About St. Peter’s
Physician alignment strategies
Running the full gamut of Horizon
The “awkward” timing of McKesson’s announcement
Determining the next steps — Paragon or another product?
The McKesson CIOs of NJ/NY
The vendor leapfrog game
Frank DiSanzo, CIO, St. Peter’s Healthcare System, Chapter 1
05/15/2013 By Leave a Comment
Bill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 1
03/12/2013 By Leave a Comment
About Flagler
Migrating from Meditech to Allscripts
Different strategies to get buy-in from physicians and nurses
Access to inpatient records for affiliated docs
Dealing with the fallout of Allscripts’ MyWay being pulled —“It was a little confusing.”
Town hall meetings led by docs — not administrative leaders
“If I can get out of the way & coach in the back ground, it’s much more effective.”
Joey Hobbs, CIO, Community Hospital Anderson, Chapter 1
01/30/2013 By Leave a Comment
About CHA
Affiliation with Community Health Network — sharing data but not the same system
Participating in Indiana HIE
Meditech in the hospital, Epic in physician practices
Facebook & Twitter as the starting point to get patients engaged
“It’s a multi-year strategy. You can’t just build a portal.”
Tom Johnson, CIO, DuBois Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1
11/28/2012 By Leave a Comment
About DuBois Regional & Penn Highlands Health Care
PHHC’s evolving governance model — “CIO by default”
Getting owned physician practices on the same page
“Each physician practice is its own individual kingdom that you have to overtake.”
Big-bang, 6-month Cerner install
“The longer a project takes, the greater chance it’s going to fail”
From HIMSS Analytics Stage 3 to Stage 6 in 6 months
Taking A Leap Of Faith
10/24/2012 By Leave a Comment
As I look forward to the impact of healthcare reform, whether it is a partisan or bipartisan initiative, I can only predict one thing: we will need access to accurate and comprehensive clinical, operational, and financial data in order to meet whatever new requirements may come. Most communities are still struggling with process measures …
Michael Warden, SVP of IT & CIO, Banner Health, Chapter 3
10/15/2012 By Leave a Comment
HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 at 21 of 23 Banner hospitals
Banners clinical app environment — Cerner inpatient, NextGen in the clinics and practices
“It’s the horse we’re riding”
Exchanging data with both employed and non-employed docs (Report2Web)
Phyllis Teater, Associate VP/CIO, Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Chapter 2
07/16/2012 By Leave a Comment
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
Bill Byers, VP/CIO, Western Maryland Health System, Chapter 1
06/22/2012 By Leave a Comment
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
