Running a Meditech Magic 5.64/LSS shop
Hospital/physician practice integration, HIE
Looking to the states to facilitate integration
The final frontier — inpatient CPOE
Going 6.0 someday?
Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 1
12/22/2011 By Leave a Comment
Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 1
08/08/2011 By Leave a Comment
*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”
Charles Colander, VP/CIO, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, Chapter 1
07/13/2011 By Leave a Comment
*Moving to a new building
*A Meditech C/S 5.6 shop (“6.0 is not on our horizon at this point”)
*NextGen in the owned practices (Phytel layered on top)
*eClinicalWorks in the mix
*No LSS? “I think the industry’s spoken on that one”
Michele Zeigler, VP IS/CIO, Summit Health, Chapter 1
07/11/2011 By Leave a Comment
*Embracing the affiliated physicians
*Running a Meditech C/S 5.6.4 shop — no plans for 6.0
*Implementing service packs
*Meditech’s service — “Their ability to open a ticket and track its progress is probably the best that I’ve seen”
*Physician engagement strategies
KLAS: Ambulatory Practices Overconfident in MU Readiness
04/12/2011 By Leave a Comment
Although nearly 80 percent of ambulatory providers that have purchased an EMR are confident they will qualify for meaningful use (MU) in 2011, a closer look at what functionalities have actually been implemented reveals most still have significant holes to fill, according to a KLAS report, Ambulatory EMR: A KLAS Guide to Meaningful Use Success. [...]
Ron Sandifer, VP/CIO, Community Memorial Health System, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 1
03/29/2011 By Leave a Comment
With more than 30 years in the industry, Ron Sandifer has seen it all. But even Sandifer is amazed at how demanding today’s healthcare IT world has become. With Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and ACOs all either on his plate or radar, there isn’t a minute to spare. To ready his organization for the brave new [...]
Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 2
02/10/2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 1
02/03/2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
