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Although there are certainly challenges in being a community hospital, there are also some key benefits – including the ability to pivot quickly when the unexpected happens, says Renee Fosberg, CIO at Emerson Hospital. “We work hard, and we get things done.”
About SJRMC
Meditech Magic, Allscripts in ED, GE Centricity in clinics
Virtualizing servers — “It was time.”
Disaster recovery vs business continuity planning
“Community hospitals struggle with laying down the law.”
Challenging Ed Marx
Going paperless — “They’re receptive, yet resistant.”
To integrate or not — “The business needs to be the driver.”
When it pays to wait
Creating a physician enterprise
Saying no to rip-and-replace
“The days of objecting to good business decisions are over.”
Real dialogue between docs and IT
Meditech 6.0 has received varying reviews. Why are some users so much more satisfied than others? Imagine for a moment that you are a fly on the wall listening to a conversation between two healthcare executives. The conversation proceeds as follows: CIO: We recently implemented a great EMR system across our hospitals. It has been […]
Running a Meditech Magic 5.64/LSS shop
Hospital/physician practice integration, HIE
Looking to the states to facilitate integration
The final frontier — inpatient CPOE
Going 6.0 someday?
Reading the healthcare IT tea leaves is telling Roger Neal a few things. First off, they’re telling him a close-knit relationship between his hospital and the independent physicians which send it patients is key. They’re also telling him that tight integration which facilitates seamless data flow among his applications is becoming all important. While interfaces […]
Though there are thousands of Meditech hospitals, only a handful are in the in the process of migrating from the Magic to 6.0 platform. Of course, those hospitals (and their CIOs) are being watched very closely by the Meditech community. One of those CIOs is Ed Ricks of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Ricks is not only taking his facility to 6.0 and going best of breed in the ED, but using a new integration engine to bring it all together. To gather some lessons learned for healthsystemCIO.com readers, editor Anthony Guerra recently chatted with Ricks.
While you might think a HIMSS Analytics Stage Six hospital sees the interim MU regulation as child’s play, think again. That’s because even though the hospital may be able to handle what’s being required, helping the local docs meet their criteria is looking to be a very tall order. The most troubling aspect of MU […]
