*Siemens ambulatory question — Riverside is longtime GE Centricity (Logician) customer
*Looking at some Centricity-Soarian integration
*John Glaser takes the helm
John Stanley, SVP/CIO, Riverside Health System, Chapter 3
David Miller, Vice Chancellor/CIO, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Chapter 1
*Moving from University of Chicago Medical Center to UAMS
*Taking on a larger role, relocating
*About UAMS
*Best of breed (Eclipsys, GE, McKesson) with an eye towards an enterprise future
*”A best-of-breed shop is in trouble … do I sweep the decks and start over?”
KLAS Finds Patient Flow Market About to Get Crowded
While three vendors — Allscripts, McKesson, and TeleTracking — currently dominate the patient flow software market, a number of major players are set to enter the fray, according to a new report from KLAS, Patient Flow 2011: Relieving Hospital Pressure. Among those knocking at the door are nearly a dozen vendors beyond those measured in […]
KLAS: Ambulatory Practices Overconfident in MU Readiness
Although nearly 80 percent of ambulatory providers that have purchased an EMR are confident they will qualify for meaningful use (MU) in 2011, a closer look at what functionalities have actually been implemented reveals most still have significant holes to fill, according to a KLAS report, Ambulatory EMR: A KLAS Guide to Meaningful Use Success. […]
De Witte Replacing Wanchoo at GE
Jan De Witte, currently president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Performance Solutions division, has also been named president and CEO of its Healthcare IT business, replacing Vishal Wanchoo who was recently named SVP of Growth Initiatives for GE India. De Witte was named president and CEO of GE Healthcare Performance Solutions in June 2010. According […]
Steve Hess, VP/CIO, University of Colorado Hospital, Transcript/Podcast, Chapter 2
Like most CIOs in healthcare, Steve Hess has no shortage of things to do. First off, he’s knee-deep in a multi-year Epic implementation that will see him bid farewell to many incumbent vendors now, and more in the future. Secondly, he’s morphing the business side of the house from a best-of-breed environment to one concentrated […]
Mark Wagner, KLAS, Talks Ambulatory EMRs, Podcast/Text
Allscripts is the most considered ambulatory EMR in a market rife with turnover, according to a new KLAS report, Ambulatory EMR: Win Rates, Replacements, and Provider Loyalty. That turnover is represented by the fact that 35 percent of all providers interviewed for the report plan to replace their existing EMRs sometime in the next two years. This includes nearly a third of the smallest practices.
InterMountain to Open CIS Research Center, Hire Staff
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is opening the “Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research” to support its clinical information systems. Intermountain’s new center — set to open on Feb. 16 — will centralize 60 fulltime healthcare IT positions, many of which are new positions. Within the next 10 years, the organization expects to need an […]
Roger Neal, VP of IT & CIO, Duncan Regional Hospital, Podcast Chapter 1
Reading the healthcare IT tea leaves is telling Roger Neal a few things. First off, they’re telling him a close-knit relationship between his hospital and the independent physicians which send it patients is key. They’re also telling him that tight integration which facilitates seamless data flow among his applications is becoming all important. While interfaces […]
John Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 2
Fast and easy are two words only the uninitiated would use to describe a core clinical HIT system selection, and John Gaede is certainly not one of them. That’s because Gaede recently went through the rigors of crafting a vision, finding partners and hitting the market. And hit the market he did, scouring not only […]
