Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Chapter 2

The art of vendor disengagement
Disease management/business intelligence
“What’s the risk of this patient getting what kind of disease?”
The importance of analytics
Homecare/mobile technologies

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 3

Working with Merge Healthcare for image exchange
Moving from a children’s hospital to an adult environment
Going from single facility to multi-hospital system
A focus on leadership development
Going CHCIO

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KLAS Breaks Down BI Vendors

BI Tools Help Make Sense Of It All

With payment reform making business decisions ever more intricate, a new KLAS report, Business Intelligence: Making Cents of Performance, seeks to offer insight into the marketplace.   “Analytics reveals patterns, anomalies, key variables, and relationships to better facilitate intelligent decision-making and will be essential to a hospital’s ability to survive in the years to come,” [...]

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Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 3

*ICD-10 prep — “It’s changing the way people look at things”
*Remote hosting with Cerner
*Dimensional Insight to “tap into the knowledge”
*From helpless to helpful desk
*The benefits of a diverse background

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Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 1

Jim Burton, SVP/CIO, East Jefferson General Hospital

*About EJGH
*Disaster recovery a top priority
*”Build it new rather than trying to touch it up”
*The hospital selects Cerner IT Works
*Aspen Advisors helps with the selection

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TEXT/PODCAST: Best in KLAS 2010 Revealed (One-on-One w/President Adam Gale, Chapter 2)

In its end-of-year report – 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services – KLAS finds Epic is the top-ranked overall software vendor, with a performance score of 87.0 out of 100, followed by Picis and Philips. The top-rated overall services firm is Hayes Management (90.5), followed by Vitalize Consulting Solutions Inc. [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Cindy Peterson, VP & CIO, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Chapter 3

For the last five years, it’s been full speed ahead for the IT team at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. Under the leadership of Cindy Peterson, that “full speed” has included implementing dozens of applications from the organization’s core clinical vendor — Meditech — along with many of the ancillary technologies that give CPOE a [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 3

While just about every CIO in healthcare can be described as intelligent, only a handful deserve to be called wise. One of those is undoubtedly M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Lynn Vogel. And Vogel is not the kind of CIO to keep all that wisdom to himself. As such, he’s an active educator in both the university and industry spheres — the latter as an instructor in CHIME’s popular CIO Boot Camps. To learn more about Vogel’s take on the trends roiling healthcare — and his work at MD Anderson — healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently caught up with the Texas-based CIO.

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/ El Camino Hospital CIO Greg Walton, Chapter 2

Implementing a few clinical systems isn’t going to get you applause at El Camino Hospital. That’s because the organization has “been there, done that,” implementing the first CPOE system some 40 years ago. Considering that tough crowd, the CIO role isn’t for newcomers, and Greg Walton is no newcomer. With 40 years in the business [...]

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