Gary Baldwin
Editorial Director
Gary has been covering health care since the early 1990s. Prior to rejoining Health Data Management in 2008, he served as technology editor for HealthLeaders Medi for nearly five years. At HealthLeaders, Gary won five national editorial recognition awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors. Gary also covered information technology for the American Medical Association’s weekly newspaper and has presented at numerous conferences. He has a masters degree in journalism from Roosevelt University, Chicago. gary.baldwin@sourcemedia.com
Recent Stories From This Author
Deadline Extended for I.T. Young Bloods Contest
May 22, 2012 The submission deadline for the first “Health I.T. Young Bloods” contest, sponsored by Health Data Management, has...
Dreams on Parade at Health 2.0 Event
May 16, 2012 There was a bit of a schizophrenic feel to the Health 2.0 conference earlier this week in Boston. Half the companies in...
ICD-10 Chills and Thrills
April 27, 2012 Last December, I prepared a cover story for our print magazine, “Here Comes Trouble,” that laid out the top ten fear...
The Nanny State and Health Reform
March 30, 2012 As I noted in my last blog, the debate over healthcare tends to slide into hyperbole and offer little in the way of insight...
Needed: Pragmatism, Not Polemics
March 20, 2012 Well, it seems that this powerful imagery has found its way into the health reform debate.
The Feds Are Listening
February 17, 2012 The delay of ICD-10 from October 2013 to some uncertain date suggests, first and foremost, that federal officials do not have...
Stories to Watch in 2012
January 4, 2012 The most significant story of course will be the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health reform plan.
Shoot ’em Up Videos Are Under the Microscope
December 1, 2011 The sheer scope of research areas driven by imaging is on grand display here at RSNA 2011. On Nov. 30, for example, I attended...
Image is Everything--Almost--at RSNA 2011
November 29, 2011 The massive medical imaging exhibition--an annual late-November, bone-chilling tradition here in Chicago--is off to a great...
An ACO by Any Other Name
October 27, 2011 Two presenters at the recent Medical Group Management Association annual meeting described their care delivery models in a way...
Hello Mac, Goodbye Virus
October 20, 2011 After a nasty virus virtually wiped out my compact travel computer, I decided to take a look at the Mac product line.
ACO Barriers
October 1, 2011 When it comes to accountable care organizations, St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare CEO C.R. Burke is bullish.
Innovation Under Fire?
August 29, 2011 These kind of events are a reporter’s dream—multiple speakers, with compelling stories to share, all gathered under...
HIE Challenge: ‘Breadth of subjects’
July 15, 2011 As I mentioned in my initial report covering the MetroChicago HIE, some three-fourths of Chicago-area hospitals have signed on...
The Power of a Chart
July 8, 2011 Recently I got a pointed reminder about the value of an electronic health record. My own physician—who was reviewing me...
Current Issue
Looking to build better care coordination, health systems are buying physician groups in droves. Making the deal work, however, requires careful management on the I.T. front.
