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Three years ago, I wrote the blog below to describe our intentions and aspirations for improving the current state of affairs for our Cerner applications in the Cayman Islands National Health System. The phrase “EMR Optimization” is now the common term to describe our undertaking; fixing a very bad implementation is the more frank description. [...]
Budgeting physician satisfiers
Working with Wolters Kluwer’s Provation for order sets
Parting ways with vendors
Working with Medseek on a patient portal
Planning to harness big data
Prognosticating on healthcare reform
“Oh, they better not mess with me or I become their worst nightmare,” said my barber, his eyes glowing with intensity. “Our cable went out a few months ago and they promised me a credit within a couple of billing cycles. Well, I watched those bills like a hawk and, when I didn’t see the [...]
Exchanging data with paper-based practices
The HIE picture in Ohio — large systems on Epic, others left out
Attesting to Stage 1
Working with the CNO & CMO to prioritizing projects
Budget meetings — “It’s like a 90-minute arm-wrestling contest”
Reaping the benefits of project management training
About Banner Health
How Banner moved from two organizations to one, highly centralized health system
“We run a very strict operating company model”
Walking into a merger
The costs of centralized model
“As long as it’s us versus them, you’ve got a problem”
Gathering the purse strings
As today’s health systems continue to invest in information technology, the IT budgets continue to rise along with the staff to manage and support the systems. As CIOs, we struggle to get our arms around the numbers and attempt to quantify, analyze and determine what the ‘Magic Number’ is for staffing and dollars to support our infrastructure.
Budgeting and project prioritization
The importance of 100 percent wireless coverage
Empowering clinicians through BYOD
“Are you going to goal me on that?” asked the well dressed and obviously eager young man. “No. We’re not, but we’re going to goal you on this,” replied the not-much-older gentlemen as both peered intently at a document. I turned to Kate, who had joined me for a walk across the street from our [...]
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