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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Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 4

Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System

Staff management
Growing from within
Siemens as a partner
Hetu’s future
Having a work/life balance

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Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 2

Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System

Engaging the docs on CPOE
Developing and rolling out evidence-based order sets
Order sets and the CMIO
Resisting local customization
Are EMRs where they need to be?

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Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 1

Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System

Governance and dotted lines
Being part of a (much) larger health system
Standardization versus customization
Two primary clinical suites in play — Siemens Soarian & Meditech
Holding off on revenue cycle

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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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Greg Kall, System VP/CIO, Summa Health System, Chapter 1

Greg Kall, System VP/CIO, Summa Health System

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

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Phyllis Teater, Associate VP/CIO, Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Chapter 1

Phyllis Teater, Associate VP/CIO, Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University

Garnering the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 award
Wexner’s eHealth journey
Becoming an Epic shop, going big bang
Getting away from best of breed
Clearing the final Stage 7 hurdles
Interfacing with non-Epic health systems
Mega HIT investments and ROI

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Why Is Epic The KLASiest Vendor?

Vince Ciotti, Principal, HIS Professionals

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 [...]

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