What Does The Allscripts Stock Collapse Really Mean for Customers?

Vince Ciotti, Principal, HIS Professionals

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…

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Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Health Care, Chapter 1

Karen Marhefka, Associate CIO, UMass Memorial Health Care

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

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KLAS: Electronic Record Growth Slow Outside the U.S.

International EMR market building, but slowly

Although there are plenty of vendors exploring the international space, the market for electronic patient records outside of the United States is still in the early stages, according to a new KLAS report — International EPR Market 2012: Multinational Vendor Footprints. The report, which is the first by KLAS to examine the global EMR market, [...]

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KLAS: Multispecialty Organizations Grapple With EMR Functionality Gaps

Specialty EMRs Must Support Multiple Specialties

Although a patchwork of best-of-breed systems might result in high clinician satisfaction scores, inpatient and large physician group leaders face significant challenges in balancing clinician demands with the realities of implementing, interfacing, and supporting each solution, according to a new KLAS report — Ambulatory EMR by Specialty Study 2012: Finding the Fit. The report examines [...]

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KLAS: Third Parties Edging Software Makers In Remote Hosting Race

Community Hospitals Embrace Remote Hosting

In 2009, KLAS reported nearly all software-hosting vendors were performing better than third-party hosting firms. Since then, service firms ACS and Dell have had significantly improved satisfaction scores, according to the company’s recent report: Application Hosting: Dynamic Changes Bring Providers Better Options. They now rival the traditionally highly performing software vendors Cerner, GE, McKesson, and Siemens. ACS [...]

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Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Chapter 1

Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital

On ACOs
eClinicalWorks on the ambulatory side
Meditech in the hospital (Magic 5.6)
Allscripts in the ED
“I think our interfaces have tripled in the last few years “

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Laishy Williams-Carlson, VP/CIO, Bon Secours Health System, Chapter 4

Integrating the independents
Subsidizing Epic & Allscripts
What about the one-offs?
“I can honestly say I love what I do”
Looking to Stage 2 — anticipating direct electronic reporting

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Barbara Riddell, VP/CIO, Atlantic General Hospital, Chapter 2

Contracting for success
“Word of mouth is everything in this industry”
The risks and rewards of a fast implementation
Grappling with the HIT talent shortage
A small hospital with all the big hospital requirements

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Barbara Riddell, VP/CIO, Atlantic General Hospital, Chapter 1

Barbara Riddell, VP/CIO, Atlantic General Hospital

“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

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