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About Summit Health
Meditech HIS, Fuji, GE Centricity
“We’ve been able to do some really innovative things.”
Working with Aspen on a long-term strategy
Lean process improvement
“We needed to do a better job with our ability to manage and govern data.”
Voice of the customer
The “huge challenge” for CIOs
Staff appreciation — “Everyone is overworked.”
IT governance & “black holes”
From idea to business case to decision
“We have a lot of different initiatives, but not a coherent strategy.”
Managing multiple portals
Clinical integration platform for HIE
About Presence Health
His ‘big career moment’
Presence Health Partners
Transitioning to value-based care — “We want to go two feet in the canoe.”
Epic & Meditech in the hospitals
Population health & analytics on the radar
About St. Luke’s Cornwall
Meditech Magic 5.6.6
Consolidation & mergers in New York
Community docs — “It became unsustainable trying to connect with the one-offs.”
RHIO as primary HIE
IT managed services organization
The CIO road show — “It helps alleviate some of the anxieties.”
About Meadville MC
Migrating from Magic to 6.1
Beta site for Meditech’s web-based ambulatory product
“We definitely approach it with our eyes wide open.”
Getting practices on a single unified system
Challenges with CPOE & public reporting interfaces — “That kept us sweating for a while”
Using consultants to help with “heavy lifting”
About Thibodaux Regional
Meditech in the hospital, eClinicalWorks in clinics
MU as “a key driver”
CPOE steering committee
Focus on physician engagement — “They want to understand why we’re changing something.”
Data analytics with Health Catalyst
About Taos Health
Meditech Magic since the mid-90s
athenahealth in the clinics
Taos’ “very active” PHO
Eyeing population health — “We’re going to have to be frontrunners.”
Infrastructure challenges & Internet outages
“Everybody wants to sell you on a cloud-based system.”
The real challenge for many organizations will be whether Stage 7 can realistically be achieved with your existing vendors. If you are using a single-vendor approach, like many Epic, Meditech, or Cerner hospitals are, the data elements that need to flow between modules or department clinical applications already exist. The need to use BMV in […]
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 […]
About West Georgia Health
Being an early adopter — “We have the ear of the developers”
Balancing her team’s “competitive spirit” with a dose of practicality
The “on-ramp” to the Georgia HIN
Expanding data exchange beyond owned practices
Portal education during discharge
