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Going down the ACO road
Running a best of breed health system (Allscripts Sunrise, QuadraMed, CPSI, HMS, McKesson Paragon, eClinicalWorks)
Implementing Siemens Soarian at four hospitals in a move toward “sameness”
Handling an overwhelming amount of change
Why an enterprise rip and replace isn’t in Summa’s future
While McKesson has indicated it hopes to move some Horizon customer onto the Paragon platform, a number of product gaps and weaknesses still exist and there are still questions in providers’ minds about whether Paragon can scale to larger hospitals, particularly 400+ bed sites where it is still unproven, according to a new KLAS report [...]
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 [...]
Customer concerns
Helping hospitals lower costs
Lessons from Horizon Enterprise Resource Manager
Souerwine’s approach
Making the decision for change
“I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I still don’t understand.” Though I don’t recall the year, I distinctly remember uttering those words at a past HIMSS conference during one of the countless “speed-dating” sessions journalists have with vendors. Perhaps because these meet-and-greets are so short, they take on a very intense “get-to-the-point” [...]
The reorg
The new Horizon/Paragon paradigm
“We didn’t feel like we could develop for growth two very complex product suites”
Can Paragon scale?
Horizon’s future
After 14 years with St. Claire Regional Medical Center, you might think Randy McCleese has done it all, but you’d be wrong. That’s because the CIO is just now embarking on a new core clinical install with a vendor he hasn’t worked with before — Meditech. And McCleese isn’t dipping his toe into the Meditech [...]
QUESTION: “What vendors would you recommend for a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) of 25 beds?” That’s easy: just look at vendors whose client base consists mainly of 25 bed CAHs: The “Big 3″ are CPSI, Healthland and HMS, who each have hundreds of CAH facilities each; indeed, these three small-hospital leaders have few clients over 100 beds in size! They feature strong integration, offering almost every financial and clinical application, obviating costly interfaces. CPSI even has a self-developed PACS and T & A system. HMS just bought superb ED vendor “MedHost,”
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