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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Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies, Chapter 2

Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies

Customer concerns
Helping hospitals lower costs
Lessons from Horizon Enterprise Resource Manager
Souerwine’s approach
Making the decision for change

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KLAS: No Shortage of Vendors Vying For Human Capital Management Market

Human Capital

No one vendor has gained a strong foothold as an integrated human capital management (HCM) offering, according to the KLAS report, Human Capital Management: Finding the Right Vendor Mix. The 170 study respondents to the survey named 60 vendors as part of their HCM strategies, according to the Orem, Utah-based company. With a strong provider focus [...]

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McKesson Horizon, McKesson Paragon And Mental Labels

“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” [...]

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Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies, Chapter 1

Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies

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

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Gary Barnes, CIO, Medical Center Health System, Chapter 2

The HIT workforce shortage
Instituting a project management group that meets weekly — tradeoffs and prioritization
Running a McKesson 10.3 shop
MU stage 2
Upgrade downtime: “I see the frustration among the physicians”

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KLAS: Where CIS Goes, RCM Follows

KLAS Finds CIS Pulls RCM Decisions Along

Most providers are looking at a new RCM system in terms of how it fits in with a single-source enterprise strategy, often driven by the clinical vendor, according to a recent study, Seismic Shift in Revenue Cycle: Market Heading toward Sole-Source Landscape?, by Orem, Utah-based KLAS. One CFO of a community hospital on the East [...]

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