EHR Incentive ROI – Your Mileage May Vary

Our first hospital to attest for EHR Incentives is expected to receive $3,173,094 for Stage 1. To qualify for that incentive we spent $381,133. This includes the cost for 5,219 hours of IT time to complete the work. So, it surprised me when I was listening to a CIO discuss Meaningful Use on one of [...]

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David Bradshaw, Chief Information/Planning/Marketing Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Chapter 1

David Bradshaw, Chief Information/Planning/Marketing Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

The application environment: Cerner Millennium, GE Centricity, (Allscripts, eClinicalWorks)
The Memorial Herman Information Exchange
Enterprise vs best of breed — Can you ever really get away from integration?
Working with independent-minded docs in Texas

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Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 1

Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System

*Getting into the practice ownership business
*Communicating why integrating EMRs isn’t plug and play
*No Stark … yet
*Developing an ambulatory EMR strategy
*Going from three (NextGen, GE Centricity, LSS) to one — “Long term, having three EMRs is not going to function well for us”

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John Stanley, SVP/CIO, Riverside Health System, Chapter 3

*Siemens ambulatory question — Riverside is longtime GE Centricity (Logician) customer
*Looking at some Centricity-Soarian integration
*John Glaser takes the helm

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Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 1

Reading the healthcare IT tea leaves is telling Roger Neal a few things. First off, they’re telling him a close-knit relationship between his hospital and the independent physicians which send it patients is key. They’re also telling him that tight integration which facilitates seamless data flow among his applications is becoming all important. While interfaces [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System CIO Will Weider, Chapter 2

Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System CIO Will Weider, Chapter 1

Will Weider, CIO, Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System

Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Concord Hospital CIO Deane Morrison, Chapter 1

Deane Morrison, CIO, Concord Hospital

With the government piling on its Meaningful Use regulations, healthcare CIOs are under a lot of pressure to bring home the incentive bacon. For some, relaxation takes on traditional forms such as vacationing, biking or running. But Deane Morrison is no regular CIO. When he wants to decompress, it’s time to scale a mountain, perhaps [...]

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