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KLAS: Paragon’s Large Hospital Potential In Question

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:29:41 +0000

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 [...]

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Tom Ciccarelli, CIO, East Orange General Hospital, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:27:53 +0000

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"

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Tom Ciccarelli, CIO, East Orange General Hospital, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:53 +0000

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

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When Flexibility Becomes A Double-Edged Sword

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:57:56 +0000

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 [...]

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KLAS: Third Parties Edging Software Makers In Remote Hosting Race

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:01:45 +0000

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 [...]

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Stephen Stewart, CIO, Henry County Health Center, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:04:36 +0000

Addressing physician concerns Order set creation "The lesson was we should have had more of their input before we started" Getting physician participation up-front Software bugs and the pace of change

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KLAS: Community Hospital Market Ripe For The Taking

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:30:02 +0000

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. [...]

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Community Hospitals Think Other EMR Grass May Be Greener

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:26:23 +0000

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.

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John Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:24:55 +0000

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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TEXT/PODCAST: Best in KLAS 2010 Revealed (One-on-One w/President Adam Gale, Chapter 3)

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:53:38 +0000

In its end-of-year report – 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services – KLAS finds Epic is the top-ranked overall software vendor, with a performance score of 87.0 out of 100, followed by Picis and Philips. The top-rated overall services firm is Hayes Management (90.5), followed by Vitalize Consulting Solutions Inc. [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST – KLAS Perception Report Portends MU Winners and Losers

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:30:02 +0000

With Meaningful Use requirements in mind, hospitals with fewer than 150 beds are focusing less on traditional community CIS vendors and more on large hospital CIS vendors, according to a new KLAS report. The first KLAS CIS perception report to include community hospital data — 2010’s CIS Perception 2010: Vendors Bridge the Size Gap — finds that smaller hospitals are currently considering Meditech, Cerner, McKesson Paragon, and Epic more often than traditional community CIS vendors CPSI, Healthland, HMS, Keane, and Siemens MedSeries4.

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One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:12:04 +0000

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 [...]

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One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:30:40 +0000

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One-on-One w/Washington County Hospital CIO Kim Larkin, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:17:10 +0000

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HI(TECH) Anxiety – Part II

Marc Holland — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:36:31 +0000

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 [...]

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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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Your Local RHIO/HIE Could Be a Meaningful Partner

John Schrenker — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:40:20 +0000

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.

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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 Comment Period Just Began

Steve Huffman — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:23:13 +0000

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 [...]

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

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:50:55 +0000

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/East Orange CIO Tom Ciccarelli

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:51:02 +0000

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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Ask the Pros: Best Critical Access Hospital Vendor?

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:09:25 +0000

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,"

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Beacon Communities – A great opportunity, USE IT!

Steve Huffman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:47:53 +0000

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 [...]

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Somerset Taps McKesson for Pharmacy

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:15:11 +0000

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 [...]

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One of the Secrets

dmmorreale — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:12:50 +0000

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. Hie’s need good [...]

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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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NextGen Parent Co. Acquiring Opus

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:11:35 +0000

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 [...]

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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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Citrus Sweet on McKesson

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:18:36 +0000

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 [...]

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HMS’s Parent Company Snaps Up MEDHOST

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:15:10 +0000

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 [...]

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