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
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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 Well, it’s been a couple of months since my last post and I’ve spent an enormous amount of time working through issues and changes proposed by our strike team. Things on our project are getting better and better, but we still have plenty of challenges. As well, with summer out of the way and . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: Prepping For Meditech Medication Verification Throughout history, it’s been individuals willing to take advantage of opportunities — and in the process risk failure — who have achieved great things. Left by the wayside are those who could not muster the courage to act and, perhaps even more sadly, those for whom history’s stage never drew back its curtain — . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: When Opportunity Knocks, Open The Door It’s a problem many CIOs know all too well. As the pressures mount to meet Meaningful Use requirements, they’re finding resources are already stretched thin, and the supply of individuals with both clinical and technical expertise dangerously low. George Evans wanted to know how his colleagues were facing the challenge of too many high-priority . . . → Read More: healthsystemCIO.com: George Evans VP/CIO, St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System, Discusses His CHIME Survey on Building An Informatics Staff, Chapter 2 |
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