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The days of associating small hospitals with low-tech facilities are slowly fading in the past. One reason is that the small, including critical access, hospitals (CAHs) are not exempt from the HITECH programs carrots … or sticks. But sometimes being small does mean being resource constrained and, in that environment, doing any kind of rip [...]

The days of associating small hospitals with low-tech facilities are slowly fading in the past. One reason is that the small, including critical access, hospitals (CAHs) are not exempt from the HITECH programs carrots … or sticks. But sometimes being small does mean being resource constrained and, in that environment, doing any kind of rip [...]

The days of associating small hospitals with low-tech facilities are slowly fading in the past. One reason is that the small, including critical access, hospitals (CAHs) are not exempt from the HITECH programs carrots … or sticks. But sometimes being small does mean being resource constrained and, in that environment, doing any kind of rip [...]

I had planned on including an expanded version of my June 5th post (HI(TECH) Anxiety) in the upcoming edition of SRS’ QuickHITs monthly newsletter. So in doing some additional research, I came across some interesting websites and facts that I thought I would share with www.healthsystemcio.com readers.
First of all, the readership of www.healthsystemcio.com not only [...]

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 [...]

Your local RHIO or HIE should be much more than a check box on your Meaningful Use requirements list, they stand to play an important role in delivering the vision Meaningful Use. Too often RHIOs are discussed as nothing more than repositories of clinical data, but by working with them as a partner they can help organizations and providers address half the Meaningful Use requirements.

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 [...]

After writing public comments on meaningful use, submitting grant proposals and trying to keep pace of healthcare reform, the comment period has just begun.  With the formation of the Regional Extension Centers, State HIT coordinators being nominated, Health Information Exchanges gaining more traction and countless vendors trying to obtain your stimulus money, a CIO’s involvement [...]

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 [...]

When Tom Ciccarelli created a team of clinician-users to select a system that would help the hospital achieve Meaningful Use, he didn’t expect them to come back asking for Centricity from GE. That’s because GE’s KLAS scores — a performance indicator Ciccarelli references to help navigate the vendor landscape — have been lackluster of late. [...]

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QUESTION: “What vendors would you recommend for a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) of 25 beds?” That’s easy: just look at vendors whose client base consists mainly of 25 bed CAHs: The “Big 3″ are CPSI, Healthland and HMS, who each have hundreds of CAH facilities each; indeed, these three small-hospital leaders have few clients over 100 beds in size! They feature strong integration, offering almost every financial and clinical application, obviating costly interfaces. CPSI even has a self-developed PACS and T & A system. HMS just bought superb ED vendor “MedHost,”

Based on the conference calls that I listened to on the Beacon Community Program from ONC,  many communities around the nation submitted great proposals.  While those communities are anxiously awaiting the award announcement in March, I am hopeful that we all are taking advantage of the platform that was created to submit the proposal.
For some, [...]

Somerset Hospital, a 150-bed facility in Pennsylvania, is tapping McKesson’s PROmanager-Rx to automate the dispensing of tablets, capsules, and other oral solid medications that come directly from drug manufacturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form. Somerset, already a user of McKesson’s Paragon HIS, expects PROmanager-Rx to automate dispensing for approximately 80 percent of its daily scheduled patient [...]

Dale Sanders in if 2/7/10 post asked the right questions about HIE sustainability and value. We hear very little about the successful HIE and I suspect will continue to hear about the failures with some frequency. Come on folks, those of you running successful operations, speak out and tell us your secrets. [...]

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. [...]

Quality Systems (QSI) — parent company of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems — is acquiring Opus Healthcare Solutions. NextGen Healthcare will focus on providing solutions to hospitals with 100 beds or less. Opus produces Web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks, and is one of only three’08 CCHIT Certified vendors in the inpatient [...]

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 versus [...]

Inverness, Fla.-based Citrus Memorial Health System has selected McKesson’s Paragon community HIS to be implemented on a remote-hosted basis. The hospital is also using McKesson for document management and medical imaging, along with CPOE. Additionally, Citrus plans to connect with physicians in its outpatient clinics using McKesson’s Practice Partner ambulatory EHR. With more than 150 [...]

In a move that further broadens its expanding product suite, HealthTech Holdings — parent of Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Management Systems Inc. (HMS) — has acquired Addison, Texas-based MEDHOST, a provider of emergency department (ED) systems.
The companies will develop an integrated ED system to be used with the HMS health information system (HIS) for community hospitals.
“We [...]