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When Sajid Ahmed told some colleagues he was thinking about taking on a startup hospital — one being built on the same time as a facility that closed several years ago amidst a sea of controversy — most of them told him to run. Fast. “They said, ‘don’t do it. It’ll be the worst thing […]
About Loma Linda
Vision 2020 & the focus on wellness
IT planning for new hospitals
Post-implementation optimization
Going live with 5 hospitals in 1 day — “It was a lot of moving parts.”
“We knew it would be more difficult… but we decided it was the best thing.”
The slippery slope of configuration changes
The “game-changing” patient portal
Cerner EHR & GE scheduling
Improving care transitions — “We’re not just doing this for MU.”
Stage 2 practice run
Slow progress of MU 2 — “I’m not surprised.”
New ICD-10 strategy
Foresight with new building design
About Dayton Children’s
Partnership with Greenway
Using Medicity to connect with community docs
Epic’s Care EveryWhere Network & Ohio’s CliniSync HIE
MU hurdles: quality measures & patient access
Success with MyKidsChart
Destination 2020
Analytics for disease management
Innovation at a safety-net hospital
Internal & external risk assessments
MU audits — “You design and develop programs knowing you’re going to be audited.”
Building a replacement hospital
“I think it’s probably the best CIO job in the country.”
