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Competing for talent in the Chicago area
Encouraging staff to get Epic-certified
Keeping morale high — “It’s our job to keep them wanting to work here”
Finding the right mobile device management strategy
“You are the sum of your experiences”
Dealing with multiple vendors
“I love my job. This is the best gig.”
“Maybe he’ll go back to sleep,” I said, in what I knew was an egregious act of wishful thinking. “No, he’s not going back to sleep and, if we don’t get him soon, he’s going to throw up,” responded by wife, as our infant took his crying up a notch. It was about 4 AM. [...]
There are two quotes about parenthood that I really like. The first, from Jackie Kennedy, is: “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” The second, from the novel Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, is: “It’s the one job where the better you are, the [...]
About West Georgia Health
Being a Meditech 6.0 beta site
Offering Allscripts Professional to independent docs
“Lunch-and-lunch” sessions for physicians
Lessons learned from attesting to MU
“Pulling our quality measures was one of the most difficult things”
Assembling an MU task team
Outside pressures, restraints, or issues, can force you to take a sudden career “time-out.” A loss of a job, a family crisis, or another personal event can be a cause for gap in your job history. How you handle these potential gaps will be important when looking for a new job. Reasons for “time-outs” or [...]
Change is never easy, but at a time when health systems face more requirements than ever before with quickly approaching deadlines, CIOs are finding that the ability to switch gears is a must. And the group that’s putting up the biggest fight, according to the May healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey, is independent physicians. In the survey, more [...]
Reacting to the ICD-10 postponement — “They ripped the rug out.”
Frustration with regulations
Participating in the MetroChicago HIE
Concerns with the HIE funding model — “Hospitals already have a strain on their budget”
Investing in education and training for staff
Using in-house talent to staff Epic rollout
“When we lose good people, we’re able to replace them with good people”
Using feedback to improve the IT rounding program
Learning crisis management as a naval officer
Going from biomed to IT
“It’s not about bits and bytes; it’s about working to create solutions to problems”
Dealing with the challenges of an academic environment
Making the move from VA to CT
“I wouldn’t trade it for the world”
“We’re dead today,” Jim told me, shaking his head, “I’ve got three people out, and we can barely handle things with our full crew. It’s going to be chaos.” Now, I’ve been in Jim’s bagel shop when it was packed (and I’ve written about Jim before), so I could easily conjure up the image of [...]
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