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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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Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:55:34 +0000

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

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:43:06 +0000

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

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:58:40 +0000

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

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:39:25 +0000

*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

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:41:48 +0000

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

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:36:27 +0000

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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Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:31:42 +0000

Reading the healthcare IT tea leaves is telling Roger Neal a few things. First off, they’re telling him a close-knit relationship between his hospital and the independent physicians which send it patients is key. They’re also telling him that tight integration which facilitates seamless data flow among his applications is becoming all important. While interfaces [...]

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John Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:50:20 +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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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Trinitas Regional Medical Center VP of IT & CIO Judy Comitto, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:59:27 +0000

Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the leadership of Judy Comitto since it was formed through M&A in 2000, the health system has been continually at work building out its IT environment [...]

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Know the Rules, But Beware the Exceptions

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:40:35 +0000

I've written many times that specialization is the key to excellence – that you can't do anything well if you're trying to do everything. While I still believe this as a general principle, a recent KLAS report on emergency department systems proves that every rule has its exception. The report found that while 31 percent of those using best-of-breed systems in the ED — meaning the system is from a different vendor than their EHR/Pharmacy/CPOE provider — would consider moving to the ED product offered by their enterprise vendor in the future, only 7 percent of those using an ED system from their core vendor would consider leaving it for a best-of-breed solution.

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 3 — What You Get/What You Don’t

Jorge Grillo — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:08:15 +0000

For those following our Magic to 6.0 upgrade (reinstall) sojourn, last month’s cliff hanger was what we will do with the 6.0 ED module. Do we install or go to a different vendor? Well, the vote is in and it is definite that we are moving forward with something other than Meditech. The reasons, you [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST – KLAS Finds Integration To Trump Functionality in the ED

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:00:54 +0000

Integration is a key focus for many hospitals considering ED strategies to help satisfy Meaningful Use objectives, and many are willing to sacrifice some functionality today for integration and anticipated functional improvements in the future, according to a new report by KLAS. Click on the Player Below to Hear a Podcast Interview with Report Author [...]

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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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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Concord Hospital CIO Deane Morrison, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:30:57 +0000

With the government piling on its Meaningful Use regulations, healthcare CIOs are under a lot of pressure to bring home the incentive bacon. For some, relaxation takes on traditional forms such as vacationing, biking or running. But Deane Morrison is no regular CIO. When he wants to decompress, it’s time to scale a mountain, perhaps [...]

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CHIME: MU Better, Not Perfect

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:44:25 +0000

While pleased with some aspects of the final Meaningful Use Stage 1 rule, CHIME still views it as "an aggressive target for the majority of the nation’s hospitals," according to an early analysis by the organization. Additionally, CHIME is predicting that many hospitals will have a difficult time qualifying for stimulus funding in subsequent stages of the incentive program, "as objectives increase in number and become harder to meet, and as other aspects of the stimulus program become more challenging."

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Beaufort Memorial Hospital VP of IS & CIO Ed Ricks, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:15:51 +0000

Though there are thousands of Meditech hospitals, only a handful are in the in the process of migrating from the Magic to 6.0 platform. Of course, those hospitals (and their CIOs) are being watched very closely by the Meditech community. One of those CIOs is Ed Ricks of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Ricks is not only [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Mary CIO Marian Moran

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:41:17 +0000

It’s a debate as old as IT itself — best of breed versus enterprise. In healthcare, that timeless decision usually surfaces in the emergency department, where workflow is incredibly specialized and applications from core clinical vendors usually don’t make the grade. But if niche solutions carry the day, it’s the CIO’s job to make sure [...]

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Who Says Meditech Isn’t Flexible?

Scott MacLean — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:45:02 +0000

As my hospital converts to more corporate applications, my Meditech system has become more interoperable. The folks at Meditech have been incredibly supportive of a very complex systems agenda at our site. A few weeks ago we went live with Siemens Soarian Financials and Scheduling, feeding our Meditech clinical systems. This two-year implementation was part of a corporate Soarian project and our hospital was the first site. The design is simple. Soarian Financials generates a “master” ADT feed to a “submerged” Meditech admissions module.

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

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:53:22 +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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Ask the Pros: Meaningful Use, CPOE and the ED

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:14:45 +0000

My question has to do with the 2010 requirements for “Meaningful Use.” I have heard conflicting stories about Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) adoption requirements for 2010. I know we have to have 10% of our orders completed via CPOE. The question is whether or not we can use the Emergency Department (ED) orders to comply with the 10% requirement?

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Medhost Launches Executive Dashboard

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:20:35 +0000

Medhost has launched OpCenter — executive decision-support solutions that provide real time information on incoming admissions, patient acuity and hospital bed saturation levels. According to Medhost, much of the backlog in the ED is not related to ED patient flow, but is caused by systemic issues that delay moving patients from the ED to [...]

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Englewood Hospital Goes McKesson

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:59:56 +0000

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Bergen County, N.J., is replacing its existing clinical and financial systems with McKesson. The 520-bed medical center will replace its clinical systems with an array of McKesson Horizon Clinicals solutions. These include CPOE, point-of-care bar-code medication administration, and interdisciplinary clinical documentation for nurses and physicians. On the financial side, [...]

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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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Valley Medical Taps Sunquest

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:27:00 +0000

Renton, Wash.-based Valley Medical Center has licensed Sunquest Collection Manager to improve labeling of specimens coming to the lab from the ED. The software will be expanded throughout the organization in 2010. Valley Medical Center is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider between Seattle and Tacoma, serving over 400,000 residents. In addition to the hospital, the [...]

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KLAS: Enterprise ED Gaining Steam, but at a Price

Anthony Guerra — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:02:22 +0000

An increasing number of hospitals are replacing standalone, best-of-breed emergency department software with enterprise solutions that foster better integration —but many of those enterprise solutions are leaving ED clinicians far less satisfied, according to a KLAS report. Among several key findings, the report notes that, for study respondents who are planning to replace or buy [...]

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