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James Wellman, CIO, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Chapter 4

03/17/2015 By Kate Gamble Leave a Comment

Managing change with transparency & accountability
“When it’s your fault, admit it’s your fault.”
Trusting the staff
High-level perspective: “A CIO shouldn’t be working on code.”
CHIME Boot Camp & mentoring
Learning from a major outage — “We found things to improve.”
Confident leadership

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Filed Under: Accountability, Change management, Disaster Recovery, Leadership/Staff Management Tagged With: Comanche County Memorial Hospital, James Wellman, Podcast

James Wellman, CIO, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Chapter 3

03/11/2015 By Kate Gamble Leave a Comment

VNA initiative with Merge
Building a “mutually beneficial partnership” with Integris Health
From part-time desktop tech to CIO
Transitioning to management — “It’s not easy”
His wake-up call — “I needed to trust the people who were working for me.”
Change management without demoralizing the staff
“If you really enjoy it, it’s not drudgery or work.”

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Filed Under: Career Path, Change management Tagged With: Comanche County Memorial Hospital, James Wellman, Merge Healthcare, Podcast

James Wellman, CIO, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Chapter 2

03/04/2015 By Kate Gamble Leave a Comment

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.”

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Filed Under: Communication/Transparency, Data Management/Warehousing, Leadership/Staff Management, Vendor Management Tagged With: Comanche County Memorial Hospital, James Wellman, McKesson, Podcast

James Wellman, CIO, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Chapter 1

02/26/2015 By Kate Gamble Leave a Comment

About Comanche County
McKesson in acute, eClinicalWorks in ambulatory
Transition from Horizon to Paragon — “It was quite an interesting challenge.”
Outsourced IT & the “added layer of complexity.”
Attesting to MU — “It wasn’t ‘we barely made it.’
Continued optimization with Paragon 13 — “It’s another opportunity to tackle.”

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Filed Under: Clinical Transformation, Physician Engagement, Post-Implementation Optimization, Vendor Management Tagged With: Comanche County Memorial Hospital, eClinicalWorks, James Wellman, McKesson Paragon, Podcast

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