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About Edward Hospital & Health Services
Migrating to Epic across the system
“Epic wasn’t an automatic choice”
Need for a single source of truth
IT being thrust into the spotlight
“I’m not a technical person”
Placing a higher value on clinical experience for CIOs
The HIT world is moving at a ferocious pace with constant change, including Allscripts board battles, ICD-10 dates, McKesson’s Better Health 2020 announcement, MU checks, consolidation, investment firms buying up HIT companies, and payers that play both friend and foe. Over the last few months, I have gone on a dizzying tour of many key [...]
The Allscripts stock collapse? It’s sad news for the investors, but the impact on the many former Eclipsys clients is a different story entirely. Just what is the relationship between a company’s stock performance and its products and services? That’s a different matter entirely. Let’s look at just two historical antecedents for brevity’s sake…
Many healthcare CIOs have argued for ages that Meditech’s large market-share has caused them to be a bit less than responsive to customer needs and somewhat rigid in their delivery of service, along with being more focused on their internal business drivers than their customer’s desires. I must admit to having been one of those [...]
About Baptist
The organization’s CPOE journey
Running McKesson Star for financials, Cerner (outsourced) for clinicals
Implementing CPOE, targeting a June 5 go-live
Breaking down outsourcing’s challenges
“We’re 10 months into it and, right now, we’re happy with our decision”
About UMass Memorial
Allscripts ambulatory, Siemens Soarian acute, dbMotion for integration
Making a best-of-breed shop work — “It takes very, very smart people to maintain what we’ve built”
The state of Soarian ambulatory
Navigating vendor M&A
The critical CIO-general counsel relationship
Meeting Meaningful Use (MU) on a tight budget? It’s a challenge, but here are some suggestions: 1. Negotiate Vendor Rates. If you haven’t signed with you’re HIS vendor yet, be sure to negotiate the hourly rate they’re charging for their implementers. Most vendors charge a flat fee for implementation, but give you no idea how [...]
“The vigour of the human mind quickly appears when there is no longer any room for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless passion. We then soon discover that difficulty is, for the most part, the daughter of idleness, that the obstacles with which our [...]
Turning a corner should be a simple thing. However, while watching “Cars” with my kids the other day, I was reminded that it’s not always that simple. In the movie, Doc Hudson instructs Lightning McQueen to turn his wheels into the skid to maintain better control when traveling at high speeds on a dirt road. [...]
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