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*The application environment: “We use a smattering of things”
*Developed Horizon Expert Orders for CPOE (bought by McKesson)
*Developed an EMR (now marketed by ICA)
*Certification and self-development
*Weighing the buy versus build decision
George McCulloch, Deputy CIO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chapter 1 [ 18:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (637)
*Ambulatory/acute integration
*Bringing over the allergies
*Meditech’s flexibility
*Newton-Wellesley’s Meaningful Use roadmap
*Certification challenges
Scott MacLean, CIO, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners Healthcare, Chapter 1 [ 15:12 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (648)While some CIOs favor an integrated suite that requires fewer interfaces on the back end, others are functionality fanatics, happy to give the docs just about whatever they like best, as long as they promise to use the system they’ve chosen. Not surprisingly, CIOs who are also MDs — and thus have been on the [...]
Daniel Nigrin, M.D., SVP for IS & CIO, Children's Hospital Boston, Podcast Chapter 3 [ 14:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (850)The EHR vendors have not been sharing HOW their products are being certified. Currently, it is a black box. This is VERY frustrating. Especially since hospitals and doctors are supposed to be using the EHRs as cerified. Often there are many ways for an EHR to accomplish a testing objective. The current certification just produces [...]
Drummond Group Inc. has introduced its “EHR Certification Roadmap for Hospitals” for facilities with EHRs developed in-house or with systems comprised of various technologies from multiple vendors. The roadmap provides an evaluation of certification needs, certification gap analysis and customized testing, according to Drummond Group. First, it guides the hospital in cataloging the technologies in [...]
With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which products are “go-forward,” which customer segments are best suited to the vendor’s offerings, and which industry regulations will [...]
John Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast Chapter 1 [ 23:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (734)
“Today on our FAQ page, we are posting a revised Question and Answer regarding an issue that has recently caused confusion in our meaningful use regulations: namely, the flexibility that providers have to defer performance on some Stage 1 meaningful use objectives; and how that squares with the requirement that providers must nonetheless possess fully-certified EHR systems.”
As Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism once said “The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” When I first read the announcement from CCHIT in November that they had a process for Hospitals to self certify their EHR Environment for Meaningful Use, I was thrown back to ancient eastern philosophy [...]
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