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Playing “the giving back role” as a reference site
Serving on the MedAllies board
SHIN-NY (NY’s HIE)
Connectivity standards — “We’re seeing the march continue”
Pilot for ONC direct standard in 2009
“Heroic effort” required to meet MU
Patient engagement in acute vs ambulatory
Selling ACOs to the board
Gathering data — “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Physician trust factor — “The lines are blurred now.”
South NJ’s “robust” HIE
Merger with Underwood Memorial
Working with Comcast to enable “complete redundancy”
Importance of board support
About Inspira
Soarian in hospitals, ambulatory migrating to Cerner
Physician bakeoff to select a system
Inspira’s “enterprise mentality”
MU attestation on physician side — “The biggest gap is the patients.”
Onsite portal signups & tests
“You can’t control the patient; the best you can do is educate them and get them engaged.”
About Christiana Care
Cerner as “core backbone on the inpatient side”
Migrating ambulatory onto one platform
Co-development to integrate Cerner & Soarian Financials
“It’s how you get data at the right place and the right time to create a richer patient experience.”
Delaware HIN — “It creates a platform to really start thinking about team-based care.”
About Pomona Valley
Soarian in hospital, NextGen in ambulatory
“Building block approach” to implementation—“We tried to really roll it out in intelligent blocks.”
Contract provision with Siemens
Financials in late summer/early fall
West Coast user groups
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
About UMass Memorial
Playing catch-up
Siemens in the hospitals, Allscripts in ambulatory
Integrated system vs multiple vendors
HealthAlliance’s Level 7 model
Bringing in a CMIO — “You can never have enough hands on deck”
Retaining top talent
IT rounding — “We work very closely with our clinical partners.”
Innovative Inputters
From paper to Level 6
“Looking at where they were in their adoption cycle made it exciting.”
Learning leadership at West Point
The CIO’s evolving role
About MedCentral
Being a beta site for Siemens — “We get to influence the usability of the systems.”
Quality measures
Piloting portals with employees
MU dream team: clinical program manager, nursing liaison & CMO
Creating a unified patient record
NextGen in ambulatory, Siemens Soarian in the hospitals
About Cox Branson (formerly Skaggs Regional MC)
Merging with CoxHealth — “We’re very similar in our cultures.”
Plans to migrate to Cerner and Soarian
Cerner ITWorks
Integration vs interoperability
From best-of-breed to “one chart throughout the system”
