Will Weider, CIO, Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, Will Weider, patching together 15 hospitals and physician groups — working off more than a few vendor platforms — to achieve Meaningful Use and garner HITECH dollars. To learn more about his integration work, views on social media and overall perceptions of the government’s entre into healthcare IT, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently chatted with the executive many know as the Candid CIO.
Chapter 1
- About Affinity & Ministry Health Systems
- Going from 3 hospitals to 18
- “There’s a lot of disparate systems, and certainly none of them are configured the same way”
- Providing consistent care across a large health system
- Providing consistent support to each hospital in a system
- The application environment — Meditech, GE Centricity
- The Marshfield Clinic’s home grown EHR — CattailsMD
- The ambulatory picture — What about LSS? “To put your success in the hands of a very small development organization at LSS does surprise me quite a bit”
- GE/Meditech integration
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