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

Tom Ciccarelli, CIO, East Orange General Hospital

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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Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Chapter 1

Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital

On ACOs
eClinicalWorks on the ambulatory side
Meditech in the hospital (Magic 5.6)
Allscripts in the ED
“I think our interfaces have tripled in the last few years “

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Hospitals Relying on ED for MU CPOE

Over 80 percent of providers interviewed for a new KLAS report, EDIS 2011: Delivering on Great Expectations, plan to utilize their EDIS to help them attest for Stage I MU. However, only a third of those say their vendor is ready, noting a variety of functionality gaps, including medication reconciliation, reporting, and CPOE. “Actually being [...]

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Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2

Allscripts in the ED (but looking at Siemens for the future)
The Allscripts/Soarian integration, “is one of the things keeping me up at night”
Moving off Meditech Magic 5.6 — “It’s not sexy, bottom line”
Deciding against 6.0
“Siemens did an outstanding job of cultivating our relationship”

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Jackie Lucas, VP/CIO, Baptist Healthcare System, Chapter 3

*T-System in the ED
*The need for speed
*Moving up the IT ladder
*Leveraging an accounting degree
*Learning from other industries

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Tim Moore, SVP/CIO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 3

It was going to take a lot to draw Tim Moore back into the workforce. That’s because Moore had been there, done that. He’d found success in all his career endeavors, made some money and bought some houses (a few in sunny Mexico). But one day Moore got an offer even he couldn’t refuse. That [...]

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Tarun Ghosh, SVP/CIO, Fremont-Rideout Health Group, Podcast Chapter 2

Having worked in different industries on different continents, Tarun Ghosh brings an outside’s perspective to the common challenges facing healthcare CIO. And now that he’s here, Ghosh is certainly knee-deep in those common challenges. From getting on a certified version of his core vendor’s EMR software (McKesson), to devising sound physician alignment strategies, to archiving [...]

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