Jack Wolf, CIO, Montefiore Medical Center, Chapter 3

Jack Wolf, CIO, Montefiore Medical Center

The ICD-10 postponement — “I’m very happy with the delay”
The overall value proposition of converting
Thoughts on MU stage 2
“CIOs should be more incorporated into the process”

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Linda Reed, CIO, Atlantic Health System, Chapter 3

Linda Reed, VP & CIO, Atlantic Health

Using cloud-based services
Managing the business, not the technology
Benefits of CHIME member-to-member surveys
Setting up ACOs
The PHR wars are heating up
No vacations for CIOs

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

Kate Huvane Gamble, Managing Editor, hsCIO.com

A few weeks ago, I was referred to a specialist. Because this was my first visit with that physician, I had to provide some information. That part I anticipated. What I didn’t count on was having to fill out about a dozen pages of questions, some of which asked for information that I wasn’t prepared [...]

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Christopher Scanzera, CIO, AtlantiCare, Chapter 1

Christopher Scanzera, CIO, AtlantiCare

Cerner inpatient, McKesson Star patient financials
eClinicalWorks in the physician practices
WellLogic for HIE, physician portal, patient portal
Moving from best of breed to best of cluster
Attesting to Stage 1, thoughts on MU

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute VP & CIO Mark Hulse, Chapter 2

CIO roles in different industries, of course, differ vastly, but those within healthcare also have some unique attributes. Specifically, cancer center CIOs — such as Dana Farber, MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan Kettering and H. Lee Moffitt — share challenges their acute counterparts do not. But they also share some benefits, which, according to CIO Mark [...]

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How Private and Secure is Protected Health Information?

There was a very interesting meeting yesterday, “The Personal Health Record (PHR) Roundtable”, organized by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology (ONCHIT).  Some of the more enlightening discussions took place in the afternoon sessions, focusing on security, privacy and standards.  Josh Lemieux, Director of Personal Health Technology, Markle Foundation and Dr. Matthew [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Denver Health CIO Gregg Veltri

Gregg Veltri, CIO, Denver Health

When Gregg Veltri got tired of all the regulation in banking, he decided to try his hand at healthcare. It didn’t take too long before the CIO realized he’d gone from the frying pan into the fire. With almost one kind of audit or another every month, Veltri needs to stay sharp, while positioning his [...]

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Do it the hard way – Our patients will appreciate it

I don’t have Portals and PHR’s quite figured out yet for my Health System, and based on the feedback I’m receiving from other CIO’s many of us don’t have it figured out yet.  There are a lot of hospitals and physician groups in the market for Patient Portals and Personal Heath Record solutions to address [...]

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Personal Health Records: Hope or Hype?

Digital Divide

The Personal Health Record (PHR) should finally allow patients to control their own Protected Health Information (PHI), allow them to assign ‘agents’ such as parents acting for children, or, in the later stages of life, children acting for parents.  Eventually the goal is to enable seamless integration with the EHR and allow patients access to [...]

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