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Clinically-led projects — “We’re being totally transparent and inclusive.”
Power of executive sponsorship
“Leadership all the way down is committed.”
From Allscripts to athenahealth in ambulatory
Analytics initiative with Optum — “It will give us a clear picture.”
The CIO’s challenge — “Projects don’t stop.”
About Sharp HealthCare
Hospitals on Cerner, practices on Allscripts
Leveraging dbMotion’s HIE to present “an integrated view.”
Internally developed data warehouse
Short-term & long-term costs of a single-vendor approach
Predictive analytics — “You’ve got to be able to capture that data.”
As organizations step up their data exchange efforts to meet the requirements of Meaningful Use, providers are finding that connectivity is still a major hurdle, according to a new KLAS report — Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces. The report found that vendor satisfaction scores are on the decline, with providers citing inadequate support […]
Allscripts (Eclipsys) Version 5.5 Shop
96 percent CPOE
Hospital/physician practice integration with dbMotion
Since the merger …
Integrating the independents
With more than 30 years in the industry, Ron Sandifer has seen it all. But even Sandifer is amazed at how demanding today’s healthcare IT world has become. With Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and ACOs all either on his plate or radar, there isn’t a minute to spare. To ready his organization for the brave new […]
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys) is on the right track with its vision of interconnected applications from different vendors, based on the Helios […]
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys) is on the right track with its vision of interconnected applications from different vendors, based on the Helios […]
Among 38 potential service providers, only five were considered in more than 10 percent of buying decisions, according to a new KLAS report “Health Information Exchanges: Perception in an Expanding Frontier.” Medicity was considered in 23 percent of HIE buying decisions, followed by Axolotl (22 percent), RelayHealth (16 percent), ICA (11 percent) and Epic (11 percent) — though at this point Epic is strongly considered only for Epic-to-Epic connections, according to KLAS.
Before the term HIE appeared in the pages of HITECH, many CIOs didn’t pay it much attention, preferring instead to focus on getting their houses in order. While that’s still a great strategy, healthcare informatics leaders now have no choice but to dip their toes into the murky waters of inter-organizational information exchange. While many […]
