Joel Vengco, VP & CIO, Baystate Health, Chapter 3

Joel Vengco, VP/CIO, Baystate Health

Baystate’s core clinical environment (Cerner)
“We’re a hybrid of best-of-cluster, best-of-breed, and an enterprise monolithic system.”
Strong inpatient, ambulatory challenges
The costs of a rip and replace
The end-users innovation role — knowledge, insight & mobility
Taking a page from the travel industry

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Don’t Judge A Physician’s Office By Its Décor

Anthony Guerra, Editor-in-Chief, hsCIO.com

“Please disrobe and put this on,” she said, removing the eggplant-colored hospital gown from a plastic bag. “Why?” I asked, irritated at the prospect of making an unanticipated transformation into Barney. “Because you’re getting a complete physical today,” she said. “No, I’m not,” I retorted. “You need to put this on so we can give [...]

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Tom Bres, VP/CIO, Sparrow Health System, Chapter 1

Tom Bres, VP/CIO, Sparrow Health System

About Sparrow Health
Going live with Epic — “We took on a large initiative”
Lessons learned from physician practices
Fighting for funds as the financial crisis hit
Implementing ProVation Order Sets
Investing in IT to remain competitive — “It was part of a broader strategic vision”

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Epic King In KLAS End of Year Report

Once Again, Epic Leads the KLAS Pack

Epic swept eight Best in KLAS award categories and was crowned the number-one Overall Software Vendor, number-one Overall Software Suite Vendor, and number-one Overall Physician Practice Vendor in the 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. Other highlights from this year include: athenahealth receives second most Best in KLAS wins Impact Advisors wins number-one [...]

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Michael Warden, SVP of IT & CIO, Banner Health, Chapter 3

Michael Warden, CIO, Banner Health

HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 at 21 of 23 Banner hospitals
Banners clinical app environment — Cerner inpatient, NextGen in the clinics and practices
“It’s the horse we’re riding”
Exchanging data with both employed and non-employed docs (Report2Web)

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John Lynch, VP/CIO, Greater Hudson Valley Health System, Chapter 1

John Lynch, VP/CIO, Greater Hudson Valley Health System

About Greater Hudson
Running an Epic shop
Integrated inpatient/physician practice offerings
Comparing Meditech and Epic
Vendor recipe versus flexibility

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Michael O’Rourke, SVP/CIO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Chapter 2

Michael O'Rourke, SVP/CIO, Catholic Health Initiatives

OneCare and CHI’s clinical application environment
Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts and, yes, Epic
The influence of payers on clinical application usage
Is best of breed viable?
Going all-in on Epic?

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KLAS: Track Record Trumping Price In Ambulatory EMR Purchasing

Practices Can't Roll the EMR Dice

As EMRs continue their transformation from nice-to-have to stakes-to-play, physician practices are less willing to take chances in exchange for big bargains, especially the second time around, according to a new KLAS report, Ambulatory EMR 2012: Market Splitting Under Adoption Pressure. “Some providers are changing vendors simply because their whole organization is moving onto one [...]

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