Daniel Barchi, CIO, Yale New Haven Health System & Yale School of Medicine, Chapter 1

Daniel Barchi, CIO, Yale New Haven Health System & Yale School of Medicine

About Yale New Haven Health System
Managing a dual CIO role
Leveraging Epic to align the health system & school of medicine
Going from 350 Epic users every day to 3500 users
Starting in the physician practices – smaller, more controlled environments
Importance of having a strong project manager
“EMRs are really just tools that standardize the way we practice”

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John Bosco, CIO, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Chapter 2

John Bosco, CIO, North Shore-LIJ Health System

Educating docs about HITECH
“This is not a time to rest.”
Allscripts Sunrise for inpatient, Enterprise for employed docs
“We were not early adopters of EHRs.”
The ripple effect of the ICD-10 delay
Staying positive during tough times
Who has it tougher — small community hospitals or large organizations?

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Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Health Care, Chapter 1

Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Health Care

About UMass Memorial
Allscripts ambulatory, Siemens Soarian acute, dbMotion for integration
Making a best-of-breed shop work — “It takes very, very smart people to maintain what we’ve built”
The state of Soarian ambulatory
Navigating vendor M&A
The critical CIO-general counsel relationship

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Time To Rethink EMR Design And User Interface

Dale Sanders, Senior Technology Advisor & CIO Mentor, Cayman Islands Health Services Authority

There’s a great new article in the March 2012 issue of The American Journal for Managed Care, “IT-Enabled Systems Engineering Approach to Monitoring and Reducing ADEs.” You can find it here. The point I’m trying to make in this blog, by drawing attention to this article, is this: it’s time for EMR vendors to rethink [...]

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KLAS: Electronic Record Growth Slow Outside the U.S.

International EMR market building, but slowly

Although there are plenty of vendors exploring the international space, the market for electronic patient records outside of the United States is still in the early stages, according to a new KLAS report — International EPR Market 2012: Multinational Vendor Footprints. The report, which is the first by KLAS to examine the global EMR market, [...]

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Dave Holland, CIO, Southern Illinois Healthcare, Chapter 3

Dave Holland, CIO, Southern Illinois Healthcare

Improving project prioritization
Meditech 5.6 upgrade
Getting the organization to realize “these are not IT projects”
From chief information officer to chief innovation officer
IT as an enabler
Implementing single sign-on

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Jack Wolf, CIO, Montefiore Medical Center, Chapter 1

Jack Wolf, CIO, Montefiore Medical Center

About Montefiore
Running a GE Healthcare IT shop
Montefiore’s clinical IT journey
Amalga, Caradigm, Qualibria
Thoughts on big-ticket enterprise EMR buys

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Is Your EHR More Like iPhone Or iTunes?

Paul Roemer, VP Client Strategy, Electronic Ink.

Times are perilous, and they ain’t a-changin.  As Europe focuses its attention on whether the Euro will become a collector’s item, and the Middle East eagerly awaits the chance to lower the amount it pays for air conditioning because of the surplus of electricity that will be available from all of Iran’s nuclear reactors, America [...]

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KLAS: Paragon’s Large Hospital Potential In Question

Does Paragon Work For Big Hospitals?

While McKesson has indicated it hopes to move some Horizon customer onto the Paragon platform, a number of product gaps and weaknesses still exist and there are still questions in providers’ minds about whether Paragon can scale to larger hospitals, particularly 400+ bed sites where it is still unproven, according to a new KLAS report [...]

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