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About EMH Healthcare
Siemens Soarian in the hospital, Allscripts Enterprise in ambulatory
MU pushing EHR plans to the forefront — “We fell into the sweet spot.”
From a mostly-paper environment to Stage 6
Leading a clinical transformation — “Include key stakeholders in the decision-making process.”
Aligning with the CNO
Physician pushback after go-live
Rolling out Epic — Getting buy-in was the easy part
Clinician training: seeing is believing
Epic’s playground
Optimizing iSparrow and extending it into the community
“We’re seeing a lot of demand and interest for that.”
MySparrow mobile app — “There’s a craving for that kind of interaction.”
Ardent’s unique operating model
“We have a piece of every part of the health care continuum.”
Standardizing IT with McKesson clinicals and Lawson financials
Racking up frequent flyer miles
Offering access to non-employed docs, but not a hosted EMR
“We haven’t determined there’s a driving need in the markets we serve.”
About Southwest General
The pros of being a standalone — “We can be more nimble”
Partnering with University Hospitals
From Stage 1 to Stage 6
Project management training for everyone
Being the new boss
HIE work
Running a Cerner/NextGen shop
“Interfacing is never as good as true integration on a single platform”
“The best of breed approach — it just doesn’t work”
Career paths — a quick stint on the vendor side
Connecting with the community to facilitate referrals
Is MU spurring practices to adopt?
Measuring up to Meaningful Use
Stage 2 concerns
Comparing HIMSS Analytics & Meaningful Use Stages
About WMHS
Running a Meditech Magic shop, 5.6.4
eClinicalWorks on the physician practice side
Working Dragon into the documentation process
Going down the patient portal path
About West Georgia Health
Being a Meditech 6.0 beta site
Offering Allscripts Professional to independent docs
“Lunch-and-lunch” sessions for physicians
Lessons learned from attesting to MU
“Pulling our quality measures was one of the most difficult things”
Assembling an MU task team
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