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While McKesson has indicated it hopes to move some Horizon customer onto the Paragon platform, a number of product gaps and weaknesses still exist and there are still questions in providers’ minds about whether Paragon can scale to larger hospitals, particularly 400+ bed sites where it is still unproven, according to a new KLAS report [...]
Thoughts on ED scribes
The ICD-10 factor
Living on a razor-thin margin — “This is where the small guys are going to have big problems”
Giving users what they want versus what they need
Clinician dissatisfaction with the data entry burden
The benefit of bringing in outside eyes
GE’s performance — “You can’t go wrong”
A year of implementation in review
Flexibility and customization — a double-edged sword
“An EHR install is an extremely painful situation”
Why consulting help could be key
The financial strain of meeting Meaningful Use
Contemplating Stage 2
I was starting to get frustrated. “Thank you for explaining it again but, based on what you’re telling me, I still don’t know which option is best,” I told the very nice Verizon Wireless representative, who had been detailing the different data plans for our new managing editor’s iPhone. “What I would like to do [...]
In 2009, KLAS reported nearly all software-hosting vendors were performing better than third-party hosting firms. Since then, service firms ACS and Dell have had significantly improved satisfaction scores, according to the company’s recent report: Application Hosting: Dynamic Changes Bring Providers Better Options. They now rival the traditionally highly performing software vendors Cerner, GE, McKesson, and Siemens. ACS [...]
While adoption of clinical information systems is on the rise at community hospitals, there is still much unconquered territory, according to a new report by KLAS — Community Hospital CMS 2011: Rapid Adoption. According to KLAS estimates, approximately 300-500 U.S. hospitals have yet to commit to a CIS vendor as of the start of 2011. [...]
One fifth of all community hospitals currently using EMRs plan to switch products within the next couple of years, despite fast-approaching Meaningful Use deadlines, according to a new report by KLAS, Community Hospital EMRs Maturing for Meaningful Use. “McKesson and Meditech C/S clients are most confident that their vendors will get them to Stage 1 of MU by 2013,” commented Paul Pitcher, KLAS research director and author of the report.
Fast and easy are two words only the uninitiated would use to describe a core clinical HIT system selection, and John Gaede is certainly not one of them. That’s because Gaede recently went through the rigors of crafting a vision, finding partners and hitting the market. And hit the market he did, scouring not [...]
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