New Resource Provides Guidance on Data Sharing

New resource aims to facilitate secure data exchange

Markle Connecting for Health has issued a collection of resources designed to support the secure exchange of health information. The Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework Policies in Practice for Health Information Sharing — or Polices in Practice — address current critical implementation issues for electronic health data sharing, including informed individual consent, governance, individual [...]

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Wanda Sims, CIO, Baptist Health, Chapter 1

Wanda Sims, CIO, Baptist Health

About Baptist
The organization’s CPOE journey
Running McKesson Star for financials, Cerner (outsourced) for clinicals
Implementing CPOE, targeting a June 5 go-live
Breaking down outsourcing’s challenges
“We’re 10 months into it and, right now, we’re happy with our decision”

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Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Healthcare, Chapter 2

Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Health Care

How to optimize product use with so many new projects to tackle
The need to have a stable strategic plan
What to do when everything’s a priority
Appreciating the elevated role of IT in a health system

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Joanne Burns, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Chapter 3

Joanne Burns, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care

Getting big bang implementations out of the way
The push for device integration
Going green across the organization
Stage 6 recognition is another step in the journey—not an end
Not being “on an island”

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Joanne Burns, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Chapter 2

Joanne Burns, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care

Creating an IT innovation group
Cutting out the middle layers to build trust
U of M’s atypical vendor relationship with Cerner
Juggling multiple projects
Avoiding being swallowed up by Meaningful Use
Aligning IT’s goals with those of the organization

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healthsystemCIO.com Survey Shows Many CIOs Stymied By Broken Governance

Governance Giving Many CIOs Fits

With more projects than ever on their plates, just under 50 percent of healthcare CIOs are struggling against faulty governance processes to get them done, according to the January healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey. Specifically, 35 percent say their governance structure is “too convoluted to handle the volume and pace of new issues that must be evaluated and [...]

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 3

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Meditech’s performance
The CHIME Survey on HIT steering committees
Getting docs involved in governance
The nitty gritty of successful meetings
As always, communication is key

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 2

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

Ligon’s CHIME survey on IT steering committees
New boss, new priorities
Prioritization and governance
Acceptable rates of change — “There’s only so many things that people can absorb”
The role of nursing in HIT transformation

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Meet The New Meeting Killer: The Smartphone

Vast initiatives, big strategic concepts and grand visions are the preferred domain of the C-suite executive. And the details? They can (and often should) be left to someone else. While operating off this premise is fine and dandy, it’s clear someone had better take care of the details, or your big vision will come to [...]

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