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In this interview with healthsystemCIO, Dr. Rob Bart, CMIO at UPMC, discusses the challenges and opportunities of moving towards an enterprise imaging environment. UPMC’s strategy involves consolidating various PACS, and then moving those images to a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) to ensure they’re readily available for patient care. While the technology exists, the real challenge […]
For healthcare IT leaders, “the technology is the easy part,” said Chris Carmody, CTO at UPMC, during a recent interview. The real challenge comes in maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.” He also talked about the benefits of migrating analytics to the cloud, why third-party risk management should be top of mind, and why he sees “a bright future” for healthcare.
After more than a quarter century with the organization, John Houston knows how to find his way around UPMC. And when it comes to being an effective security leader, that not only helps him move complex issues along, but also ensures everyone else knows who to come to for any security-related concerns. His guiding mantra? […]
The good news? Healthcare organizations are finding success when it comes to interoperability. The not-so-good news? That success often comes in sharing data within their own system, rather than with outsiders, according to research from the Center for Connected Medicine.
If we want to uncover the “true patient story,” we need to connect the dots across separate entities and look at data in a longitudinal way, says Dr. Rasu Shrestha, who talks about his team’s strategy at UPMC.
The best way to ensure success with pilot programs? By building a business case around specific pain points and identifying champions – and not ‘leading by pilot,’ says Dr. Rasu Shrestha of UPMC.
To some, innovation is a buzzword. But to organizations like UPMC that are leveraging data to create more effective care models and solutions, it’s a strategic direction, says Rasu Shrestha.
When a region’s leading healthcare providers come together to form a network to share information, millions of patients benefit. That is ultimately why a group of healthcare leaders came together to create ClinicalConnect HIE, western Pennsylvania’s first and largest health information exchange. The passage of the HITECH Act in 2009 was the primary force driving […]
Creating a PCMH
Leveraging analytics to arm docs with “more precise info”
From payer CIO to system-wide CIO
Having a “total 100 percent vision of what’s happening”
Trends in M&A
Evolent Health initiative
“We have a lot of opportunity ahead of us & we’re in a good place to make the change happen.”
UPMC Enterprises — “Incubator of ideas”
“The DNA of UPMC is innovation”
Thinking 3 or 4 moves ahead
Redefining CIO — “My role is to enable great minds to create the future through technology.”
Taking vendor relationships from contractual to strategic
The integrated delivery system model
Population health — “What’s driving it all is analytics”
