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The results are in: KLAS just released its “Best In KLAS” vendor scores, and guess who won in almost every category? It’s an “epic” landslide, with the folks from Verona winning in 27 of 23 categories (only weak in Time & Attendance and PACS…) and scoring an amazing 12.7 on KLAS’ 10-point scale… or something [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are over halfway there in terms of being fully prepared for ICD-10, according to the KLAS report, ICD-10: Preparing for October 2013. While providers know a lack of preparation could result in a halt to reimbursements and a revenue cycle disaster when ICD-10 comes, KLAS found that most organizations [...]
While there are no one-stop shops for providers’ ACO IT needs, Cerner and Epic currently lead the way in provider confidence as being most “ACO-ready,” according to a new report from KLAS, Accountable Care: Providers Forge the ACO Trail. “Providers describe a variety of planned HIT purchases for their ACO projects, including data warehousing and [...]
The Soarian implementation
Measuring up to Meaningful Use
“My concern is can the industry as a whole support the change being forced on it?”
The art of vendor disengagement
“ACO is not on my front burner right now”
Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3 [ 15:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (985)Allscripts in the ED (but looking at Siemens for the future)
The Allscripts/Soarian integration, “is one of the things keeping me up at night”
Moving off Meditech Magic 5.6 — “It’s not sexy, bottom line”
Deciding against 6.0
“Siemens did an outstanding job of cultivating our relationship”
Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2 [ 14:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (403)
Actively acquiring physician practices
A new Siemens Soarian customer
Looking at NextGen on the practice side
“Siemens is evaluating their ambulatory strategy”
No Stark, but facilitating HIE connectivity for the independents
Rich Wheatly, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1 [ 16:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (263)
Cerner and Epic hospitals are leading the CPOE-adoption pack in an industry supercharged by the passage of HITECH in early 2009, according to a new KLAS report: CPOE 2011: The ARRA Effect. (Click on the player below for a Podcast interview with report authors Jason Hess and Colin Buckley) Said Jason Hess, author of the [...]
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