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Learning To Tune Out Extraneous Information

Paul Roemer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:09:52 +0000

To read and complete this post, you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears from which to snack. The following problem was on the final exam in my 11th grade physics class. Let us give this a shot and then see if we [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 16 – Preparation Pays Off

Jorge Grillo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:18 +0000

Spending New Year’s Eve supporting a Meditech go-live is not exactly how most people define fun, but it is how many at our hospital spent transitioning from 2011 to 2012. I heard someone state, “Wow, this go-live is just like Y2K; a non-event.” What most CIOs will tell you is that the main reason Y2K [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 15 – A Time Crunch In The Final Month

Jorge Grillo — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:35:14 +0000

“4 days to go live” — those words can instill fear into even the most seasoned CIO if the comfort level that everything is ready to go is not there. Luckily for me, I have a great team and, while there are still minor concerns, we are where we need to be for a successful [...]

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Your EHR Works As Designed, And That’s The Problem

Paul Roemer — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

What could we have done differently, is the question I hear from many of the healthcare executives with whom I speak about the productivity loss resulting from their EHR. My answer, nothing. I am willing to bet that in most cases your EHR was implemented correctly. I am just as willing to bet that the [...]

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Why Is Epic The KLASiest Vendor?

Vince Ciotti — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:59:21 +0000

The results are in: KLAS just released its “Best In KLAS” vendor scores, and guess who won in almost every category? It’s an “epic” landslide, with the folks from Verona winning in 27 of 23 categories (only weak in Time & Attendance and PACS…) and scoring an amazing 12.7 on KLAS’ 10-point scale… or something [...]

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Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:35:02 +0000

Customer concerns Helping hospitals lower costs Lessons from Horizon Enterprise Resource Manager Souerwine's approach Making the decision for change

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McKesson Horizon, McKesson Paragon And Mental Labels

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:44:12 +0000

“I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I still don’t understand.” Though I don’t recall the year, I distinctly remember uttering those words at a past HIMSS conference during one of the countless “speed-dating” sessions journalists have with vendors. Perhaps because these meet-and-greets are so short, they take on a very intense “get-to-the-point” [...]

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Epic, MaxIT Top Best In KLAS Report

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:50:26 +0000

Epic was the top-ranked overall software vendor with an 87.1 out of 100 in the recently released 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report. MaxIT Healthcare garnered top ratings for professional services, scoring an 88.7. The report notes that some systems have more successful go lives than others. Segments with the [...]

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Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:10:37 +0000

Running Meditech/ChartLogic, Going Epic (go-live 2012) Cost/benefit of going with Epic Integrating the independents/HIE Managing resources, project prioritization

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The Real Reason Your EHR Failed, And What To Do About It

Paul Roemer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:45:11 +0000

With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing. To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability. EHR we learned, is a [...]

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Laishy Williams-Carlson, VP/CIO, Bon Secours Health System, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:38:26 +0000

Deploying Epic throughout the health system Balancing optimization versus implementation "I think one of the best decisions our organization ever made was going with Epic" Baking in benefits realization

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 14 – Coming Down To The Wire

Jorge Grillo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:12:05 +0000

When I worked for the military we used to say that we train today so we don’t bleed tomorrow. The same is true in our journey to a Meditech 6.x go-live. Over the past months, I have written 14 articles about our journey to Meditech 6.x. Much of the material has focused on our experiences [...]

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KLAS: Meditech 6.0 Leaves ‘Em Wanting

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:27:23 +0000

After years of anticipation at the coming of Version 6.0, some Meditech clients are canceling go lives mid-implementation and trialing competing products, according to a new report from KLAS — MEDITECH V.6 2011: Expectations Meet Reality. Though Meditech v.6 is live at over 50 sites with another 150 contracted, the report points to a “premature [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 13 – An Exercise In Timing and Trajectory

Jorge Grillo — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:30:52 +0000

As summer moves into fall, we progress from dictionary build to a greater testing focus. For 6.06 Service Release 1 (SR1), which Meditech loaded for us, there are over 8008 Meditech Development Tracking System test scenarios that need to be addressed. Many of these may not apply to your environment, as they may be Canadian [...]

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Epic First Impressions

Adam Gale — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:22:44 +0000

Ten years ago, I was at an Epic user conference in Madison, WI. This year, I ventured back to see what has changed over the past decade. Thirteen years ago I had my first interaction with Epic. I was trying to understand the difference between MedicaLogic (now GE Centricity EMR), Epic, and several other players. [...]

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Prepping For Meditech Medication Verification

Roger Neal — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Well, it’s been a couple of months since my last post and I’ve spent an enormous amount of time working through issues and changes proposed by our strike team. Things on our project are getting better and better, but we still have plenty of challenges. As well, with summer out of the way and all [...]

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Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:04:11 +0000

The Soarian implementation Measuring up to Meaningful Use "My concern is can the industry as a whole support the change being forced on it?" The art of vendor disengagement "ACO is not on my front burner right now"

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 12 – Weighing The Risks Of A Holiday Upgrade

Jorge Grillo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:27:40 +0000

On Aug. 23 we received our Meditech 6.06 upgrade. The decision to do the upgrade was not an easy one, as the fact that Meditech stated it would require an additional 10 weeks of testing pushed our go live from Oct. 1 of this year to Jan. 1 of next. (but I will discuss that [...]

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Meditech, What The Heck?

Adam Gale — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:18 +0000

Sorry, living in Utah you get a lot of “hecks” and “darns.” But seriously, what the heck is going on with version 6? You know, this is the Meditech that had essentially owned the market for mid-sized hospitals and basically printed money in the basement as hospitals flocked their way. When you have nearly 2,000 [...]

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Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:20:50 +0000

Actively acquiring physician practices A new Siemens Soarian customer Looking at NextGen on the practice side "Siemens is evaluating their ambulatory strategy" No Stark, but facilitating HIE connectivity for the independents

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 11 – As Go-Live Nears, Challenges Mount

Jorge Grillo — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:47:59 +0000

As we get closer to the planned dual processing testing (scheduled for August), there seems to be no rest for the weary. As you can imagine, we find ourselves busier than ever and discovering minor challenges that need to be overcome. Add to this the implementation of ancillary systems and continued rollout of eCW (Boy, [...]

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Standardization Lies Beyond The Clinical Realm

Paul Roemer — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:55:14 +0000

As a parent I’ve learned there are two types of tasks — those my children won’t do the first time I ask them, and those they won’t do no matter how many times I ask them. Here’s the segue. Let’s agree for the moment that workflows can be parsed into two groups — Easily Repeatable [...]

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Charles Colander, VP/CIO, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:13:52 +0000

*Moving to a new building *A Meditech C/S 5.6 shop ("6.0 is not on our horizon at this point") *NextGen in the owned practices (Phytel layered on top) *eClinicalWorks in the mix *No LSS? "I think the industry's spoken on that one"

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KLAS Finds Desire For Integrated Suites Driving CIS Purchases

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:08:23 +0000

While Meaningful Use dollars are driving adoption of clinical information systems, the desire for integrated software suites, across which data can easily flow, is driving the selection of particular vendors, according to a new report from KLAS which looks at hospitals over 200 beds — Clinical Market Share 2011: Is Stimulus Money Still Stimulating? “As [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 10 – Prioritization And Resource Management

Jorge Grillo — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:53:17 +0000

Decisions and conflicting priorities seem to be the norm as our dictionary building gets closer to consolidated testing. We now find ourselves with lots of decisions to make, lessons learned from ancillary system go-lives, and other issues. Let’s start with lessons learned. We just went live on our ED application. From previous posts you may [...]

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Tucson Medical Center Gets Stage 7 Stamp

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:56:29 +0000

Tucson Medical Center has been awarded the highest level of achievement (Stage 7) of its EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) by HIMSS Analytics. EMRAM is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. As of June 15, Tucson Medical Center is one of 57 hospitals, or 1 percent of the more than 5,000 hospitals [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 9 – Chickens And Eggs

Jorge Grillo — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:59:26 +0000

It is said that timing is everything. This is just as true in our 6.x implementation as elsewhere in life. Also in terms of timing, one can ask what came first: the chicken or the egg. The 6.x version of that same question is what comes first: dictionary build or dictionary team training. As stated [...]

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Kirk Larson, VP/CIO, Children’s Hospital Central California, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:22:01 +0000

*About Children's Hospital *Running Meditech C/S 5.6.4, likely upgrading to 5.6.5 *No defined path, no 6.0 *Going live with CPOE this summer *The ambulatory strategy — no LSS

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Ken Gilles, CIO, West Region, and Associate Corporate CIO, Essentia Health, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:55:34 +0000

*About Essentia health *Turning three regions into one enterprise *From Innovis to Essentia *Going full-boat Epic (Lawson for financials, supply chain, etc) *Measuring up to Meaningful Use — "We have engaged the administrative team to make this the top priority of the organization"

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 8 — Dictionary Dilemmas

Jorge Grillo — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:39:34 +0000

Well, we are knee deep in dictionary build, so this month’s article will focus a lot on Billing/Accounts Receivable (BAR) and Patient Care Services (PCS). As previously stated, we are taking this opportunity to reevaluate all our processes and existing dictionary structure. I will also discuss how the changes we are looking at impact the [...]

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Breaking Down an Epic Versus Cerner Selection

Vince Ciotti — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:44:26 +0000

Hey Vince & Elise, I read with great interest your excellent article on which acute EMR vendors have the most robust and integrated ambulatory EMR products. I was hoping you could take me on a deeper dive as far as a Epic vs Cerner head-to-head matchup goes. Let’s say I’m a best-of-breed IDN looking to [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 7 — Pay Now and Pay Later?

Jorge Grillo — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:30:13 +0000

There is an old saying that states, “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.” For those who are new to the Meditech contracting model it is important to note that, unlike some other vendors, Meditech’s implementation fees are based on a bundled (not time and materials) approach.

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Intermountain Healthcare and EHRs

Dale Sanders — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:59:00 +0000

Before we go too far in assuming that you need an EHR to achieve what Intermountain has, in terms of lowering costs and improving clinical outcomes, it’s worth drilling down a little further. It is Intermountain’s billing, registration, and case mix systems that enable much of what the organization achieves … and virtually every healthcare [...]

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Ed Collins, VP & CIO, Martin Memorial Health Systems, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:25:40 +0000

While many CIOs have found the rush to meet Meaningful Use unpleasant, Ed Collins has found it invigorating. In fact, Collins says he doesn’t think the strides Martin Memorial has made would be possible without the Stage 1 attestation deadline in hand. Today, Collins is knee-deep in an Epic rollout, a journey the organization embarked [...]

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 6 — Building Towards an Uncertain Future

Jorge Grillo — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:16:39 +0000

In this month’s blog, training sessions are in full swing. Also meetings with outside consultants have started, and they are starting to supplement the gaps in the Meditech program. PCS has had their training, and here are some of the notes the consultant has identified for us to keep in mind:

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John Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:37:41 +0000

With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which products are “go-forward,” which customer segments are best suited to the vendor’s offerings, and which industry regulations will [...]

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What if Facebook and Amazon Built an EMR?

Dale Sanders — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:43:05 +0000

Below are my screen mock-ups, based on Facebook’s and Amazon’s user interfaces. I borrow ideas from them because the metaphors fit healthcare quite nicely, but also because the user interfaces on today’s EMRs are abominable, and adoption rates are terrible (without financial coercion) as a result. People flock to Facebook and Amazon by the millions, without [...]

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Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:49:49 +0000

Reading the healthcare IT tea leaves is telling Roger Neal a few things. First off, they’re telling him a close-knit relationship between his hospital and the independent physicians which send it patients is key. They’re also telling him that tight integration which facilitates seamless data flow among his applications is becoming all important. While interfaces [...]

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John Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:24:55 +0000

Fast and easy are two words only the uninitiated would use to describe a core clinical HIT system selection, and John Gaede is certainly not one of them. That’s because Gaede recently went through the rigors of crafting a vision, finding partners and hitting the market. And hit the market he did, scouring not [...]

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Beth Fredette, CIO, The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:10:07 +0000

Long before HITECH made its way into a bill that aimed to save the country from economic collapse, Children’s Medical Center of Dayton was on its road toward advanced clincials. And for a partner, it chose Epic. With less than 200 beds, the organization took advantage of the dispensation that vendor affords pediatric hospitals, and [...]

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

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:42:45 +0000

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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TEXT/PODCAST – KLAS Perception Report Portends MU Winners and Losers

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:30:02 +0000

With Meaningful Use requirements in mind, hospitals with fewer than 150 beds are focusing less on traditional community CIS vendors and more on large hospital CIS vendors, according to a new KLAS report. The first KLAS CIS perception report to include community hospital data — 2010’s CIS Perception 2010: Vendors Bridge the Size Gap — finds that smaller hospitals are currently considering Meditech, Cerner, McKesson Paragon, and Epic more often than traditional community CIS vendors CPSI, Healthland, HMS, Keane, and Siemens MedSeries4.

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TEXT/PODCAST: Texas Health Taps Social Media to Promote EHR (One-on-One w/CMIO Ferdinand Velasco, M.D.)

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:01:03 +0000

What good is implementing EHRs if nobody knows about it? Not much, according to Texas Health Resources, a 24-hospital health system located in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. (click on the player at the bottom of this article to hear the Podcast) To makes sure employees, clinicians and the public are aware of the massive implementation [...]

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CIO Fired After Others May Have Accessed Her EHR

Gerry Higgins — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:44:09 +0000

A prominent CIO of a regional hospital system encountered the limitations of HIPAA and so-called “Protected Health Information (PHI)” when her boss fired her after a short medical leave of absence. After years working without taking vacation, a family catastrophe that affected her health prompted her to take a medical leave of absence. She had [...]

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PODCAST: Mike Hibbard, CIO, Mercy Health Partners, Discusses His CHIME Survey Results, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:01:43 +0000

Crafting a strategy to bring affiliated, but independent, community physicians up on an EMR is a challenge all large health systems are dealing with. The problem for CIOs is that almost all are doing it in a slightly different way. From which applications to offer, to varying subsidization models, to the thorny problem of ongoing [...]

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PODCAST – KLAS: Epic, Cerner Dominate CIS Landscape

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:00:41 +0000

Nearly 70 percent of CIS purchases in 2009 by hospital over 200 beds were an Epic or Cerner integrated solution, according to a new KLAS report, "CIS Purchase Decisions: Riding the ARRA Wave." In 2009, Eclipsys, GE, McKesson Horizon, and QuadraMed all lost more hospitals than they gained, according to the Orem, Utah-based company. Although they did not realize the same increases as Epic and Cerner, Meditech and Siemens both saw limited growth of their currently marketed solutions, KLAS found.

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Kern Medical Center CIO Bill Fawns, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:50:20 +0000

As one of the few healthcare CIOs who didn’t grow up in the industry, Bill Fawns may be a bit more willing to look at different solutions to his organization’s software issues. And while Medsphere’s OpenVista technology was born and raised in the VA, it’s still seen by many lifers as the unconventional choice. Perhaps [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System CIO Will Weider, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:06:18 +0000

Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, [...]

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KLAS: CIOs Must Consider Total Cost of Ownership

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:21:32 +0000

Sticker price is only one, and may not even be the most important, factor to consider when evaluating an EMR purchase, according to a new report from KLAS — Acute Care EMR, Getting Your Money’s Worth: The Overall Experience. Those other factors include unexpected costs, physician usability, missed delivery dates, response time, stability and workflow interruptions. So buyers may find though they can "afford" to buy a particular solution, they can't afford to own it or be successful with it in other ways, such as achieving significant adoption of CPOE.

Source: KLAS: CIOs Must Consider Total Cost of Ownership on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

CHIME Issues EHR Implementation Guide for CIOs

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:32:01 +0000

CHIME has released a detailed guide on the implementation of EHRs, which covers all steps from initial planning through the final documentation of results. On Wednesday, August 25 at 1 p.m. EST, CHIME will conduct a public webinar, highlighting some of the guide's key findings. The webinar will feature insights from guide contributor Edward Marx, CIO of Texas Health Resources, who will be on hand to discuss key premises and answer questions. To register now, click here.

Source: CHIME Issues EHR Implementation Guide for CIOs on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Fremont Area Medical Center Director of Hospital IS (CIO) Richard Beran, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:18:08 +0000

Almost overnight, it seems, the qualifications for being considered a top CIO have changed. No longer do you get a pat on the back for successfully implementing a hospital information system, supporting EMR installations in affiliated practices or even achieving high levels of CPOE and clinician engagement. Now, that's all stakes to play. Today, you've got to also tie it all together with an HIE that can then plug into whatever the feds construct as the National Health Information Network. Well, Richard Beran, director of hospital information systems at Freemont Area Medical Center, has all those balls in the air, and more. Beran just upgraded his Cerner Millennium software, struck a Stark deal with eClinicalWorks for the employed and independent docs, and is working with Lawson (HealthVision) and Initiate (IBM) to bring it all together.

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Fremont Area Medical Center Director of Hospital IS (CIO) Richard Beran, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 4

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:30:16 +0000

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 [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 4 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Providence Health & Services (Washington Region) CIO Curt Kwak, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:52:30 +0000

Integrity-based leadership may be something talked up in executive training sessions, but it’s put into practice by Curt Kwak, CIO of the Washington Region at Providence Health & Services. And the qualities of transparency, honesty and fairness which are so close to Kwak’s heart have come in handy as he says goodbye to incumbent vendors [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Providence Health & Services (Washington Region) CIO Curt Kwak, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:26:36 +0000

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.

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:30:40 +0000

The days of associating small hospitals with low-tech facilities are slowly fading in the past. One reason is that the small, including critical access, hospitals (CAHs) are not exempt from the HITECH programs carrots … or sticks. But sometimes being small does mean being resource constrained and, in that environment, doing any kind of rip [...]

Source: One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

How to Revive a Failed EHR Implementation

Paul Roemer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:44:48 +0000

The more I talk with hospital executives the more convinced I am that one way to improve the quality and acceptance of the EHR is being overlooked. A hospital EHR is an incredibly complex system, a system that has the possibility of interacting with almost every person who is walked or wheeled into the facility. Please permit me to make a somewhat outlandish statement in order to make a point. If you spent more than ten million dollars for your EHR—by the way, that figure is less than what some hospitals spend on monthly maintenance for theirs—what do you expect of your EHR? Did you wind up installing nothing more than a ten million or hundred million dollar scanner or image management system?

Source: How to Revive a Failed EHR Implementation on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

DARPA for Healthcare: An EMR Shootout

Dale Sanders — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:40:04 +0000

Building on a recent post about Peter Orszag's resignation, and stimulus funding for healthcare IT...As long as we're throwing money around by the billions... If I were Dr. Blumenthal, I’d dangle $500M ala DARPA in front of Amazon, Google, Nintendo, Facebook, salesforce, eBay– or any other capable body– and sponsor a shoot out: Build an inpatient/outpatient EMR and financial management system that will rock our world.

Source: DARPA for Healthcare: An EMR Shootout on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:17:10 +0000

Source: One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Taking the Sheen off Your EMR

Paul Roemer — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:33:16 +0000

I recently watched the movie *61 which documents the 1961 Yankees as Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle both chased Babe Ruth’s longstanding record of 60 home runs in a single season. Great movie if you happen to think baseball is a metaphor for America. Baseball is full of stats and facts like this one — before every game, in the bowels of the stadium, the umpires perform a decades old ritual. When baseballs arrive from the factory, they arrive with the sheen on them that all newly manufactured products have — a sheen that makes it difficult for the pitcher a gain proper grip on the ball.

Source: Taking the Sheen off Your EMR on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Sisters of Mercy Health System VP & CIO Will Showalter, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:57:43 +0000

A house is only as strong as the foundation on which it’s built. And an application environment is only as sound as the network infrastructure and data center upon which it rests. As such, Will Showalter and Sisters of Mercy Health System have undertaken a rebuild of their foundation to support the more than 4,000 [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Sisters of Mercy Health System VP & CIO Will Showalter, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Beaufort Memorial Hospital VP of IS & CIO Ed Ricks, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:21:15 +0000

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.

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Beaufort Memorial Hospital VP of IS & CIO Ed Ricks, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Soon-To-Be Siemens Health Services Business Unit CEO John Glaser

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:19:42 +0000

After more than 20 years with the same organization (Partners HealthCare), it’s been a year of tremendous excitement and change for VP & CIO John Glaser. That’s because just after winding up a stint as senior adviser to National Coordinator David Blumenthal, M.D., shaping HITECH’s Meaningful Use rules, Glaser is off — permanently this time [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Soon-To-Be Siemens Health Services Business Unit CEO John Glaser on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Siemens Summer Coup

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:12:21 +0000

When AllScripts announced its acquisition of Eclipsys on June 9, I thought that would be the biggest healthcare IT M&A news for at least a year. But we're not even through the month and it's been bested by the news Siemens released on Friday. Of course, I'm talking about that company's acquisition of Partners HealthCare VP and CIO John Glaser to head its Health Services Business Unit as CEO. And don't forget, Glaser's not just one of the top CIOs in the country, but also just finished paling around with the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT David Blumenthal, M.D., as his senior advisor in shaping early HITECH policy. Talk about connected!

Source: Siemens Summer Coup on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Carilion Health System SVP and CIO Daniel Barchi, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:36:35 +0000

Managing 512 interfaces isn’t easy. That’s why Daniel Barchi, SVP and CIO with Carilion Health System, was more than happy to embark on the search for a single integrated EMR a few years ago. After an intensive selection process — which included copious input from clinicians — the health system selected Epic. And from that [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Carilion Health System SVP and CIO Daniel Barchi, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

KLAS: Cardiovascular IS Market Not Healthy

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:17:12 +0000

Thirty percent of respondents are considering replacing their cardiovascular information system (CVIS) because of frustrations with product functionality and integration, according to a new report from KLAS — Cardiology IT: Has the industry missed a beat? The high percentage is indicative of poor performance from most vendors in the space, according to KLAS.

Source: KLAS: Cardiovascular IS Market Not Healthy on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Claire Regional Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Randy McCleese, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:29:35 +0000

After 14 years with St. Claire Regional Medical Center, you might think Randy McCleese has done it all, but you’d be wrong. That’s because the CIO is just now embarking on a new core clinical install with a vendor he hasn’t worked with before — Meditech. And McCleese isn’t dipping his toe into the Meditech [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Claire Regional Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Randy McCleese, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Peter Orszag’s Resignation: Why CIOs Should Care

Dale Sanders — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:21:30 +0000

Before I levy my criticisms on Orszag and the mess that his philosophies will leave behind for healthcare CIOs, you need to understand that I’m as politically liberal as they come. I voted for Obama and celebrated in Grant Park when he was elected. However, while I’m a spendthrift with my money, I’m a tightwad [...]

Source: Peter Orszag’s Resignation: Why CIOs Should Care on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hunterdon Healthcare VP & CIO Glenn Mamary, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:06:28 +0000

More and more, healthcare systems seem split into two camps: the one-vendor-for-everything, enterprise solution model or the best-of-suite (or breed) approach. Those embracing the former often spend a big chunk of change to rip and replace most of what they have, while being relieved of many integration headaches down the road. Those selecting the latter [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hunterdon Healthcare VP & CIO Glenn Mamary, Chapter 3 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Can AllScripts & Eclipsys Integrate?

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:27:57 +0000

“From a technology point of view, how difficult will it be to truly integrate the Allscripts ambulatory product/s with the Eclipsys inpatient product/s. How long might it take?” Good question, and complicated answer: If you define “integrated” as systems running the same programming language, operating system, data base, and hardware platform, then AllScripts will never truly integrate all of their products with Eclipsys’. True integration would mean re-writing every product from both firms to be on the same database, OS, servers, etc., something that even Eclipsys didn’t do with the many (fine) products they bought over the years to build their Sunrise suite, to whit:

Source: Can AllScripts & Eclipsys Integrate? on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

How the C-Suite Sees the CIO

Paul Roemer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:34:38 +0000

On NPR I listened to an interview of the man whose job is to ensure the reliability of the electrical grid for the northeastern US. As you might suspect, the country’s power plants are all interconnected. That way, if there’s a problem with one, power can be rerouted and we can still make our cappuccinos. [...]

Source: How the C-Suite Sees the CIO on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Overlake Hospital Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Jody Albright, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:45:35 +0000

When Jody Albright took the IT reins at Overlake Hospital in December 2008, she had no idea industry-changing legislation was only a month away. And while HITECH has certainly accelerated some of her plans, Albright never expected the job to be a walk in the park. That’s because Overlake was in need of some heavy-duty [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Overlake Hospital Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Jody Albright, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hennepin County Medical Center CIO Joanne Sunquist, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:28:50 +0000

In what has become an interesting debate among CIOs — which to do first: CPOE or bedside bar-coded eMAR — smart individuals are coming down passionately on both sides. It’s also interesting that more than a few intrepid souls are counseling both should be done at the same time, though bandwidth constraints leave that group [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hennepin County Medical Center CIO Joanne Sunquist, Chapter 2 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Allscripts & Eclipsys to Combine in HIT Mega-Merger

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:50:18 +0000

Allscripts and Eclipsys are merging in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, will be the CEO of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and CEO of Eclipsys, will become Chairman of the combined company and, "on a full-time basis, will focus on key client and strategic relationships, product and process integration, strategy and the company's international business."

Source: Allscripts & Eclipsys to Combine in HIT Mega-Merger on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Changing the Healthcare System of an Entire Nation

Dale Sanders — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:20:36 +0000

There are three messages that I hope to leave behind in this article. They may seem unrelated, but stick to the story and you’ll see how they all interact. Career opportunities come from equal parts planning, preparation, and random events. Current Electronic Medical Records in the United States are a reflection of a dysfunctional healthcare system and thus are dysfunctional themselves. There are less complicated, easier-to-achieve first-steps for Meaningful Use than those under consideration now.

Source: Changing the Healthcare System of an Entire Nation on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

“Patient Safety” Contrasted with “Patron Safety”

Rich Temple — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:56:55 +0000

I just returned from a weekend with my family at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, OH (the “roller coaster capital of the world”). While we certainly had fun taking in all the coasters, I couldn’t help but think about health IT (I know, what can I say, I need a life!). What really struck [...]

Source: “Patient Safety” Contrasted with “Patron Safety” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hunterdon Healthcare VP & CIO Glenn Mamary, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:44:45 +0000

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hunterdon Healthcare VP & CIO Glenn Mamary, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hallmark Health VP of IS Carol Dresser, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:59:42 +0000

It didn’t take an act of Congress to start Carol Dresser and Hallmark Health implementing advanced clinical technologies. Hallmark — which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, Hallmark Health Cancer Center and Hallmark Health Medical Center — is now working to increase adoption of CPOE and perfect its bedside bar coded medication administration processes. What [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hallmark Health VP of IS Carol Dresser, Chapter 1 on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part II

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:36:23 +0000

In every industry, there are organizations so pervasive they constitute bellwethers for the entire market segment. In healthcare IT, that company is Meditech. With over 2,200 customers and almost $400 million in software revenues last year, the Westwood, Mass.-based organization’s opinions on national policy — especially the HITECH Act’s Meaningful Use NPRM — should be taken very seriously by D.C.’s policy wonks. Offering those opinions to healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra this exclusive interview is President and COO Howard Messing. In the following discussion, Messing — who was recently promoted to CEO subject to a perfunctory confirmation vote — offers his thoughts on the aforementioned HITECH Act, meeting customer demands for the latest software and much more.

Source: TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part II on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Ten Catechisms of Meaningful Use

Paul Roemer — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:13:53 +0000

The Maginot Line—Ligne Maginot. France built the Maginot Line to protect itself from Germany so it would not be overrun as it was in World War One. France built hundreds of miles of fortification to: Disrupt Germany’s strategy; Avoid a surprise attack; To be used for a counteroffensive; To hold off the Germans while the French army could be brought up

Source: Ten Catechisms of Meaningful Use on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

When Frustrating Customers is a Good Thing

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:59:54 +0000

I had repeatedly heard stories about the extended wait times for the company’s software — wait times that were as true for existing customers desperate for upgrades as newly signed clients desperate for delivery. I thought to myself, “Man, that company must be in some serious trouble. There’s no way those customers and prospects are [...]

Source: When Frustrating Customers is a Good Thing on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part I

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:21:44 +0000

Source: TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part I on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Mary CIO Marian Moran

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:41:17 +0000

It’s a debate as old as IT itself — best of breed versus enterprise. In healthcare, that timeless decision usually surfaces in the emergency department, where workflow is incredibly specialized and applications from core clinical vendors usually don’t make the grade. But if niche solutions carry the day, it’s the CIO’s job to make sure [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Mary CIO Marian Moran on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

One-on-One w/Fletcher Allen CIO Chuck Podesta, Part II

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:40 +0000

Chuck Podesta’s stance on Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria probably won’t win him any toasts at the next CIO event. That’s because, despite the position of organizations like CHIME (and this journalist), Podesta thinks the criteria aren’t overly onerous. Though he acknowledges the incentive payout structure isn’t perfect, little else about the program disquiets the [...]

Source: One-on-One w/Fletcher Allen CIO Chuck Podesta, Part II on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

CPOE and Medication Safety: Devil’s in the Details

Marc Holland — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:59:44 +0000

Health Affairs recently published an interesting article that may have gone unnoticed by many in the industry. The article, entitled “Mixed Results in the Safety Performance of Computerized Physician Order Entry”, was authored by Jane Metzger and Dr. David Classen of CSC, Dr. David Bates and Stuart Lipsitz, of Partners Healthcare, and Emily Welebob, a [...]

Source: CPOE and Medication Safety: Devil’s in the Details on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Text/Podcast: EMRs Have “Some Real Negatives”

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:41:57 +0000

A new study from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows “there are some real negatives that come with the positives of EMRs ... Everyone has been saying that health IT will save money, but our study and others cast doubt on some of the savings,” explains Assistant Professor Michael Furukawa, one of the study’s authors. “The bottom line is that EMRs do appear to help lower mortality rates at hospitals, but they don’t necessarily help reduce the number of patient medical complications or reduce costs, especially in the area of nursing.”

Source: Text/Podcast: EMRs Have “Some Real Negatives” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

One-on-One w/Fletcher Allen CIO Chuck Podesta, Part I

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:50:55 +0000

Source: One-on-One w/Fletcher Allen CIO Chuck Podesta, Part I on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/N. Wellesley CIO Scott MacLean

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:34 +0000

Working as CIO in one of the most renowned health systems in the country gives Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s Scott Maclean — also a Corporate Director in the overarching Partners HealthCare superstructure — a unique perspective from which to evaluate the HITECH landscape. And though some might think organizations like Partners are ready to meet Stage 1 [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/N. Wellesley CIO Scott MacLean on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Patient Safety and Electronic Health Records

Dale Sanders — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:00:03 +0000

Below is a discussion motivated by four sentinel events which were root-cause attributable to electronic health records (EHRs) for which my teams and I were personally responsible. Remember when safety belts in automobiles first became popular? They were simple lap belts, no shoulder strap. Did they aid passenger safety? Yes, in some ways… but they [...]

Source: Patient Safety and Electronic Health Records on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/East Orange CIO Tom Ciccarelli

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:51:02 +0000

When Tom Ciccarelli created a team of clinician-users to select a system that would help the hospital achieve Meaningful Use, he didn’t expect them to come back asking for Centricity from GE. That’s because GE’s KLAS scores — a performance indicator Ciccarelli references to help navigate the vendor landscape — have been lackluster of late. [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/East Orange CIO Tom Ciccarelli on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Ask the Pros: Best Critical Access Hospital Vendor?

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:09:25 +0000

QUESTION: "What vendors would you recommend for a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) of 25 beds?" That's easy: just look at vendors whose client base consists mainly of 25 bed CAHs: The "Big 3" are CPSI, Healthland and HMS, who each have hundreds of CAH facilities each; indeed, these three small-hospital leaders have few clients over 100 beds in size! They feature strong integration, offering almost every financial and clinical application, obviating costly interfaces. CPSI even has a self-developed PACS and T & A system. HMS just bought superb ED vendor "MedHost,"

Source: Ask the Pros: Best Critical Access Hospital Vendor? on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

Which EHR Mistake Would You Rather Make?

Paul Roemer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:26:11 +0000

"My work here is done.”If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Mistakes are inevitable—don’t be afraid to make them. However, pick your mistakes—let them be mistakes of your choosing, not mistakes born out of the hubristic approach of others. Permit me to explain. Hospital CIOs have a goal or set of goals they must meet to help drive the mission, vision, or strategy of their organization.

Source: Which EHR Mistake Would You Rather Make? on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:00:42 +0000

While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar. The iPhone-esque vision of an open platform which independent application designers can build on seems to many a refreshing proposition. And some see it [...]

Source: PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

TEXT/PODCAST: Premier MU Library to Aid Members

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:15:05 +0000

Experts from some not-for-profit hospitals have created an EHR Meaningful Use Implementation best-practices library, as part of the Premier healthcare alliance Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative. Championed by Bill Spooner, CIO at Sharp HealthCare, and Craig Richardville, CIO for the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the library features specific instruction on ways to speed implementation of [...]

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Who Says Meditech Isn’t Flexible?

Scott MacLean — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:45:02 +0000

As my hospital converts to more corporate applications, my Meditech system has become more interoperable. The folks at Meditech have been incredibly supportive of a very complex systems agenda at our site. A few weeks ago we went live with Siemens Soarian Financials and Scheduling, feeding our Meditech clinical systems. This two-year implementation was part of a corporate Soarian project and our hospital was the first site. The design is simple. Soarian Financials generates a “master” ADT feed to a “submerged” Meditech admissions module.

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Studies Show HIT Success Tricky Proposition

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:27:21 +0000

Reaping enough value from health IT to justify the substantial investment it requires depends largely on how and where it is implemented, according to a study by Catherine DesRoches of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, featured in the April issue of Health Affairs. Other findings of note in the HIT-focused issue [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Doylestown CIO Rick Lang

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:45:31 +0000

Just over a month ago, 208-bed Doylestown Memorial Hospital got some big league attention as it was tagged by HIMSS Analytics with Stage 6 honors. But with the organization opening a new emergency department, CIO Rick Lang has little time to stop and celebrate. Lang and his team are hard at work rolling out NextGen [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/GE Health CEO Vishal Wanchoo

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:50:00 +0000

At HIMSS 2010, GE Healthcare IT tried to make a splash with the release of its Qualibria clinical knowledge management platform. While it’s unclear how the industry has received that new application, it is clear the vendor has one thing going for it — outstanding development partners in the likes of Intermountain Healthcare and the [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Peter’s CIO Frank DiSanzo

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:46:49 +0000

Switching out one core clinical inpatient system for another — a “big-to-big conversion” — is not for the faint of heart. That’s because doing so requires the buy-in of the entire C-suite, the Board and, perhaps most importantly, the clinicians. But despite the obstacles, New Jersey-based St. Peter’s University Hospital Health System is saying goodbye [...]

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CPOE? Let the device issues begin

Steve Huffman — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:16:25 +0000

Throughout our EMR implementations, which started in 2001, we have tested countless end users devices. We have numerous Computers On Wheels (COW’s), thin client laptops on a low profile cart (we called these calves), laptops, PC’s, tablets and a mixture of thin client devices. Now that we are pushing through a CPOE implementation we find [...]

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Dillione Surfaces at Nuance

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:30:42 +0000

Janet Dillione, the former CEO of Siemens Health Services who resigned from that position soon after HIMSS 2010, has been named executive vice president and general manager of Nuance’s Healthcare business. She will report to Paul Ricci, Nuance’s chairman and CEO. Before joining Siemens in 2000, Dillione held a number of leadership positions at Shared [...]

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