Athens Medical Center Picks PeakPractice
Athens Regional Medical Center, a 375-bed regional referral center located in Athens, Ga., has selected Eclipsys PeakPractice EMR/PM solution. As a current user of Eclipsys’ integrated clinical system...
View ArticleKLAS: Reporting a Struggle in Amb. Meaningful Use
Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory EMR will enable them meet the proposed 2011 meaningful use deadlines, according to a report from KLAS. Among the study respondents,...
View ArticleKLAS: Enterprise ED Gaining Steam, but at a Price
An increasing number of hospitals are replacing standalone, best-of-breed emergency department software with enterprise solutions that foster better integration —but many of those enterprise solutions...
View ArticleKLAS: Amongst Vendors, Cerner a Cordial Host
When it comes to application hosting, healthcare providers are finding greater success working with vendors, but are able to host a wider selection of applications by partnering with services firms,...
View ArticleOne-on-One w/KLAS Clinical GM Jason Hess (II)
Before the term HIE appeared in the pages of HITECH, many CIOs didn’t pay it much attention, preferring instead to focus on getting their houses in order. While that’s still a great strategy,...
View ArticleOne-on-One w/eCW CEO Girish Kumar Navani (II)
While there is no doubt health system CIOs are working 18-hour days just to keep their heads above water, major inpatient and outpatient EMR vendors have significant to-do lists as well. From HITECH...
View ArticleEclipsys Unlocks the Door
Eclipsys has released “Helios by Eclipsys,” an open architecture platform that — in conjunction with company-provided software development kits — will allow certified third parties to natively write...
View ArticleVersion Vexation
Wanting to get to meaningful use? Well, better make sure you are on the right version of your vendor’s software. Serious upgrades are in the works if you are a McKesson, Meditech or Siemens customer....
View ArticleWhat Changes at the Top Mean to You
President Obama must be feeling pretty good about his recent victory in the healthcare reform movement. It is amazing to see the change in direction that can occur when a new chief executive takes...
View ArticleTEXT/PODCAST: KLAS Reports on Amb. EMR Buying
With more hospitals leveraging the Stark relaxations to underwrite EMRs for local practices, it’s incumbent for CIOs to know that market inside and out. Developing a sound short-list of vendors to...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead
While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar....
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Microsoft Health Solutions Corporate VP Peter Neupert
Microsoft’s movement into healthcare has been slow, deliberate and fascinating. With products that now range from a PHR platform (HealthVault) to single-sign-functionality (Sentillion) to an...
View ArticleAllscripts & Eclipsys to Combine in HIT Mega-Merger
Allscripts and Eclipsys are merging in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, will be the CEO of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and...
View ArticleAllscripts, Eclipsys & The Costs of Mega-Mergers
When HITECH passed with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in January of 2009, many people thought healthcare organizations — both hospitals and physician practices — would immediately flood...
View ArticleCan AllScripts & Eclipsys Integrate?
“From a technology point of view, how difficult will it be to truly integrate the Allscripts ambulatory product/s with the Eclipsys inpatient product/s. How long might it take?” Good question, and...
View ArticleTEXT/PODCAST — KLAS Finds Hospitals/Vendors Face Mammoth CPOE Challenges
U.S. hospitals have "a long way to go" to reach the federal government’s proposed standard of entering at least 10 percent of orders electronically, according to the annual CPOE report from KLAS. Like...
View ArticleSnapSurvey Says: Poor Communication = Bad Acquisition
Immediate outreach to hospital customers by vendors involved in M&A activity is critical to the future of those relationships, said the vast majority of CIOs in the most recent healthsystemCIO.com...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/ El Camino Hospital CIO Greg Walton, Chapter 2
Implementing a few clinical systems isn’t going to get you applause at El Camino Hospital. That’s because the organization has “been there, done that,” implementing the first CPOE system some 40 years...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Claire Regional Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Randy...
After 14 years with St. Claire Regional Medical Center, you might think Randy McCleese has done it all, but you’d be wrong. That’s because the CIO is just now embarking on a new core clinical install...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Beaufort Memorial Hospital VP of IS & CIO Ed Ricks,...
Though there are thousands of Meditech hospitals, only a handful are in the in the process of migrating from the Magic to 6.0 platform. Of course, those hospitals (and their CIOs) are being watched...
View ArticleKLAS: CIOs Must Consider Total Cost of Ownership
Sticker price is only one, and may not even be the most important, factor to consider when evaluating an EMR purchase, according to a new report from KLAS — Acute Care EMR, Getting Your Money’s Worth:...
View ArticlePODCAST – KLAS: Epic, Cerner Dominate CIS Landscape
Nearly 70 percent of CIS purchases in 2009 by hospital over 200 beds were an Epic or Cerner integrated solution, according to a new KLAS report, "CIS Purchase Decisions: Riding the ARRA Wave." In 2009,...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/”The New” Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, Chapter 1
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/”The New” Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, Chapter 2
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/”The New” Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, Chapter 3
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a...
View ArticleTEXT/PODCAST – KLAS Perception Report Portends MU Winners and Losers
With Meaningful Use requirements in mind, hospitals with fewer than 150 beds are focusing less on traditional community CIS vendors and more on large hospital CIS vendors, according to a new KLAS...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Trinitas Regional Medical Center VP of IT & CIO Judy...
Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the...
View ArticleTEXT/PODCAST – KLAS Finds Integration To Trump Functionality in the ED
Integration is a key focus for many hospitals considering ED strategies to help satisfy Meaningful Use objectives, and many are willing to sacrifice some functionality today for integration and...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Trinitas Regional Medical Center VP of IT & CIO Judy...
Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Trinitas Regional Medical Center VP of IT & CIO Judy...
Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the...
View ArticleDenis Baker, VP & CIO, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Podcast Chapter 1
After 16 years in the healthcare IT department at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, if Denis Baker hasn’t seen it all, he sure has seen most of it. But the pace of change in healthcare is forcing even...
View ArticleDenis Baker, VP & CIO, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Podcast Chapter 2
After 16 years in the healthcare IT department at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, if Denis Baker hasn’t seen it all, he sure has seen most of it. But the pace of change in healthcare is forcing even...
View ArticleTim Moore, SVP/CIO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Transcript/Podcast...
It was going to take a lot to draw Tim Moore back into the workforce. That’s because Moore had been there, done that. He’d found success in all his career endeavors, made some money and bought some...
View ArticleMike Smith, General Manager, KLAS, Discusses IT Outsourcing Trends
The majority (60 percent) of healthcare organizations that have engaged a firm for discrete IT services reported seeing more value for their IT dollars since outsourcing, according to a new KLAS report...
View ArticleDavid Miller, Vice Chancellor/CIO, University of Arkansas for Medical...
*Moving from University of Chicago Medical Center to UAMS *Taking on a larger role, relocating *About UAMS *Best of breed (Eclipsys, GE, McKesson) with an eye towards an enterprise future *"A...
View ArticlePatrick Neece, CIO, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1
An Allscripts (Eclipsys) shop McKesson Series on the financial side Stage 6 HIMSS Analytics What it takes to gain traction with advanced clinicals The key to CPOE (and electronic documentation)
View ArticlePatrick Neece, CIO, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2
Effects of the Eclipsys acquisition What it means to truly "partner" with a vendor iSirona for device connectivity Integrating with physician offices for HIE Tackling quality measures
View ArticleTom Stride, VP/CIO, Aria Health, Chapter 1
Allscripts (Eclipsys) Version 5.5 Shop 96 percent CPOE Hospital/physician practice integration with dbMotion Since the merger … Integrating the independents
View ArticleBarbara Riddell, VP/CIO, Atlantic General Hospital, Chapter 1
"How you manage a record for a population that's coming and going?" The importance of real, regional HIE Becoming an Allscripts (Eclipsys) inpatient shop Goldilocks governance —not too much, not too...
View ArticleWhat Does The Allscripts Stock Collapse Really Mean for Customers?
The Allscripts stock collapse? It’s sad news for the investors, but the impact on the many former Eclipsys clients is a different story entirely. Just what is the relationship between a company’s stock...
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