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The factor that plays the biggest role in determining a project’s success? Having a staff that’s invested and engaged, says Michael Elley. The best way to ensure that? By having both operations and IT take the lead.
What’s a CIO to do when you’re the third an organization has had in three years? Stop the bleeding by building trust and assembling a leadership team to support the core already in place, says Brian Tew.
If health systems want to sell independent practices on a hosted solution, the key is to establish trust, educate on the benefits of integration, and to avoid, at all costs, the oversell, says CIO John Kenagy.
As more health systems transition to an ACO model, CIOs face mounting pressures to align with independent practices and to create an integrated platform across the system. But for those organizations that aren’t there yet, some are beginning to question whether it’s all worth it. According to the November healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey, the large majority (83 […]
About Meadville MC
Migrating from Magic to 6.1
Beta site for Meditech’s web-based ambulatory product
“We definitely approach it with our eyes wide open.”
Getting practices on a single unified system
Challenges with CPOE & public reporting interfaces — “That kept us sweating for a while”
Using consultants to help with “heavy lifting”
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
About Children’s Hospitals & Clinics
Vision “to be every family’s partner in raising the health of their children”
From PBM world to CIO
Cerner Millenium in acute, eClinicalWorks in physician practices
Steering docs down the path of an integrated system
Physician leaders & work groups — “The community was very active.”
“There are always going to be a number of tweaks.”
About LifeBridge
Cerner in hospitals & practices, best-of-breed in ambulatory
Maryland’s fixed payment system
“Forced population health without attrition”
Shared best practices through CRISP
Strategy in rolling out Cerner to practices — “There’s a lot of credence to sitting on the sidelines for a few years.”
About Novant
From 90 billing systems & 12 EMRs to 1 integrated system (Epic)
Completing a 5-year rollout in 2 years
“Bigger and bigger” waves
Novant Health Community Connect
Getting past cost — “You can always find something cheaper.”
One patient, one record, one remarkable experience
Going live with McKesson Paragon
Juggling multiple ambulatory EHRs — “The interoperability equation has become a lot less difficult.”
Readmission prevention
Forming an ICO — not an ACO
Merrimack Valley collaborative
HIEs — “It’s never a one-size-fits-all”
