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Value is the major concern for community hospital providers who are evaluating PACS replacements, according to new KLAS study, Community and Ambulatory PACS 2012: Questions of Value. In the community hospital market, a vendor’s ability to balance price and continued functionality development is strongly tied to customers’ overall satisfaction. The value leaders, according to KLAS, […]
Staff management
Growing from within
Siemens as a partner
Hetu’s future
Having a work/life balance
Engaging the docs on CPOE
Developing and rolling out evidence-based order sets
Order sets and the CMIO
Resisting local customization
Are EMRs where they need to be?
Governance and dotted lines
Being part of a (much) larger health system
Standardization versus customization
Two primary clinical suites in play — Siemens Soarian & Meditech
Holding off on revenue cycle
Epic and Cerner have moved into first and second place, respectively, for EMR market share in the over 200 bed market, according to findings from a new KLAS study entitled Clinical Market Share 2012: Meaningful Use Momentum Continues. KLAS reports that Allscripts, McKesson, Meditech, and Siemens signed new customers but in the end lost market […]
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
Garnering the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 award
Wexner’s eHealth journey
Becoming an Epic shop, going big bang
Getting away from best of breed
Clearing the final Stage 7 hurdles
Interfacing with non-Epic health systems
Mega HIT investments and ROI
The results are in: KLAS just released its “Best In KLAS” vendor scores, and guess who won in almost every category? It’s an “epic” landslide, with the folks from Verona winning in 27 of 23 categories (only weak in Time & Attendance and PACS…) and scoring an amazing 12.7 on KLAS’ 10-point scale… or something […]
In 2009, KLAS reported nearly all software-hosting vendors were performing better than third-party hosting firms. Since then, service firms ACS and Dell have had significantly improved satisfaction scores, according to the company’s recent report: Application Hosting: Dynamic Changes Bring Providers Better Options. They now rival the traditionally highly performing software vendors Cerner, GE, McKesson, and Siemens. ACS […]
Most providers are looking at a new RCM system in terms of how it fits in with a single-source enterprise strategy, often driven by the clinical vendor, according to a recent study, Seismic Shift in Revenue Cycle: Market Heading toward Sole-Source Landscape?, by Orem, Utah-based KLAS. One CFO of a community hospital on the East […]
