Putting Policies And Procedures In Their Place

Todd Richardson, CIO, Deaconess Health System

In partnership with CHIME, healthsystemCIO.com has developed a blogger series featuring insights from hospital and health system CIOs and other key IT leaders representing organizations from around the country. The blogs, which will be featured on our site on a biweekly basis, will focus on the major issues affecting CIOs, including the health IT workforce [...]

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Don’t Sell Your Experience Short

Bonnie Siegel, Healthcare IT Recruiter, Witt/Kieffer

Submitting your resume for scrutiny to a recruiting firm or hiring manager may or may not lead to a job change. The health system CIO job market is fiercely competitive. How can you make sure your resume will be read and provoke interest? Recruiters look for key qualifiers on a resume that match a position [...]

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Letting Go Of The Green Screens

Kate Huvane Gamble, Managing Editor, hsCIO.com

“This is ridiculous. Why are they making us do this? Our system works just fine.” During the early years of my career, I worked as a reporter for a few different newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On two separate occasions, I was on staff when the company migrated from an old, time-tested computer system [...]

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Living Beyond Your Means Is Never the ‘Right Thing To Do’

Anthony Guerra, Editor-in-Chief, hsCIO.com

I didn’t even notice that the bathroom was top-to-bottom ’70s salmon or that the kitchen appliances looked like props from The Brady Bunch. I was looking at the neighborhood, the street, the lot size and the general layout of the house. I was in love, but my wife was in a slight panic. “If we [...]

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Adam Gale, President, KLAS

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 [...]

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Someone Has To Pay

Kate Huvane Gamble, Managing Editor, hsCIO.com

It’s pretty rare for the National Football League to dominate the sports headlines in May, especially with basketball and hockey playoffs going on. But last week, two football-related stories broke just hours apart that sent shockwaves through the sports world. First, it was announced that Jonathan Vilma, a veteran linebacker with the New Orleans Saints, [...]

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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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Keeping Controversy To A Minimum

Anthony Guerra, Editor-in-Chief, hsCIO.com

While a few live for their jobs, most work at them. As such, many are easily distracted from those daily tasks that give little satisfaction. One way this tendency exhibits itself is as a veritable craving for office controversy — any reason to start email or chatting with co-workers about the latest goings on in [...]

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The Game Keeps On Going

Kate Huvane Gamble, Managing Editor, hsCIO.com

“I never got to that point where by I didn’t have enough hope to keep on going. This particular crisis was somewhat like playing a game of solitaire. You pick up a card and if you can put it someplace, the game keeps on going. So if you pick up a card which is a [...]

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