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With almost 30 years in healthcare IT, many of them as a CIO, it’s hard to find someone with more experience than Bill Montgomery. After a few years out of that role, he’s back in a big way, taking on the CIO position at 13-site Hospital Sisters Health System. To learn more about Montgomery’s plans […]
Just over a month ago, 208-bed Doylestown Memorial Hospital got some big league attention as it was tagged by HIMSS Analytics with Stage 6 honors. But with the organization opening a new emergency department, CIO Rick Lang has little time to stop and celebrate. Lang and his team are hard at work rolling out NextGen […]
At HIMSS 2010, GE Healthcare IT tried to make a splash with the release of its Qualibria clinical knowledge management platform. While it’s unclear how the industry has received that new application, it is clear the vendor has one thing going for it — outstanding development partners in the likes of Intermountain Healthcare and the […]
Switching out one core clinical inpatient system for another — a “big-to-big conversion” — is not for the faint of heart. That’s because doing so requires the buy-in of the entire C-suite, the Board and, perhaps most importantly, the clinicians. But despite the obstacles, New Jersey-based St. Peter’s University Hospital Health System is saying goodbye […]
With a healthcare IT career that started in January 1973 — and has since covered the vendor, consultant and provider sides of the business — there isn’t much that’s going to surprise Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) VP and CIO Charlie Covin. But the HITECH Act, which he describes as close to revolutionary, comes darn […]
