by administrator on May 1, 2012, at 12:34 pm
Many healthcare CIOs have argued for ages that Meditech’s large market-share has caused them to be a bit less than responsive to customer needs and somewhat rigid in their delivery of service, along with being more focused on their internal business drivers than their customer’s desires. I must admit to having been one of those CIOs, but a recent meeting with Meditech senior leadership has given me much cause for hope. And it seems that Meditech may truly be more interested in their customers than they have previously exhibited — at least from my perspective.
Read more at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on April 27, 2012, at 12:13 pm
Attend this forum to hear physicians discuss a variety of issues related to Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). Topics will range from oversight of the project, standardization issues, engagement of practicing physicians, training, ongoing support, order sets, policies, and more.
Facilitator
Dr. Jeff Sippel, Co-CMIO at Centura Health (Englewood, Colorado) will pose a number of thought-provoking questions to four physicians to hear their experienced responses regarding CPOE challenges. Join us to hear from the physician experts, and to ask your questions!
Dr. Jeff Sippel
Co-CMIO, Centura Health, Englewood, Colorado
Dr. Jeff Sippel has received advanced degrees and board certifications from three universities (Vanderbilt, Univ. of Colorado, and Oregon Health Sciences). He practices pulmonary and critical care medicine, and is the managing partner for his 17-member group. He is keenly interested in his CMIO role for several reasons, including improving health outcomes through maximizing use of clinical data.
Panelists
Dr. Roger Gildersleeve
Roger Gildersleeve, MD is a practicing hospitalist and CMIO at Augusta Health, in Fishersville, VA. He has a Certificate in Clinical Informatics from Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Charles W. Olson
Dr. Charles W. Olson is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has been a member of the Active Medical Staff in the Emergency Department at Stillwater Medical Center since 1999. He is currently the CPOE Physician Champion for Stillwater Medical Center.
Dr. Angela Tiberio
Dr. Angela Tiberio is the Associate CMO, Vice President, Physician Operations with Dearborn Advisors. She has over 20 years of clinical and healthcare information technology experience. In her role with Dearborn Advisors, Dr. Tiberio is highly experienced in clinician adoption strategies for CPOE and other EHR initiatives and in application of evidence-based principles to EHR implementation
Dr. Suresh K. Nekuri, JD, MBA
Dr. Nekuri is the Medical Director/Hospitalist at Roane Medical Center / Covenant Health in Knoxville, TN. He is a Physician Consultant and Member of the Steering Committee at Covenant Health involved with software development, order set development, and the implementation of the Computer Order Entry System for eight hospitals.
Learn more about the Physician Summit at MUSE.
by administrator on April 26, 2012, at 12:15 pm
Join MUSE for three full days of educational presentations focusing on technical issues
Each day ends with an engaging Summit facilitated by two prominent CIOs:
Ken Kupetsky, VP/CIO,
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, Bayside, New York
Bill McQuaid, CIO,
Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Brunswick, Maine
Technology Track – Access
(Wednesday May 30)
Make That to Go – How Secure Roaming Desktops Transformed Technology from Adversary to Productivity Tool for Clinicians at Augusta Health
Presenter: Bruce Hall, Augusta Health, Fishersville, Virginia
How to Win Friends and Influence Doctors: Physician Engagement Helps Beaufort Memorial Hospital Reach Stage 1 and Beyond
Presenter: Ed Ricks, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Beaufort, South Carolina
Everything Remote: How a 55-bed Hospital in Maine Changed the Rules of the Game without Blowing the IT Budget
Presenter: Bill McQuaid, Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Brunswick, Maine
Access Summit
Join MUSE for discussions regarding software and hardware devices currently used for access, and the configuration and maintenance of such systems.
Hardware Summit
Join us for discussion regarding hardware used in 6.x platform – from servers to storage to backup to peripheral devices (ex. scanners).
Technology Track – More!
(Friday June 1)
Technical Device Considerations for EMAR/BMV Systems Implementation
Presenter: Charles Still, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Bennington, Vermont
Interfacing Summit
Attend this forum to discuss current interface engine platforms and how they are used in HIEs and ancillary systems.
Learn more.
by administrator on April 26, 2012, at 9:56 am
New Mexico hospital recommends advance planning for attestation success.
MEDITECH customer Gila Regional Medical Center (Silver City, NM) recently attested for Stage 1 Meaningful Use, qualifying for both Medicare and Medicaid payments. But David Furnas, CIO of the HIMSS Stage 6 recipient, points out the benefits have been more than monetary—attesting for Meaningful Use has also improved Gila’s quality of care.
“Thanks to electronic ordering in the ED, we’re seeing improved response times and quicker medication dispensing,” says Furnas. “Without Meaningful Use, we may not have achieved that level of functionality for another year or two.”
by administrator on April 25, 2012, at 11:26 am
You won’t want to miss the 2012 CIO Executive Institute at the MUSE International Conference.
Get these questions answered:
- What’s new with MEDITECH?
- What’s new with HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 models?
- Plans for integrating and standardizing across your organization?
- How does a CIO adapt to Meaningful Use?
- What’s new with CHIME?
You’ll also be able to network with other MEDITECH CIO’s throughout the day.
The Journey Forward – Leveraging a Customer-Driven Service Model
Helen Waters, VP Client Services, MEDITECH
How to Drive Integration and Standardization into a Large Health System
Dana Moore, Senior VP and CIO,
Centura Health, Englewood, Colorado
Adapting to the Meaningful Use Era as a CIO
Chris Baldwin, VP of IS,
Southcoast Health System, New Bedford, Massachusetts
CHIME Advocacy Efforts
Randy McCleese, VP of IS and CIO,
St. Claire Regional Medical Center, Morehead, Kentucky
HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model: Path & Progress
John Daniels, Vice President of Healthcare Organizational Services, HIMSS Analytics
Facilitators:
Bill McQuaid, CIO,
Parkview Adventist Medical Center, Brunswick, Maine
Ken Kupetsky, VP & CIO,
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, Bayside, New York
The CIO Executive Institute will be presented on Tuesday May 29.
Attendance at this event is included with your conference registration. There is no additional fee.
Learn more.
by administrator on April 13, 2012, at 11:09 am
Thoughts from our President
While most of us have enjoyed a mild winter, the weather has resulted in some unanticipated consequences impacting discussions we have had with some of our clients. Many hospitals in the northern half of the country have correlated their failure to meet inpatient volume projections with a limited flu season and significantly fewer accidents and falls associated with ice and snow.
As hospitals invest in information systems to prepare and manage pending reimbursement changes associated with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and bundled payments, this winter reminds us that often greater forces are in play making financial management of hospitals particularly challenging. For those hospitals with some capitated or managed contracts, the benefits of reduced accidents and illness should translate into greater margins while fee for service providers are realizing budget deficits.
One of the reoccurring discussions we had at the HIMSS conference was the difficulty of managing the transition into health population management from fee for service while the reimbursement structures remain uncertain. We certainly do not pretend to have any answers to these futuristic questions but thought an acknowledgement of the weather and its financial impact on hospitals might be worth sharing.
In the March Issue:
MEDITECH Increases Capacity: 6.0 Implementations
Meaningful Use: MEDITECH Updates
Event: MEDITECH’s CIO Forum
Event: MEDITECH’s Physician Forum
Event: MEDITECH’s Nursing Forum
Dates Added: MEDITECH’s “Optimizing Your System” Series
Job Posts
Read the Navin, Haffty Newsletter.
by administrator on April 10, 2012, at 3:31 pm
When he was named CIO at Southern Illinois Healthcare three years ago, two of Dave Holland’s key goals were to reverse the trend of project delays at the five-hospital organization, and to help narrow the gap between IT and clinicians staff. His team is addressing both issues by surging ahead with a big Meditech upgrade and establishing a rounding system that will enable the IT staff to better understand how implementations impact clinicians.
Chapter 4
- Lessons learned from IT rounding
- Increasing physician engagement
- “I love being a CIO”
- Getting clinician feedback
- Looking at system failures — not individual mistakes
- The challenge for CIOs going forward
Read more. or listen to the podcast at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on April 3, 2012, at 10:58 am
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital is one of hundreds of hospitals across the country that have received funds for electronic health records.
The money comes from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 billion law known as the stimulus. The $19.2 billion for health records provides incentive payments to hospitals and doctors’ offices that demonstrate they are using approved electronic health record systems.
The money is a reward for hospitals that create and implement electronic health records system. The federal program – called the HITECH Act – places multiple requirements on hospitals to institute electronic health records by 2016, with early adopters receiving incentive payments while stragglers could be hit with fund reductions.
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital instituted its system with an upgrade from Westwood-based Meditech. Christian Renaux, the hospital’s assistant chief information officer, said the upgrade cost less than $500,000.
Read more at Enterprisenews.com.
by administrator on April 3, 2012, at 10:09 am
Chapter 3
- Improving project prioritization
- Meditech 5.6 upgrade
- Getting the organization to realize “these are not IT projects”
- From chief information officer to chief innovation officer
- IT as an enabler
- Implementing single sign-on
Read more or listen to the podcast at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on March 27, 2012, at 1:22 pm
When he was named CIO at Southern Illinois Healthcare three years ago, two of Dave Holland’s key goals were to reverse the trend of project delays at the five-hospital organization, and to help narrow the gap between IT and clinicians staff. His team is addressing both issues by surging ahead with a big Meditech upgrade and establishing a rounding system that will enable the IT staff to better understand how implementations impact clinicians. In the meantime, Holland is focused on building an HIE within the organization, establishing a PHO to improve outcomes for chronic disease patients, and driving EHR adoption among physicians. In this interview, Holland talks about the HIE picture in Illinois, transitioning to a true EHR environment that will enable clinical decision support, and what it takes to change the culture of an organization.
Chapter 2
- Shaping the HIE picture in Illinois
- “It’s an evolutionary, not revolutionary process”
- The franchise model vs the monolithic model
- Piloting CPOE with hospitalists
- Automating data movement between the Lawson & Meditech systems
- Creating a centralized cardiology imaging system
Learn more at healthsystemCIO.
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