PODCAST: One-on-One w/Beaufort Memorial Hospital VP of IS & CIO Ed Ricks, Chapter 2

Ed Ricks, VP of IS & CIO, Beaufort Memorial Hospital

Though there are thousands of Meditech hospitals, only a handful are in the in the process of migrating from the Magic to 6.0 platform. Of course, those hospitals (and their CIOs) are being watched very closely by the Meditech community. One of those CIOs is Ed Ricks of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Ricks is not only taking his facility to 6.0 and going best of breed in the ED, but using a new integration engine to bring it all together. To gather some lessons learned for healthsystemCIO.com readers, editor Anthony Guerra recently chatted with Ricks.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

• Beaufort Memorial’s Acute/Ambulatory Landscape
• An approach to hospital/practice integration — Allscripts, Meditech & Summit (replaces Iatrics)
• Going niche — Medhost in the ED
• Best of suite — “We will stay with Meditech wherever possible“
• Discrete data — the hard part of integration
• Everything that is non-Meditech must get into Meditech
• Acute CPOE is “the pot of gold”
• Moving beyond the “green screen”
• Capturing ED data means capturing charge$
• The CIO, dollars and sense
• “It’s still a business and we still have to pay for this stuff”

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