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About Cox Branson (formerly Skaggs Regional MC)
Merging with CoxHealth — “We’re very similar in our cultures.”
Plans to migrate to Cerner and Soarian
Cerner ITWorks
Integration vs interoperability
From best-of-breed to “one chart throughout the system”
Best-of-breed vs. consolidated systems
Epic isn’t for everyone
Going from a mid-sized organization to a smaller hospital
Hugh Chatham’s IT push — “We’re showing where technology can take the organization.”
Dealing with red tape
Overseeing IT & HIM
Patchwork HIE
Data ownership issues — “It’s supposed to be about the patient.”
Teleneurology with on-call specialists
Tracking readmission data
The Burger King mentality — “It’s easy to turn into a best-of-breed.”
Preparing for RAC audits
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
About St. Claire
From best-of-breed to an integrated system
Meditech 6.0 – going live with CPOE & physician documentation
Building a base with financials
Using a multidisciplinary “team approach”
Selecting a system — “It was the troops that made the choice.”
Working with Northeast Kentucky RHIO & Kentucky HIE
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”
Managing Meaningful Use
Going McKesson Paragon — the ‘Amazing Race’
Filling in the gaps
Using Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive
HIE work/physician connectivity strategy
An early Epic customer (still running Cerner in lab)
Running a transplant center
Being a model for device integration
Working through the best-of-breed versus enterprise-system question with departments
Thinking creatively, outside the box
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