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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KLAS Finds Providers Behind the ICD-10 Eight Ball

Providers Headed for ICD-10 Troubles

Less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are over halfway there in terms of being fully prepared for ICD-10, according to the KLAS report, ICD-10: Preparing for October 2013. While providers know a lack of preparation could result in a halt to reimbursements and a revenue cycle disaster when ICD-10 comes, KLAS found that most organizations [...]

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Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System, Chapter 1

Allana Cummings, CIO, Northeast Georgia Health System

McKesson Horizon 10.1 inpatient, GE Healthcare (mother/baby, NICU, L&D)
Allscripts for ambulatory
McKesson/GE integration
Single-sign on for improved workflow (Imprivata)
Upgrading to 10.3

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Integrated Vendors ACO Favorites

While there are no one-stop shops for providers’ ACO IT needs, Cerner and Epic currently lead the way in provider confidence as being most “ACO-ready,” according to a new report from KLAS, Accountable Care: Providers Forge the ACO Trail. “Providers describe a variety of planned HIT purchases for their ACO projects, including data warehousing and [...]

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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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KLAS Analysts Talk CPOE Adoption

Industry-Wide CPOE Adoption Over Time (Source: KLAS)

Cerner and Epic hospitals are leading the CPOE-adoption pack in an industry supercharged by the passage of HITECH in early 2009, according to a new KLAS report: CPOE 2011: The ARRA Effect. (Click on the player below for a Podcast interview with report authors Jason Hess and Colin Buckley) Said Jason Hess, author of the [...]

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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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