About HFHS
From home-grown to vendor (Epic)
HFHS and Partners following similar paths
From University Hospitals to Henry Ford
Know what energizes thy self
A spin around Lake Erie
From nurse to CIO
Mary Alice Annecharico, CIO, Henry Ford Health System, Chapter 1
02/09/2012 By Leave a Comment
Joanne Burns, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Chapter 1
01/25/2012 By Leave a Comment
The power of one EMR
Rolling out CPOE in phases
Partnering with Cerner
Fostering new ideas and innovations
Using data to drive care delivery
Leveraging technology to engage patients
The Petitio Principii of ACOs
05/04/2011 By 1 Comment
The serious lack of infrastructure to support an expansive and meaningful ACO strategy is missing from the healthcare technology toolkit. Some may view this as a non critical issue but with so many organizations engaged in some form of ACO activity, we have to ask, “Have we begged the question?” It seems to me we [...]
Collaborative Care – The Thing After HIEs
08/11/2010 By Leave a Comment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote, “Build today a firm and ample base and ascending and secure shall tomorrow find its place.” We CIOs in healthcare have been building a firm and ample based over that past decade. Not that many of us thought in terms of building a foundation when dealing with the hazards and [...]
Patient Relationship Mgt. – Just Grab the Ball
07/07/2010 By Leave a Comment
Last year, the astronauts on the space shuttle were tasked with replacing some of the software on the Hubble. From what I read, their first task was to remove over a hundred tiny screws, keeping track of each one to ensure the screw did not float away and goof up a billion dollar piece of hardware. [...]
Patient Experience (Mis)Management (PEM)
06/23/2010 By Leave a Comment
The 2009 HealthLeaders Media Patient Experience Leadership Survey write up by Gienna Shaw states “nearly 90% of top-level healthcare executives said patient experience is either their top priority or among their top five priorities. However, there’s a gap between what senior executives say about patient experience and what they’re actually doing.” We should be surprised, [...]
Can HIT Solve the Healthcare Cost Problem?
05/11/2010 By 2 Comments
Healthcare IT is to healthcare like baseball is to America. It is an underpinning, something that holds the fabric together. Most of the recent attention around HIT has to do with Electronic Health Records and CPOE. That is where the money is, and because of the money those garner most of the attention and notoriety. [...]
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