Bobbie Byrne, MD, CIO, Edward Hospital & Health Services, Chapter 1

Bobbie Byrne, MD, CIO, Edward Hospital & Health Services

About Edward Hospital & Health Services
Migrating to Epic across the system
“Epic wasn’t an automatic choice”
Need for a single source of truth
IT being thrust into the spotlight
“I’m not a technical person”
Placing a higher value on clinical experience for CIOs

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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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George Reynolds, MD, CIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Chapter 1

George Reynolds, CIO & CMIO, Children's Hospital & Medical Center

About Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
Migrating to Epic
No need to push EMRs out to community docs
Being a founding member of NEHII
“We intend to use the Epic solutions wherever possible”
Complex issues involving decision support with pediatric patients

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Mike Rozmus, CIO, Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Chapter 2

Mike Rozmus, VP & CIO, Rockingham Memorial Hospital

Using NextGen in the practices
Keeping an eye on LSS
Marrying the inpatient and physician practice worlds using NextGen HIE — “It gets us half way there”
Satisfying specialists with primary care-focused EMRs

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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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John Bosco, CIO, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Chapter 1

John Bosco, CIO, North Shore-LIJ Health System

About North Shore-LIJ
EMR subsidy program with Allscripts
Challenges for small physician practices
Letting Allscripts take the lead
Holding community forums to educate docs
“The huge cultural shift” that needs to happen

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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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KLAS: No Clear Answer For Urgent Care Centers Seeking EMRs

KLAS Says No EMR Dominates Urgent Care

As urgent care centers seek to expand to accommodate increasing patient volume, many are finding that there are multiple options for going electronic, including ambulatory EMRs, ED solutions, and best-of-breed urgent care EMRs, according to a new KLAS report — Urgent Care 2012: A Host of EMR Options. The report found that even best-of-breed urgent [...]

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KLAS: Multispecialty Organizations Grapple With EMR Functionality Gaps

Specialty EMRs Must Support Multiple Specialties

Although a patchwork of best-of-breed systems might result in high clinician satisfaction scores, inpatient and large physician group leaders face significant challenges in balancing clinician demands with the realities of implementing, interfacing, and supporting each solution, according to a new KLAS report — Ambulatory EMR by Specialty Study 2012: Finding the Fit. The report examines [...]

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