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Todd Richardson, CIO, Deaconess Health System, Chapter 4

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:37:35 +0000

The benefits of rounding Fixing problems before they’re reported (and those that never would have been) Leveraging Six Sigma for process improvement Reaching HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Does more technology always = better care? The benefits of networking with CIO peers

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:06:34 +0000

Ligon's CHIME survey on IT steering committees New boss, new priorities Prioritization and governance Acceptable rates of change — "There's only so many things that people can absorb" The role of nursing in HIT transformation

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Enticing Docs Down The Rabbit Hole

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:37:18 +0000

Up until Friday of last week, my wife and I had completely different relationships with our phones. My feeling towards my BlackBerry consisted of a grudging respect that one might have for an ox that faithfully takes up the plow to get the job done. In this case, that job consisted of email and phone [...]

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:11:39 +0000

Embedding clinicians in the IT department The value of taking a "Technical timeout" When it's time to get everyone on the (phone) line Taking an ethnographic approach to workflow analysis iPads, iPhones and developing a BYOD strategy

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:31:03 +0000

McKesson Horizon 10.1 inpatient, GE Healthcare (mother/baby, NICU, L&D) Allscripts for ambulatory McKesson/GE integration Single-sign on for improved workflow (Imprivata) Upgrading to 10.3

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Forget The Enterprise, Miss The Boat

Will Weider — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:19:19 +0000

I hate desktop software. Every new application is a potential conflict with mission critical software. Then you have the effort of installing and updating. It is a terrible model for the enterprise. Wherever possible I am looking for Software as a Service (SaaS) option. Adobe has a potentially great service in their CreatePDF SaaS offering (once they add [...]

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Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:04:11 +0000

The Soarian implementation Measuring up to Meaningful Use "My concern is can the industry as a whole support the change being forced on it?" The art of vendor disengagement "ACO is not on my front burner right now"

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The Real Headline In Healthcare IT

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:20:40 +0000

At the heart of the journalist’s job is identifying the “story.” Practically speaking, this means, through all the noise, the journalist must discern and present that information which is most important to the reader. This selected fact, premise, theory or principle becomes what is commonly known as the “lead.” Despite what you may read elsewhere, [...]

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Building the Right Informatics Committee Goes a Long Way

Roger Neal — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:53:40 +0000

My last two posts have focused on some of the areas you need to think about when bringing up any of the more advanced clinical applications, like CPOE. Both your medical and nursing staffs will be greatly impacted by the infusion of this type of technology. To be successful, you need to build a solid [...]

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Healthcare 2.0 – Here We Go Again

Paul Roemer — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:12:31 +0000

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water… It is a strange day when the smartest people in the room are the ones who did absolutely nothing. Whether doing nothing required divination and prescience or merely resulted from having no idea which way to tack the boat need not be determined.

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TEXT/PODCAST: Texas Health Taps Social Media to Promote EHR (One-on-One w/CMIO Ferdinand Velasco, M.D.)

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:01:03 +0000

What good is implementing EHRs if nobody knows about it? Not much, according to Texas Health Resources, a 24-hospital health system located in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. (click on the player at the bottom of this article to hear the Podcast) To makes sure employees, clinicians and the public are aware of the massive implementation [...]

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Patients Are Issuing RFPs – Are You Responding?

Paul Roemer — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:12:34 +0000

If a patient fell in the woods and nobody heard him, so what? I've spent a lot of time trying to understand what a patient is worth to a hospital over a period of, let us say, five to ten years. Simply put, what is the ROI of a patient? Apparently, no one has answered this question. If they have, the answer is well hidden. Why are hospital marketing departments continuously searching for new patients when they already have access to a ready supply of past and current patients? It will always be much cheaper to retain those patients than to try to acquire new ones.

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/PinnacleHealth System VP & CIO Steven Roth, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:17:33 +0000

After years on the consulting side of healthcare, Steven Roth made the jump to provider CIO by joining PinnacleHealth. And while he knew the organization had outsourced its IT shop to Siemens, Roth wasn’t aware of the “depth and breadth” of the agreement until he finally had a chance to read the fine print. As [...]

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The Rise of the “Ambulatory CIO”

Bonnie Siegel — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:43:43 +0000

The growth and expansion of automation into medical practices, ambulatory centers and other sites outside the hospital has led to an increased demand for qualified IT leadership over the ambulatory and medical group side of healthcare. There have been directors or managers for physicians IT services or applications in the past. But the position of [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One-w/HealthEast Care System VP & CIO Mac McClurkan, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:13:50 +0000

For Mac McClurkan, managing vendor relationships isn’t all that complicated — set clear expectations and then hold everyone involved to the highest levels of accountability. With such clarity going in, it’s hard for either party to feel wronged. Well along on his CPOE journey at HealthEast, McClurkan has other fish to fry, such as attaining [...]

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Getting Change Under Control

Dale Sanders — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:41:26 +0000

In a previous blog, I discussed ITIL and what I perceive as a growing trend of love affairs with PROCESS instead of RESULTS. Since that blog, several readers, including two healthcare CEOs and a Chief Medical Officer, contacted me privately to express their frustrations with their CIOs’ ITIL obsession — particularly around change control — [...]

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Social CRM: It’s Like Free Money

Paul Roemer — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:10:08 +0000

One fertile area that seems to be overlooked is Social CRM (S-CRM). The S-CRM presence of most organizations is far from overwhelming, and often seems to be lacking a business perspective for doing much of anything other than checking a box to show they have done something. Almost all have a web site, but not [...]

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Avoiding the Binary Trap

Paul Roemer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:24:01 +0000

Apparently, many healthcare leaders are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place, a self-imposed “binary trap” when it comes to Healthcare IT. It does not have to be that way. HIT is not “binary sudoku”. In other words, your strategy is never limited to only doing ‘this’ or ‘that’. If that is where your organization finds itself, choosing between to unacceptable choices, or trying to decide between the lesser of two evils, your way out is to try to redefine your options, to chunk the problem—break the problem down into more workable chunks.

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Patient Relationship Mgt. – Just Grab the Ball

Paul Roemer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:53:05 +0000

Last year, the astronauts on the space shuttle were tasked with replacing some of the software on the Hubble. From what I read, their first task was to remove over a hundred tiny screws, keeping track of each one to ensure the screw did not float away and goof up a billion dollar piece of hardware. [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/ El Camino Hospital CIO Greg Walton, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:21:39 +0000

Implementing a few clinical systems isn’t going to get you applause at El Camino Hospital. That’s because the organization has “been there, done that,” implementing the first CPOE system some 40 years ago. Considering that tough crowd, the CIO role isn’t for newcomers, and Greg Walton is no newcomer. With 40 years in the business [...]

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Patient Experience (Mis)Management (PEM)

Paul Roemer — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:43:06 +0000

The 2009 HealthLeaders Media Patient Experience Leadership Survey write up by Gienna Shaw states “nearly 90% of top-level healthcare executives said patient experience is either their top priority or among their top five priorities. However, there’s a gap between what senior executives say about patient experience and what they’re actually doing.” We should be surprised, [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Overlake Hospital Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Jody Albright, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:29:59 +0000

When Jody Albright took the IT reins at Overlake Hospital in December 2008, she had no idea industry-changing legislation was only a month away. And while HITECH has certainly accelerated some of her plans, Albright never expected the job to be a walk in the park. That’s because Overlake was in need of some heavy-duty [...]

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How the C-Suite Sees the CIO

Paul Roemer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:34:38 +0000

On NPR I listened to an interview of the man whose job is to ensure the reliability of the electrical grid for the northeastern US. As you might suspect, the country’s power plants are all interconnected. That way, if there’s a problem with one, power can be rerouted and we can still make our cappuccinos. [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Overlake Hospital Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Jody Albright, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:45:35 +0000

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When Implementing a HIS, Big Bang or Phases?

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:04:30 +0000

Dear HIS Pros: If a hospital plans to implement most core clinical applications, do you recommend a big-bang approach of turning everything on at once or an incremental one that involves doing a few applications a year over 2-3 years? Generally, it's best to convert the least you have to at any one time, to maximize the quality and minimize the trauma. "Big Bang" conversions often lead to resumes. Our usual recommendation is to implement a new HIS in 3 phases:

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Celebrate the Current Pace

Steve Huffman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:30:20 +0000

Much has been written about the impact of meaningful use on the healthcare CIO, but it is worth digging a bit deeper in the organizational chart and outline how our management teams will need to adapt as well. A tremendous strain has begun to take hold within our departments as we thoughtfully charge forward to [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One w/Former ONC Senior Adviser John Glaser, Part III

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:18:41 +0000

Over the past year, John Glaser, Ph.D., has been eating and breathing Meaningful Use and Certification even more than his HITECH-focused CIO colleagues. That’s because while Glaser has kept up his role as VP & CIO at Partners HealthCare on a part-time basis, he’s also been winging down to D.C. every week to fulfill his duties as Senior Adviser to ONC and its chief, National Coordinator David Blumenthal, M.D. In this — his first extensive interview since the culmination of that role in March — Glaser talks frankly with healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra about working in the federal government, the proposed regulations, and what the future may hold for both the industry and himself.

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Ten Catechisms of Meaningful Use

Paul Roemer — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:13:53 +0000

The Maginot Line—Ligne Maginot. France built the Maginot Line to protect itself from Germany so it would not be overrun as it was in World War One. France built hundreds of miles of fortification to: Disrupt Germany’s strategy; Avoid a surprise attack; To be used for a counteroffensive; To hold off the Germans while the French army could be brought up

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When Frustrating Customers is a Good Thing

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:59:54 +0000

I had repeatedly heard stories about the extended wait times for the company’s software — wait times that were as true for existing customers desperate for upgrades as newly signed clients desperate for delivery. I thought to myself, “Man, that company must be in some serious trouble. There’s no way those customers and prospects are [...]

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How’s Your EHR Vendor Performing?

Paul Roemer — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:43:48 +0000

Many organizations have a Program Management Office and a Program Steering Committee to oversee all aspects of the EHR. Typically these include broad objectives like defining the functional and technical requirements, process redesign, change management, software selection, training, and implementation. Chances are that neither the PMO or the steering committee has ever selected or implemented [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part I

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:21:44 +0000

In every industry, there are organizations so pervasive they constitute bellwethers for the entire market segment. In healthcare IT, that company is Meditech. With over 2,200 customers and almost $400 million in software revenues last year, the Westwood, Mass.-based organization’s opinions on national policy — especially the HITECH Act’s Meaningful Use NPRM — should be [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: KLAS Finds Providers Seeking MU Help

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:33 +0000

Nearly 70 percent of healthcare providers expect to hire a professional services firm to help with the demands of achieving Meaningful Use, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS entitled, “Shifting Demand for Consultants: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, and Why.” (click here for a Podcast interview with report author Mike Smith, KLAS general [...]

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Can HIT Solve the Healthcare Cost Problem?

Paul Roemer — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:24:14 +0000

Healthcare IT is to healthcare like baseball is to America. It is an underpinning, something that holds the fabric together. Most of the recent attention around HIT has to do with Electronic Health Records and CPOE. That is where the money is, and because of the money those garner most of the attention and notoriety. [...]

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One-on-One w/Fletcher Allen CIO Chuck Podesta, Part II

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:40 +0000

Chuck Podesta’s stance on Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria probably won’t win him any toasts at the next CIO event. That’s because, despite the position of organizations like CHIME (and this journalist), Podesta thinks the criteria aren’t overly onerous. Though he acknowledges the incentive payout structure isn’t perfect, little else about the program disquiets the [...]

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The Field of Dreams Approach to EMR

John Schrenker — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:08:17 +0000

Even if they haven’t seen the movie everyone knows the line from Field of Dreams, “if you build it they will come.” It’s a great movie, but the idea doesn’t apply to information systems, not in healthcare or any other industry. Technology by itself will not affect patient safety, quality of care, productivity, or profitability. [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Methodist CIO Pam McNutt

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:12:15 +0000

Earlier this week, Pamela McNutt, SVP and CIO of Methodist Health System in Dallas, gave a presentation entitled “Meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use: A View from a Healthcare System,” at the AHA’s Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. McNutt — chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee and former chair of the organization’s Advocacy Leadership Team [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/CPOE Investigator G. Schiff

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:21:56 +0000

Gordon Schiff, M.D., associate director of the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is getting ready to head up an ambitious study on CPOE-related errors. The year-long study, funded by The National Patient Safety Foundation, will examine 200,000 reports to elicit common themes and, hopefully, identify possible solutions. Schiff [...]

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The large provider business model–The Sky is Falling

Paul Roemer — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:10:26 +0000

There is a tetralogy of novels, the Alexandria Quartet, in which the same basic story is told from four different points of view. The reason I share this with you is having different points of view does not change the reality of what happened, or what will happen. We each have different points of view [...]

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CIOs Must Have Courage of Their Convictions

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:18:34 +0000

While just about every healthcare CIO can hit the market and select a core clinical system that’s architecturally sound and fiscally feasible, no one recommends they make such a decision alone. One of the cardinal rules of system selection is to include the clinicians–the ultimate end users of the product. “From the beginning, we decided [...]

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Ask the Pros: What Happens to Paper-based Data?

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:29 +0000

Dear HIS Pros, I am doing a project on EMRs for my graduate IT class at Xavier University in Cincinnati. My own topic centers on what happens to all the valuable data in the legacy paper records come day-forward? I read that many physician groups are simply scanning them into pdf format so they can [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Vincent CIO Tim Stettheimer

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:25:52 +0000

As chair of CHIME’s certification committee, St. Vincent’s Health System SVP & CIO Tim Stettheimer, PhD, has been instrumental in developing the CIO-focused organization’s new CHCIO program. And as chair of CHIME’s Board of Trustees, he’s also been at the forefront of crafting the organization’s comment letters on the Meaningful Use and Certification NPRMs. But [...]

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What’s the Goal?

John Schrenker — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:23:56 +0000

What are the goals or your project? Do you know? Every project has as least one and often several goals, but too often there are unspoken goals that can undermine the success of the project. Unspoken goals can be the result of unrealistic expectations, personal agendas, or just resistance to change. The problem is amplified by the fact that, in most of our organizations, staff are involved in several projects concurrently in addition to their day to day responsibilities. This increases the difficulty of making project goals a top priority.

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Experienced CIOs, Share Your EMR Knowledge

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:12:33 +0000

Meeting the Stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements of the HITECH electronic medical records incentive program is going to be tough on all healthcare institutions, but there is no doubt it will be tougher on some than others. Many of my readers at healthsystemCIO.com are far down the path to electrify their healthcare environments and liquefy [...]

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Market Creatively Responds to Ridiculous RECs

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:56:21 +0000

Over a year ago, HITECH legislation gave rise to concepts like the “meaningful use” of electronic health records and established Regional Extension Centers to help small healthcare practices in underserved communities select and implement EHR systems. At that time, I found the latter to be an especially painful example of just how destructive government interference [...]

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The New CIO: Chief Information Oracle

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:45:01 +0000

A day in the life of a healthcare CIO includes interpreting and responding to new federal regulations for use of clinical systems, managing a widening gap between available, healthcare-experienced IT staff and needs, balancing cooperation and competition in health data sharing initiatives, aligning internal and vendor agendas to assure EHR delivery, and coping with ongoing funding competition which will steepen with health economic reforms. How is he to do it?

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:00:42 +0000

While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar. The iPhone-esque vision of an open platform which independent application designers can build on seems to many a refreshing proposition. And some see it [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: Premier MU Library to Aid Members

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:15:05 +0000

Experts from some not-for-profit hospitals have created an EHR Meaningful Use Implementation best-practices library, as part of the Premier healthcare alliance Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative. Championed by Bill Spooner, CIO at Sharp HealthCare, and Craig Richardville, CIO for the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the library features specific instruction on ways to speed implementation of [...]

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TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

dmmorreale — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:03:39 +0000

It occurs to me that the development of electronic health or E-Health is much like a dance and we, as leaders in the technology aspects of health, need to learn some new steps. It’s easy to be caught in the technology foxtrot and spend our time on interoperability, data quality, unique identifiers and semantic referents. [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Doylestown CIO Rick Lang

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:45:31 +0000

Just over a month ago, 208-bed Doylestown Memorial Hospital got some big league attention as it was tagged by HIMSS Analytics with Stage 6 honors. But with the organization opening a new emergency department, CIO Rick Lang has little time to stop and celebrate. Lang and his team are hard at work rolling out NextGen [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/GE Health CEO Vishal Wanchoo

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:50:00 +0000

At HIMSS 2010, GE Healthcare IT tried to make a splash with the release of its Qualibria clinical knowledge management platform. While it’s unclear how the industry has received that new application, it is clear the vendor has one thing going for it — outstanding development partners in the likes of Intermountain Healthcare and the [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/CT Health CIO Charles Covin

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:27:27 +0000

With a healthcare IT career that started in January 1973 — and has since covered the vendor, consultant and provider sides of the business — there isn’t much that’s going to surprise Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) VP and CIO Charlie Covin. But the HITECH Act, which he describes as close to revolutionary, comes darn [...]

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Policy Committee to Discuss Certification IFR

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:38:50 +0000

The HIT Policy Committee will hold a conference call on April 5 at 10 Eastern to discuss its comments on the Certification IFR. Members of the public may listen in via phone @ 1-877-705-6006. Learn more about the IFR: Standards & Certification Interim Final Rule: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology [PDF - 247 KB]

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Stop Blaming the Product

Paul Roemer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:35:55 +0000

Is there a best EHR system? Perhaps Cerner, Epic, GE, or McKesson? For those who have followed my writing, you’re probably thinking my answer is “None of the above.” I’ll do one better, and I write this with the utmost sincerity—it does not really matter which vendor you select. As the EHR vendors reading this [...]

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TEXT & PODCAST: KLAS Finds ACS, CTG & Deloitte Tops

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:35:45 +0000

In terms of overall performance when acting as the lead consultant on clinical engagements, ACS, CTG and Deloitte are in a virtual dead heat, scoring a full 10 points above the next closest firm, Accenture, which is a significant performance gap, according to a new KLAS report: “Getting to Stimulus Funding: Which Consultants Can Help?” [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/ONC’s Josh Seidman

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:13:21 +0000

As ONC looks to bring healthcare IT to the entire country — including every one-doc practice in small town USA — a key weapon in its arsenal is the Regional Extension Center. These organizations are going to dot the country, serving as EHR selection, implementation and Meaningful Use consultants for small practices taking care of [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Denver Health CIO Gregg Veltri

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:09 +0000

When Gregg Veltri got tired of all the regulation in banking, he decided to try his hand at healthcare. It didn’t take too long before the CIO realized he’d gone from the frying pan into the fire. With almost one kind of audit or another every month, Veltri needs to stay sharp, while positioning his [...]

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Podcast: One-on-One w/Meditech Maven John Haffty

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:58:36 +0000

When it comes to Meditech, no one knows more about the company’s products and services — other than possibly Neil Pappalardo or Howard Messing — than John Haffty. Breaking the cardinal rule of putting all eggs in one basket, Haffty has made a career, and built a company, on helping Meditech’s client base get more [...]

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AHA Sees Negative Consequences in Meaningful Use

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:08:35 +0000

“The AHA is very concerned that the high bar for achieving ‘meaningful use’ and the limited transitions proposed in the NPRM will severely limit hospitals’ ability to access these much-needed resources,” the organization stated in its recently filed comment letter to CMS. “We fear that the ultimate impact of the program actually could be the [...]

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One-on-One w/Ochsner CMIO Lynn Witherspoon (I)

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:09 +0000

As a physician, former CIO and now CMIO, Lynn Witherspoon has operated in the healthcare system from a number of angles. And having lived through Hurricane Katrina, he has a better handle on disaster recovery issues than most. But one impact of the storm that the organization is still working to recover from is the [...]

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One-on-One w/U of Wisc. Hospitals CIO Mike Sauk (I)

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:14:21 +0000

While meeting Stage 1 requirements of the Meaningful Use NPRM is a daunting challenge to most, a few are just about there. One such institution is University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, a HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 facility. And though VP and CIO Mike Sauk has just a few odds and ends to deal with, [...]

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One-on-One W/Beacon Partners CEO Ralph Fargnoli (II)

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:16:58 +0000

As hospitals of all shapes, sizes and complexity sprint for HITECH dollars, many are looking at consultants to fill gaps in their healthcare IT intellectual capital repositories. Offering everything from system selection expertise to contract negotiation to temporary staffing augmentation, many organizations won’t best Meaningful Use without outside help. To gain insight into just what [...]

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PODCAST: Chuck Christian Discusses Today’s Testimony

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:33 +0000

To learn more about the challenges associated with implementing electronic medical records in hospitals, the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup took testimony from a number of CIOs, including Chuck Christian of Vincennes, Ind.-based Good Samaritan. Before he jumped on a plane out of D.C., Christian spent a few minutes on the phone with healthsystemCIO.com editor [...]

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Mount Everest & Meaningful Use

John Schrenker — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:33:11 +0000

Comparing achieving Meaningful Use to climbing Mount Everest is probably a bit cliché, but at CHIME’s Spring Forum in Atlanta (held in conjunction with HIMSS), CIOs discovered there are a lot of accurate parallels. Alison Levine, Team Captain of the First American Women’s Everest Expedition was our speaker and her topic was Lessons from Everest: [...]

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CHIME Survey Reveals Vast MU Concerns

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:35:48 +0000

More than 90 percent of CIOs responding to a recent CHIME survey expressed at least some concern about whether they will qualify for HITECH stimulus funding, according to the organization, with upgrading or implementing a certified EHR system one of the largest challenges. Nearly half of all respondents, 48 percent, expressed concern about vendor readiness, [...]

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One-on-One W/Beacon Partners CEO Ralph Fargnoli (I)

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:29:22 +0000

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New Mandatory Genomics Education is Imminent

Gerry Higgins — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:05:22 +0000

An HHS committee on Physician and Patient Education is developing new certification requirements for hospital physicians in genomics and pharmacogenomics. Most hospital physicians, unless your specialty is oncology or obstetrics, are not familiar with anything but diseases inherited as classical Mendelien traits. These new rules will require basic certification in both classical genetics and the [...]

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East Orange Hospital Becomes GE Shop

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:53:44 +0000

New Jersey-based East Orange General Hospital has selected GE Healthcare IT’s Centricity Enterprise EMR, administrative, departmental and revenue cycle solutions to be delivered under an ASP model. The products will be implemented at the 211-bed facility and its outpatient departments using “GE’s Digital Day One” offering for rapid implementation. The solution includes pre-configured clinical templates.

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One-on-One w/Methodist Health CIO Pam McNutt (I)

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:19:56 +0000

As chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee, Pamela McNutt, SVP & CIO, Methodist Health System, is leading that organization’s response to the Meaningful Use Interim Final Rule (IFR). But McNutt’s dual role as member of the AHA IT Policy Advisory Committee gives her an even more powerful vantage from which to formulate a comment, while [...]

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One-on-One w/McKesson Provider Pres. Sunny Sanyal

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:02:33 +0000

Evaluated on a revenue basis, they don’t get any bigger in the healthcare IT space than McKesson Provider Technologies. So when the President of that division speaks, it’s a good idea to listen. As such, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently talked with Sunny Sanyal to learn how the market was looking from his unique perch. [...]

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CIOs coming together to solve major HIT problems

Russ Branzell — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:12:47 +0000

Never in the history of the United States is there more at risk relative to the deployment of information technology and specifically health information technology. The very future of our health system is dependent on us (CIOs). There is no more time for competition either individually or organizationally. How much difference can we make united [...]

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Electronic tasks? Are you serious?!

Steve Huffman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:52:37 +0000

I recently finished reading “Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande and “How Doctor’s Think” by Jerome Groopman. I would highly recommend them to anyone in Healthcare IT. Because each book touches on how doctors contemplate change, it got me thinking about how physicians may be thinking about all of the upcoming changes in Health IT. While [...]

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One-on-One W/Baylor CIO David Muntz (II)

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:21:07 +0000

As chair of the CHIME Advocacy Leadership Team, David Muntz is as plugged into the Meaningful Use saga as any non-government employee can be. And to hear him tell it, the interim final definition of MU needs to be significantly tempered if the majority of healthcare organizations are to have the slightest shot at qualifying [...]

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