Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the leadership of Judy Comitto since it was formed through M&A in 2000, the health system has been continually at work building out its IT environment with Eclipsys at the core. Two years ago, Trinitas dove into the advanced clinicals end of the pool, and now sees 72 percent of its orders entered electronically. To learn more about the organizations decade-long march toward automation, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently caught up with his fellow New Jerseyian.
Chapter 2
- Overcoming physician resistance to advanced clinicals
- “We have about 20-25 physicians who are resisting”
- Leveraging voice recognition in promoting physician documentation
- HITECH-fueled vendor profiteering
- Funding the ancillaries that make EMR/CPOE user friendly
- Funding the rising support costs
- The CMIO role (and what to do if you don’t have one)
- The importance of CIOs marketing their departments’ achievements
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