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Putting on the nursing & Siemens hats
Jumping into the CIO role — “The hours are long, but I’m having a lot of fun.”
Helping staff “spread their wings”
Getting into the weeds
Ken Blanchard’s school of thought
Teaching nursing informatics — “It helps validate what we’re doing here.”
Being a smaller organization — “We can be a lot more nimble”
Minimizing failures through risk analysis
Enterprise vs best-of-breed
Strategic planning — “It’s not all CIO-driven”
Upgrading to Meditech 5.6.6
Getting “creative” with portal adoption
About Union Hospital of CC
Creating affiliations to improve patient care
Being an early Meditech 6.1 adopter — “We’re willing to take the risk.”
Customizing the surgery module
Staff exchange with Frederick Memorial
The 5 I’s — from implementation to industry expertise
PHI education
About Memorial Healthcare
Competition with nearby cities
Integrated system vs best-of-breed
Meditech in the hospital, Allscripts in ambulatory
Getting practices on one EHR — “It’s been a long road.”
Memorial’s rollout methodology
HIE landscape in Illinois
Upgrading Meditech to connect with Mass HIWay
Plans to expand the New England market
Attesting to MU in 2 states
The power of shared knowledge — “You’re not doing it for the first time in most cases.”
Real-time surveys on iPads
OpenTable’s model
About Vanguard Health
Splitting time between 2 cities
Meditech (MA) & McKesson (IL) in the hospitals, athenaClinicals in ambulatory
Best of breed vs standardization
Connecting with 23 different EMR systems — “You can see the connectivity challenges.”
Physician EHR adoption trends
When it comes to securing new hospital contracts, Epic and Cerner are still the clear frontrunners, but the rest of the race has become much more interesting. According to a new KLAS report, the two leading vendors captured more than three-quarters of new EMR business in 2012; however, there are many more deals to be […]
Going lean
HITECH’s impact — “IT has become more critical to operations than ever before.”
Population health management
Patient portal-lite
“We learn so much from our colleagues.”
Adjusting to a new home
Baking as therapy
About Parkview
Pueblo’s “challenging” payer mix
Migrating from Meditech Magic to 6.0
Bridging the gap between clinical & IT
From 9 servers to 61
Eliminating the nursing tool belt
CPOE roadblocks — “The technology gets in the way.”
“At-the-elbow support” from nursing
Struggling with quality measures
Stage 2 — “It’s a matter of maturing what we have.”
Being the resident MU expert
Telepsychiatry HIE
