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Managing a “Massive research and education component”
Running a Cerner shop (in 9 hospitals) going down the line with the rest of the hospitals
Opening hospitals at a rapid-fire pace
Evaluating a practice’s readiness to go electronic
Going down the PHR road
Stage 2 concerns
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
Running an Epic Systems shop
Joint ventures and enterprise applications
Selling the system internally
Patient migration to “My Chart” practices
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
While we admire those who’ve blazed trails we someday hope to follow, we truly revere those whose accomplishments lay forever outside our scope of talent or inclination. This is why I revere people who administer to the sick – because my nature has placed their work beyond my grasp. I am uncomfortable around hospitals, illness [...]
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 [...]
Over the past several years, we have seen segmentation of EHR product offerings, usually tailored for different clinical settings. In a domain such as Radiology, the specialty requires integration of PACS into the EHR. However, in certain specialties such as oncology, the federal government, professional organizations, and even patient advocacy groups have recommended that the [...]
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 [...]
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