out there. I could probably add my own for eHealth and mHealth.
These 10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2012 from Tableau Software apply to healthcare as much as any business.

In addition to having a great year traveling and presenting, I had additional accomplishments:

• Appointed as the Co-director for Biomedical Research Informatics for the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative, an NIH funded program through the Case Medical School
• Joined the Editorial Board of Tech Now Briefs of the American Association of Medical Colleges
• Invited to contribute to a theme issue on social media for Frontiers from the American College of Healthcare Executives
• Became a featured blogger for HealthWorks Collective
• Appointed as a reviewer for HIMSS 2012 abstracts – a new role for me
• Authored chapter on eResearch to a book on medical informatics to be ePublished in 2012
• Celebrated 30 years as an employee at Cleveland Clinic
• Leading a project to develop a clinical data warehouse for research
• Approaching 1000 connections on LinkedIn (969)
• 2881 followers on Twitter
• Klout score hovering around 42
• Invited to be on the advisory board of a health related startup

It was a big year for traveling to conferences:

• February – HIMSS Annual Conference in Orlando – spoke at the Social Media center twice and presented on a panel on social media
• March – AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Summit in San Francisco. Two podium presentations (CKD Registry and REDCap business model) and two posters
• April – attended TEDx Maastricht in the Netherlands and a side trip to UMC Radboud in Nimegen.
• April – ACRT meeting (Association for Clinical Research Training) in Washington, DC – panel presentation on REDCap.
• May – Patient Experience Summit at Cleveland Clinic with Enoch Choi presenting
• June – consulting at a hospital in Michigan on data warehousing
• September – Medicine 2.0 Congress in Palo Alto, CA. Poster presentation
• October – American Association of Medical Colleges meeting on Big Data in Washington, DC
• October – Clinical and Translational Science Awards Informatics meeting at the National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD – poster presentation
• October – Panel at Case Medical School, Cleveland on Social Media in Clinical Trials
• November – Senior Workers Conference in Minneapolis, MN – presentation on Social Media and Electronic Medical Records
• December – Center for Health Services Research and Policy at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, on Disease Registries using EMR Data