Wanda Sims, CIO, Baptist Health, Chapter 2

Wanda Sims, CIO, Baptist Health

MUS1 – planning to attest at the end of this year
The physician practice strategy — McKesson & Cerner?
The importance of making rounds
Medseek for a physician portal (perhaps a patient portal down the road)
Making sure docs don’t see all the data, just the right data
The importance of a sound infrastructure
Implementing virtual desktops

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Telling People About The Fire Is As Important As Putting It Out

Will Weider, CIO, Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System

In January I wrote about the importance of using Root Cause Analysis at Ministry Health Care as a way to learn from our mistakes. This process is so important to us that we have an employee (Fred) that oversees Root Cause Analysis and facilitates the meetings. Those meetings are generally calm meetings that take place [...]

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Root Cause Analysis of IT Service Interruptions

Will Weider, CIO, Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System

I used to think about the day when I fixed everything so we would stop IT outages. Of course that is silly. Like other healthcare organizations we are adding applications to the portfolio every year as new solutions address previously underautomated areas. Most of these are not core parts of the IT architecture, but they [...]

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Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Chapter 3

Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital

Desktop virtualization (using VMware and Stratus Technologies)
Upgrading the infrastructure for a sound application environment
Rounding out the hospital C-suite skill set, shoring up weaknesses
From vendor, to consultant, to in-house CIO
Measuring up to Meaningful Use

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Learning From Google

Google had an outage this week. Google Docs, which I use at home, was down for about an hour. They wrote a post about the outage on their blog. I think this post is a great lesson in effective IT Operations. Our IT organization is working on improving all of these areas, but we have [...]

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Les Clonch, CIO, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, Chapter 2

*CSC for an information systems plan
*Revisiting the infrastructure
*Epic and Cerner go head to head
*Cerner wins the business
*Encore Health Resources for (a 14-month) implementation

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Dave Kempson, VP/CIO, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 1

David Kempson, VP/CIO at Maricopa Integrated Health System

Dave Kempson took over as CIO at Maricopa Integrated Health System in Phoenix, Ariz., at a very interesting time — not only was Maricopa transitioning away from being a county-owned facility, but the IS department was in need of a major overhaul. Kempson and his team were tasked with creating a truly integrated system, and [...]

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Don’t Neglect Your MU Backbone

Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital

I have two kids and, if you have kids, I’m sure this discussion has come up at some point. About five years ago, my son was in the car with me going somewhere. As we drove, we passed a GameStop, and being the gamer that he is, he said, “Dad…I need to stop at GameStop [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Erlanger Health System VP & CIO Laurene Vamprine, Chapter 2

While many think being a good CIO means accommodating clinician requests, Laurene Vamprine says it takes more than that. In fact, she says if a CIO’s going to have any chance of saying ‘yes,’ the proper infrastructure must already be in place. Rather than relying on clairvoyance for such knowledge, Vamprine says it’s essential to [...]

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