Breaking out of break/fix mode
Transparency with the board — “This is where you are. Here’s what we need to do.”
Challenging vendor parameters with EMC
“The costs are the costs; we need to manage how we do this”
Data & network overhaul
Partnering with Brocade — “We sold them on the concept.”
Gene Thomas, VP & CIO, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Chapter 1
Kyle Johnson, SVP & CIO, Eastern Maine Healthcare, Chapter 3
Major M&A at CHE Trinity — “When is large too large?”
Data management as a differentiator in mergers
Acquiring Mercy — “There’s a lot of heavy lifting that has to go on.”
When it’s time for a change — “You have to be really ready, and I was.”
Size versus agility
Cultural fit — “If you pick wrong, it can be pretty miserable”
Kyle Johnson, SVP & CIO, Eastern Maine Healthcare, Chapter 2
Kyle Johnson, SVP & CIO, Eastern Maine Healthcare, Chapter 1
About Eastern Maine
Cerner in hospitals, GE Centricity in ambulatory
Clinician engagement — “We’re looking to take it to the next level.”
Maine’s “robust” HIE
Building a successful ACO — “You have to really understand the operation.”
Shared services across the organization
“How can we do things in a more efficient and more effective way?”
Data Warehouses and Disease Surveillance — What Can We Do Now?
So what do we do in the near term? Is there anything we can do, realistically, to better track the progress of diseases like Ebola, given our existing ecosystem of information systems in healthcare? As you can see from the list below, we could do better than nothing and the existing state of affairs, but any current […]
Taking Command: Building A Network Operations Center
“I had no idea it was this complex,” exclaimed our corporate controller. “Do you think our clinicians understand how this works?” This was her reaction to touring one of our tier-3 data centers, and no, I don’t think our clinicians understand the challenge and importance of data center management. I don’t want them to have […]
Chad Eckes, CIO, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Chapter 4
Chad Eckes, CIO, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Chapter 2
Disease Monitoring and Data Warehouses
We could easily justify a 30-page paper on this topic, but I don’t have time for that, so while it’s hot, I’m going to offer a few thoughts and observations on disease surveillance based upon my experience in the trenches of healthcare data. I hope that others with similar experiences will share your thoughts by submitting […]