Michael Elley, CIO, Cox Medical Center Branson, Chapter 2

Michael Elley, CIO & VP of Support Services, Cox Medical Center Branson

Super-users & key stakeholders
Resource planning with McKesson’s BI tools
T-System’s Care Continuity solution
From 11.5% readmissions to 7.8% in 2 months — “It’s already had a profound effect on our organization.”
Attesting to MU using the ED-only method

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KLAS: Providers Scaling Back On IT Outsourcing

Providers are stepping away from outsourcing - but not completely.

As organizations face mounting pressures to meet meaningful use requirements, providers are pulling back on extensive IT outsourcing services and turning to partial outsourcing agreements to meet growing demands, according to new data from KLAS. The report — IT Outsourcing 2013: Who Can Help with Rising IT Pressures — identified application management and help desk [...]

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Frank DiSanzo, CIO, St. Peter’s Healthcare System, Chapter 1

Frank DiSanzo, Chief Information & Strategy Officer, St. Peter’s HealthCare System

About St. Peter’s
Physician alignment strategies
Running the full gamut of Horizon
The “awkward” timing of McKesson’s announcement
Determining the next steps — Paragon or another product?
The McKesson CIOs of NJ/NY
The vendor leapfrog game

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David Tomlinson, SVP & CIO, Centegra Health System, Chapter 2

David Tomlinson, SVP & CIO, Centegra Health System

Managing Meaningful Use
Going McKesson Paragon — the ‘Amazing Race’
Filling in the gaps
Using Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive
HIE work/physician connectivity strategy

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KLAS: For Community Hospitals, PACS Price Must Be Right

Ben Brown, Imaging Research Director, KLAS

Value is the major concern for community hospital providers who are evaluating PACS replacements, according to new KLAS study, Community and Ambulatory PACS 2012: Questions of Value. In the community hospital market, a vendor’s ability to balance price and continued functionality development is strongly tied to customers’ overall satisfaction. The value leaders, according to KLAS, [...]

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KLAS: Providers Turning To Virtualization To Secure Mobile Devices

With Increased Device Use Comes Increased Security Concerns

With a large majority (70 percent) of provider organizations now using mobile devices to access electronic records, security has become a top priority for CIOs, according to a new KLAS report — Mobile Applications: Can Enterprise Vendors Keep Up, which found that virtualization is the method most often used to address security concerns. “Providers are [...]

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KLAS: Cardiology Solutions Still Don’t Offer The Whole Picture

Cardiology IT solutions still leave providers wanting more.

Although the cardiology IT market is improving, providers still can’t identify one vendor that successfully offers integration, functionality, and comprehensive modules, according to a new report from KLAS — Cardiology IT 2012: Fitting the Pieces Together. In the study, McKesson, Merge, Philips, and Siemens were named top-tier vendors in terms of the combination of adoption [...]

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KLAS: Epic and Cerner Gobbling Market Share

Epic & Cerner Standing Out From the Crowd

Epic and Cerner have moved into first and second place, respectively, for EMR market share in the over 200 bed market, according to findings from a new KLAS study entitled Clinical Market Share 2012: Meaningful Use Momentum Continues. KLAS reports that Allscripts, McKesson, Meditech, and Siemens signed new customers but in the end lost market [...]

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