Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 16 – Preparation Pays Off

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Spending New Year’s Eve supporting a Meditech go-live is not exactly how most people define fun, but it is how many at our hospital spent transitioning from 2011 to 2012. I heard someone state, “Wow, this go-live is just like Y2K; a non-event.” What most CIOs will tell you is that the main reason Y2K [...]

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 3

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Meditech’s performance
The CHIME Survey on HIT steering committees
Getting docs involved in governance
The nitty gritty of successful meetings
As always, communication is key

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Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 15 – A Time Crunch In The Final Month

Jorge Grillo, CIO, Canton-Potsdam Hospital

“4 days to go live” — those words can instill fear into even the most seasoned CIO if the comfort level that everything is ready to go is not there. Luckily for me, I have a great team and, while there are still minor concerns, we are where we need to be for a successful [...]

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Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System, Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 1

Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System

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?

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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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Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Chapter 1

Cathy Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital

On ACOs
eClinicalWorks on the ambulatory side
Meditech in the hospital (Magic 5.6)
Allscripts in the ED
“I think our interfaces have tripled in the last few years “

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Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Chapter 1

Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network

Running Meditech/ChartLogic, Going Epic (go-live 2012)
Cost/benefit of going with Epic
Integrating the independents/HIE
Managing resources, project prioritization

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