Healthcare Is Local, But The Problems Are The Same

Scott MacLean, Deputy CIO and Director of IS Operations, Partners HealthCare

I woke up at 3:30 this morning because I slept half the day yesterday after arriving on a red-eye from HIMSS12 in Las Vegas. We were thrilled that the Annual Conference had record-breaking numbers of attendees and exhibitors. It was a fabulous week of learning and catching up with friends, and I was ready to [...]

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David Miller, Vice Chancellor/CIO, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Chapter 2

*Having the confidence to push for massive investment
*Are we moving toward a two-tier healthcare system?
*”If you have the money, you should go with the product that positions you best”
*Specialty practices and primary care EMRs
*The clinical/research chasm

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Daniel Nigrin, M.D., SVP for IS & CIO, Children’s Hospital Boston, Podcast Chapter 3

While some CIOs favor an integrated suite that requires fewer interfaces on the back end, others are functionality fanatics, happy to give the docs just about whatever they like best, as long as they promise to use the system they’ve chosen. Not surprisingly, CIOs who are also MDs — and thus have been on the [...]

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InterMountain to Open CIS Research Center, Hire Staff

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is opening the “Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research” to support its clinical information systems. Intermountain’s new center — set to open on Feb. 16 — will centralize 60 fulltime healthcare IT positions, many of which are new positions.  Within the next 10 years, the organization expects to need an [...]

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