PODCAST: One-on-One-w/HealthEast Care System VP & CIO Mac McClurkan, Chapter 3

Mac McClurkan, VP & CIO, HealthEast Care System

For Mac McClurkan, managing vendor relationships isn’t all that complicated — set clear expectations and then hold everyone involved to the highest levels of accountability. With such clarity going in, it’s hard for either party to feel wronged. Well along on his CPOE journey at HealthEast, McClurkan has other fish to fry, such as attaining higher levels of integration between his acute/ambulatory vendors — McKesson and AllScripts. To learn more about his work at HealthEast, and plans for navigating HITECH’s “picky” details, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently caught up with the St. Paul, Minn.-based CIO.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Mac’s main projects “I’m glad to say one of them is not CPOE”
“There’s a lot of picky details in the MU standards that we need to finish addressing”
Managing medication lists
Going from McKesson HealthQuest to Horizon RCM
“In our view, ICD-10 is right around the corner”
CPOE & ONC’s ED bait and switch
Confounding certification questions — “‘EHR’ involves all kind of different tools”
Forced upgrades & certification — “There’s going to be some winners and losers out in the marketplace”
HITECH’s unforeseen consequences

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