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

Paul Roemer, VP Client Strategy, Electronic Ink.

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

Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center

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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Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 1

Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System

*Getting into the practice ownership business
*Communicating why integrating EMRs isn’t plug and play
*No Stark … yet
*Developing an ambulatory EMR strategy
*Going from three (NextGen, GE Centricity, LSS) to one — “Long term, having three EMRs is not going to function well for us”

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Jackie Lucas, VP/CIO, Baptist Healthcare System, Chapter 2

*Thoughts on Meaningful Use
*”I wish CMS had taken a more holistic approach”
*The cart has come before the horse
*MU dictates strategy — “But what happened? We had a plan”
*Allscripts Enterprise EHR and PM in the owned practices

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Standardization Lies Beyond The Clinical Realm

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

Charles Colander, VP/CIO, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare

*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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Michele Zeigler, VP IS/CIO, Summit Health, Chapter 1

Michele Zeigler, VP IS/CIO, Summit Health, Chapter 1

*Embracing the affiliated physicians
*Running a Meditech C/S 5.6.4 shop — no plans for 6.0
*Implementing service packs
*Meditech’s service — “Their ability to open a ticket and track its progress is probably the best that I’ve seen”
*Physician engagement strategies

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