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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 […]
