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Spending New Year’s Eve supporting a Meditech go-live is not exactly how most people define fun, but it is how many at our hospital spent transitioning from 2011 to 2012. I heard someone state, “Wow, this go-live is just like Y2K; a non-event.” What most CIOs will tell you is that the main reason . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 16 – Preparation Pays Off “4 days to go live” — those words can instill fear into even the most seasoned CIO if the comfort level that everything is ready to go is not there. Luckily for me, I have a great team and, while there are still minor concerns, we are where we need to be for a . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 15 – A Time Crunch In The Final Month Discusses Her CHIME Member-To-Member Survey On IT Steering Committees, Chapter 1 The regulatory requirements that CIOs are grappling with are overwhelming enough—throw in a major leadership change, and it can feel like being caught in a whirlwind. It’s how Kim Ligon felt when DCH Health System had a new CFO take the helm just . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Kim Ligon, CIO, DCH Health System For Robert Slepin, health information technology has never been an end in its own right, but rather a tool that can be used to improve individual and population health. In this interview, Slepin discusses his organization’s goal of getting its hospitals and physician network on Epic in 2012, best practices for disengaging with vendors, . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Robert Slepin, VP/CIO, John C. Lincoln Health Network, Chapter 1 When I worked for the military we used to say that we train today so we don’t bleed tomorrow. The same is true in our journey to a Meditech 6.x go-live. Over the past months, I have written 14 articles about our journey to Meditech 6.x. Much of the material has focused on our . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 14 – Coming Down To The Wire 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 . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com | KLAS: Where CIS Goes, RCM Follows Less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are over halfway there in terms of being fully prepared for ICD-10, according to the KLAS report, ICD-10: Preparing for October 2013. While providers know a lack of preparation could result in a halt to reimbursements and a revenue cycle disaster when ICD-10 comes, KLAS found that most . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO: KLAS Finds Providers Behind the ICD-10 Eight Ball After years of anticipation at the coming of Version 6.0, some Meditech clients are canceling go lives mid-implementation and trialing competing products, according to a new report from KLAS —MEDITECH V.6 2011: Expectations Meet Reality. Though Meditech v.6 is live at over 50 sites with another 150 contracted, the report points to a “premature . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: KLAS: Meditech 6.0 Leaves ‘Em Wanting As summer moves into fall, we progress from dictionary build to a greater testing focus. For 6.06 Service Release 1 (SR1), which Meditech loaded for us, there are over 8008 Meditech Development Tracking System test scenarios that need to be addressed. Many of these may not apply to your environment, as they may be . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 13 – An Exercise In Timing and Trajectory Best-of-breed vendors tend to score higher than enterprise players across the board in the homecare market for meeting complex CMS regulations, but have little to offer providers in the way of interoperability, according to a new KLAS report, Homecare 2011: New Expectations, New Market Energy. But even enterprise vendors, which typically have the integration . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: KLAS Finds Integration, ROI Hamper Homecare Market |
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