Moving forward while staying flexible
Tackling ICD-10
The pressures of producing quality measures
Staff management and motivation
The art of saying no
Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 3
Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 2
*Developing an HIE strategy, Medicity at the core
*Dealing with the specialists (the oncology exception)
*Measuring up to Meaningful Use (going for S1 in 2012)
*”I think some of the timelines for the smaller facilities are going to be a challenge … ultimately, it should shift a little bit”
*Meditech comes through
Heath Bell, CIO, KishHealth System, Chapter 1
*Getting into the practice ownership business
*Communicating why integrating EMRs isn’t plug and play
*No Stark … yet
*Developing an ambulatory EMR strategy
*Going from three (NextGen, GE Centricity, LSS) to one — “Long term, having three EMRs is not going to function well for us”
