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About Mississippi Baptist
McKesson clinicals & financials
“Testing” Paragon at a CAH — “Standardize as much as you can.”
Migrating from Horizon to Paragon
Building up the clinician hub — “It’s just like anything else; you can’t get there quick enough.”
Paragon v.13 pilot
About Comanche County
McKesson in acute, eClinicalWorks in ambulatory
Transition from Horizon to Paragon — “It was quite an interesting challenge.”
Outsourced IT & the “added layer of complexity.”
Attesting to MU — “It wasn’t ‘we barely made it.’
Continued optimization with Paragon 13 — “It’s another opportunity to tackle.”
As organizations shift their focus to the next three to five years, a significant number are looking to replace their existing acute care EMR systems. But for vendors looking to land new clients, the news isn’t good, as the majority of those looking to make a move already have a specific platform in mind, according […]
From higher ed to health IT — “I made the right choice”
Enabling patient-facing technology
“The light at the end of the go-live tunnel”
Master’s of Science in leadership & IT
Removing the roadblocks
5-minute huddles
“I like to get as far away from technology as I can”
Getting practice by implementing Paragon
M&A trends — “Independents are going to be a thing of the past.”
Tapping into Ohio Health’s buying power
Wearing multiple IT hats
Positioning for innovation
CliniSync HIE
Ohio’s Paragon user group — “We bounce ideas off each other.”
About O’Bleness
Merging with Ohio Health
Implementing McKesson Paragon, but eyeing Epic down the road
Accelerated tracks for MU 1&2
Third CIO to lead the EHR initiative — “I was looking for a challenge.”
Leaning on vendors
Playing catchup — “We didn’t have a wireless network.”
The “transformational” Mass HIway
Merrimack Valley’s single-node model
The MU 2 Bucket
Eyeing 100% CPOE adoption
Optimization steering committees
Starting CIO role as Paragon went live
“Boots on the ground”
Going live with McKesson Paragon
Juggling multiple ambulatory EHRs — “The interoperability equation has become a lot less difficult.”
Readmission prevention
Forming an ICO — not an ACO
Merrimack Valley collaborative
HIEs — “It’s never a one-size-fits-all”
Going down the ACO road
Running a best of breed health system (Allscripts Sunrise, QuadraMed, CPSI, HMS, McKesson Paragon, eClinicalWorks)
Implementing Siemens Soarian at four hospitals in a move toward “sameness”
Handling an overwhelming amount of change
Why an enterprise rip and replace isn’t in Summa’s future
While McKesson has indicated it hopes to move some Horizon customer onto the Paragon platform, a number of product gaps and weaknesses still exist and there are still questions in providers’ minds about whether Paragon can scale to larger hospitals, particularly 400+ bed sites where it is still unproven, according to a new KLAS report […]
