It doesn’t take an hour to get a strong message across, as was demonstrated when three influential CIOs took the stage during CHIME TED Talks and shared best practices in areas like innovation, security, and patient engagement.
Q&A With Marc Probst, Chairman, CHIME Board & CIO, Intermountain Healthcare
Q&A With Marc Probst: A Call To Action From CHIME’s Board Chair
Going Commercial: What CIOs Can Learn From Intermountain’s Experience
On any given day, CIOs are being presented with ideas that could potentially reduce costs, improve care, or even accomplish both. But how can CIOs who are already juggling so many priorities filter through these concepts to find the ones that can truly be game-changers? And even if they find an ace, how can they […]
Marc Probst, Member, HIT Policy Committee, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 1
Phil Fasano, EVP/CIO, Kaiser Permanente, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 1
Intermountain Healthcare and EHRs
Before we go too far in assuming that you need an EHR to achieve what Intermountain has, in terms of lowering costs and improving clinical outcomes, it’s worth drilling down a little further. It is Intermountain’s billing, registration, and case mix systems that enable much of what the organization achieves … and virtually every healthcare […]
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 […]
Changing the Healthcare System of an Entire Nation
There are three messages that I hope to leave behind in this article. They may seem unrelated, but stick to the story and you’ll see how they all interact. Career opportunities come from equal parts planning, preparation, and random events. Current Electronic Medical Records in the United States are a reflection of a dysfunctional healthcare system and thus are dysfunctional themselves. There are less complicated, easier-to-achieve first-steps for Meaningful Use than those under consideration now.
HIT-Related Errors Center Stage at Policy Meeting
Safety concerns took center stage at the HIT Policy Committee meeting today in Washington, D.C., as Certification and Adoption Workgroup Co-chairs Paul Egerman and Marc Probst reported their recommendations on those issues to the full committee. The workgroup’s report was a refinement on an earlier presentation Egerman, a software entrepreneur, and Probst, CIO at Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, gave after receiving testimony about HIT-related patient safety incidents on Feb. 25.