Though there are thousands of Meditech hospitals, only a handful are in the in the process of migrating from the Magic to 6.0 platform. Of course, those hospitals (and their CIOs) are being watched very closely by the Meditech community. One of those CIOs is Ed Ricks of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Ricks is not only […]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Claire Regional Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Randy McCleese, Chapter 1
After 14 years with St. Claire Regional Medical Center, you might think Randy McCleese has done it all, but you’d be wrong. That’s because the CIO is just now embarking on a new core clinical install with a vendor he hasn’t worked with before — Meditech. And McCleese isn’t dipping his toe into the Meditech […]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/ El Camino Hospital CIO Greg Walton, Chapter 2
Implementing a few clinical systems isn’t going to get you applause at El Camino Hospital. That’s because the organization has “been there, done that,” implementing the first CPOE system some 40 years ago. Considering that tough crowd, the CIO role isn’t for newcomers, and Greg Walton is no newcomer. With 40 years in the business […]
SnapSurvey Says: Poor Communication = Bad Acquisition
Immediate outreach to hospital customers by vendors involved in M&A activity is critical to the future of those relationships, said the vast majority of CIOs in the most recent healthsystemCIO.com Advisory Panel SnapSurvey. Prompted by the acquisition of Eclipsys by AllScripts, the June SnapSurvey focused on CIOs expectations of their vendors during such an event, […]
TEXT/PODCAST — KLAS Finds Hospitals/Vendors Face Mammoth CPOE Challenges
U.S. hospitals have “a long way to go” to reach the federal government’s proposed standard of entering at least 10 percent of orders electronically, according to the annual CPOE report from KLAS. Like its predecessors, the 2010 CPOE report features data gathered from almost every hospital in the United States (excluding military or Veterans Administration facilities) that was live with a commercial CPOE product through 2009. Titled CPOE: Traffic Jams on the Road to Meaningful Use, the report finds that only 14 percent of all U.S. hospitals have achieved the expected 10 percent CPOE level required for stage 1 of meaningful use.
Can AllScripts & Eclipsys Integrate?
“From a technology point of view, how difficult will it be to truly integrate the Allscripts ambulatory product/s with the Eclipsys inpatient product/s. How long might it take?” Good question, and complicated answer: If you define “integrated” as systems running the same programming language, operating system, data base, and hardware platform, then AllScripts will never truly integrate all of their products with Eclipsys’. True integration would mean re-writing every product from both firms to be on the same database, OS, servers, etc., something that even Eclipsys didn’t do with the many (fine) products they bought over the years to build their Sunrise suite, to whit:
Allscripts, Eclipsys & The Costs of Mega-Mergers
When HITECH passed with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in January of 2009, many people thought healthcare organizations — both hospitals and physician practices — would immediately flood the marketing looking for EMRs and the highly specialized people needed to install and customize them. But that didn’t happen. Instead, there ensued a kind of […]
Allscripts & Eclipsys to Combine in HIT Mega-Merger
Allscripts and Eclipsys are merging in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, will be the CEO of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and CEO of Eclipsys, will become Chairman of the combined company and, “on a full-time basis, will focus on key client and strategic relationships, product and process integration, strategy and the company’s international business.”
PODCAST: One-on-One w/Microsoft Health Solutions Corporate VP Peter Neupert
Microsoft’s movement into healthcare has been slow, deliberate and fascinating. With products that now range from a PHR platform (HealthVault) to single-sign-functionality (Sentillion) to an information aggregation and analysis system (Amalga), the company is strategically picking up pieces of the healthcare continuum. But while Microsoft offers an HIS outside the United States, it says there […]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead
While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar. The iPhone-esque vision of an open platform which independent application designers can build on seems to many a refreshing proposition. And some see it […]