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The real challenge for many organizations will be whether Stage 7 can realistically be achieved with your existing vendors. If you are using a single-vendor approach, like many Epic, Meditech, or Cerner hospitals are, the data elements that need to flow between modules or department clinical applications already exist. The need to use BMV in […]
As an organization that just received HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 recognition, we decided not to rest on our laurels but to fully explore the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 requirements. We saw Stage 7 as not just recognition that an organization is basically “paperless,” but more importantly, as a commitment to improve patient care and the […]
In a free-market economy, supply and demand drive pricing, availability, and a host of other economic trends. I have been in the healthcare IT business for over 20 years now, and generally, that free-market model has worked well. It has also allowed for win-win pricing structure and contractual payment terms. For instance, I have regularly […]
Well, we went live on CPOE on May 15. This was not a big bang but rather a trickle, starting with the hospitalists who volunteered to act as provider champions and were willing to work through the bugs and growing pains with us. It is now three weeks later and we are still with the […]
It is said that timing is everything. This is just as true in our 6.x implementation as elsewhere in life. Also in terms of timing, one can ask what came first: the chicken or the egg. The 6.x version of that same question is what comes first: dictionary build or dictionary team training. As stated […]
Well, we are knee deep in dictionary build, so this month’s article will focus a lot on Billing/Accounts Receivable (BAR) and Patient Care Services (PCS). As previously stated, we are taking this opportunity to reevaluate all our processes and existing dictionary structure. I will also discuss how the changes we are looking at impact the […]
As some of you who have followed my past blogs know, I have just transitioned from a Siemens shop in Bermuda to a Meditech hospital in the great white north of upper New York State. Like most hospitals, we too have a strategy for meeting the regulatory requirements of Meaningful Use. For us, it revolves […]
