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Reevaluating the overall clinicals situation
“We really see the need to take more of an enterprise approach”
Where to buy, where to build?
“We see a real gap in the marketplace of clinical collaboration tools”
Running a software development shop
Staying strategic when there’s so much to do
Security and BYOD strategies
For the last couple of years, I’ve been using this metaphor to highlight the ridiculous nature of healthcare and particularly, healthcare billing — the point being, we tolerate ridiculous behaviors and processes in healthcare that we would never tolerate in the rest of our lives, yet we keep building healthcare software that supports the insanity. [...]
“How you manage a record for a population that’s coming and going?”
The importance of real, regional HIE
Becoming an Allscripts (Eclipsys) inpatient shop
Goldilocks governance —not too much, not too little
Keeping RCM (Keane) in place
Most providers are looking at a new RCM system in terms of how it fits in with a single-source enterprise strategy, often driven by the clinical vendor, according to a recent study, Seismic Shift in Revenue Cycle: Market Heading toward Sole-Source Landscape?, by Orem, Utah-based KLAS. One CFO of a community hospital on the East [...]
It’s been written by some that the key to EMR success lies not with the vendor, but the provider. Switch out the vendor, they say, and the result will likely be the same. Doug Abel, CIO, Anne Arundel Health System, is not of that opinion. According to Abel — who has had significant experience with [...]
Doug Abel, CIO, Anne Arundel Health System, Podcast Chapter 1 [ 14:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (668)With all the talk on Meaningful Use, I am left sometimes to wonder what happens to all the other systems that are not ARRA linked? The biggest and most brutal to think about is your patient accounting and patient management system. Like it says in Les Miserables, “At the end of the day, you’re another [...]
Imagine being able to discuss healthcare treatment options and their associated costs with your physician, in their office, just like you do with your plumber before he starts working. Imagine your healthcare coverage being verified, your claim submitted, and your portion of the bill calculated before you leave the exam room or hospital. To put [...]
If you thought CIOs merely had to surmount the Stage 1 Meaningful Use bar to be successful, you’d be very wrong. That’s because the government has just begun enacting the massive mandates it’s planned for healthcare. Specifically, there’s a little conversion called ICD-10 that will run parallel with the mid-stages of HITECH and take more [...]
PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Norton Healthcare System VP of IS & CIO Joseph DeVenuto, Chapter 1 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (488)
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