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A Reader Asks: Dear HIS Pros, I recently read Anthony Guerra’s article on Meditech’s ambulatory EHR situation and wanted to know your assessment of the other major inpatient vendors when it comes to their ambulatory offerings. Thanks! Good question: Anthony’s blog on Meditech and LSS makes one wonder about the other big boys offerings in […]
Welcome to healthsystemCIO.com’s interview with Denni McColm, CIO at Citizens Memorial Hospital, in which she talks about her testimony before the ONC Healthcare IT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup. During the session, McColm presented some of the challenges she was seeing in meeting the Meaningful Use requirements. During our interview, Mccolm also talks about her organization’s […]
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m a huge proponent of specialization and the high quality of service that can only be attained through a narrow and relentless focus on doing a one (or a few) things really, really well. Our URL says a lot about that attention, as we don’t seek to serve a wide array of readers, but only one executive, with an easily definable profile that includes goals, challenges and needs.
For the last five years, it’s been full speed ahead for the IT team at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. Under the leadership of Cindy Peterson, that “full speed” has included implementing dozens of applications from the organization’s core clinical vendor — Meditech — along with many of the ancillary technologies that give CPOE a […]
Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, […]
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 […]
If you thought CIOs merely had to surmount the Stage 1 Meaningful Use bar to be successful, you’d be very wrong. That’s because the government has just begun enacting the massive mandates it’s planned for healthcare. Specifically, there’s a little conversion called ICD-10 that will run parallel with the mid-stages of HITECH and take more […]
When Jody Albright took the IT reins at Overlake Hospital in December 2008, she had no idea industry-changing legislation was only a month away. And while HITECH has certainly accelerated some of her plans, Albright never expected the job to be a walk in the park. That’s because Overlake was in need of some heavy-duty […]
It didn’t take an act of Congress to start Carol Dresser and Hallmark Health implementing advanced clinical technologies. Hallmark — which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, Hallmark Health Cancer Center and Hallmark Health Medical Center — is now working to increase adoption of CPOE and perfect its bedside bar coded medication administration processes. What […]
After 11 years with Greater Baltimore Medical Center, VP & CIO Tressa Springmann is as passionate as ever about improving care at the 300-bed facility. And to go about that work more efficiently, she’s become a dedicated student of process-improvement methodologies, such as Lean and Six Sigma. To learn more about Springmann’s thoughts on Meaningful […]
