TEXT/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 ArticleGlaser to Lead Siemens Healthcare IT
Partners HealthCare CIO John Glaser has been named CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services Business Unit, effective Aug. 16. In his role, Glaser will be responsible for leading Siemens’ global...
View ArticleGlaser & Siemens: Perfect Together?
What effect do you think John Glaser taking over could have on Siemens’ competitive strength? First off, it’s a brilliant marketing coup by Siemens: Glaser is easily the most famous CIO in the...
View ArticleKLAS: Cardiovascular IS Market Not Healthy
Thirty percent of respondents are considering replacing their cardiovascular information system (CVIS) because of frustrations with product functionality and integration, according to a new report from...
View ArticleSiemens Summer Coup
When AllScripts announced its acquisition of Eclipsys on June 9, I thought that would be the biggest healthcare IT M&A news for at least a year. But we're not even through the month and it's been...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/Soon-To-Be Siemens Health Services Business Unit CEO...
After more than 20 years with the same organization (Partners HealthCare), it’s been a year of tremendous excitement and change for VP & CIO John Glaser. That’s because just after winding up a...
View ArticleReflecting on Healthcare CIOs’ Backgrounds
Exciting news came out this week about John Glaser’s move to Siemens. We may all wonder and speculate what will be the impact on John, Siemens and the industry, but no doubt, he will help influence and...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP &...
While just about every CIO in healthcare can be described as intelligent, only a handful deserve to be called wise. One of those is undoubtedly M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's Lynn Vogel. And Vogel is...
View ArticleWhen Does an Upgrade Become an Opportunity?
A Reader Asks: "When it’s time to upgrade, how do I discern between a major and minor one? How do I decide if an upgrade is big enough that it makes sense to investigate my options with other vendors?"...
View ArticlePODCAST:KLAS Finds RIS Implementations Have Many Flavors
RIS decisions are being pulled in three different directions depending on a facility’s priorities, according to a recent KLAS report, RIS in the Middle: The Integration Tug of War. Those directions...
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/PinnacleHealth System VP & CIO Steven Roth, Chapter 3
After years on the consulting side of healthcare, Steven Roth made the jump to provider CIO by joining PinnacleHealth. And while he knew the organization had outsourced its IT shop to Siemens, Roth...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/PinnacleHealth System VP & CIO Steven Roth, Chapter 4
After years on the consulting side of healthcare, Steven Roth made the jump to provider CIO by joining PinnacleHealth. And while he knew the organization had outsourced its IT shop to Siemens, Roth...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One W/Partners HealthCare’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital CIO...
To many, Boston is the center of the HIT universe. And to put an even finer point on it, Partners HealthCare is often thought of as the center of that center. With the departure of long-time corporate...
View ArticleKLAS: Soarian Rising
After years of struggles, Soarian has achieved a pointed increase in clinical adoption and 9 percent jump in customer satisfaction, according to a new KLAS study. Customers described improvements in...
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/Erlanger Health System VP & CIO Laurene Vamprine,...
While many think being a good CIO means accommodating clinician requests, Laurene Vamprine says it takes more than that. In fact, she says if a CIO’s going to have any chance of saying ‘yes,’ the...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute VP &...
CIO roles in different industries, of course, differ vastly, but those within healthcare also have some unique attributes. Specifically, cancer center CIOs — such as Dana Farber, MD Anderson, Memorial...
View ArticlePODCAST: One-on-One w/H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute VP &...
CIO roles in different industries, of course, differ vastly, but those within healthcare also have some unique attributes. Specifically, cancer center CIOs — such as Dana Farber, MD Anderson, Memorial...
View ArticleWhich Acute EMR Vendors Have the Strongest Ambulatory Products?
A Reader Asks: Dear HIS Pros, I recently read Anthony Guerra’s article on Meditech’s ambulatory EHR situation and wanted to know your assessment of the other major inpatient vendors when it comes to...
View ArticleJohn Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 1
Fast and easy are two words only the uninitiated would use to describe a core clinical HIT system selection, and John Gaede is certainly not one of them. That’s because Gaede recently went through...
View ArticleGretchen Tegethoff, CIO, The George Washington University Hospital, Podcast...
If anyone truly represents today’s quintessential healthcare CIO, it’s GW’s Gretchen Tegethoff. That’s because she’s managed everything from getting physician buy-in on electronic documentation to...
View ArticleJohn Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast...
With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which...
View ArticleJohn Gaede, CIO, El Centro Regional Medical Center, Podcast Chapter 3
Fast and easy are two words only the uninitiated would use to describe a core clinical HIT system selection, and John Gaede is certainly not one of them. That’s because Gaede recently went through...
View ArticleJohn Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast...
With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which...
View ArticleJohn Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast...
With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which...
View ArticleCommunity Hospitals Think Other EMR Grass May Be Greener
One fifth of all community hospitals currently using EMRs plan to switch products within the next couple of years, despite fast-approaching Meaningful Use deadlines, according to a new report by KLAS,...
View ArticleKLAS Finds Patient Flow Market About to Get Crowded
While three vendors — Allscripts, McKesson, and TeleTracking — currently dominate the patient flow software market, a number of major players are set to enter the fray, according to a new report from...
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 ArticleJohn Stanley, SVP & CIO, Riverside Health System, Chapter 1
*About Riverside *An early Siemens Soarian adopter qualifies for Stage 1 *The problem with problem lists, and the goal of tying them to physician progress notes *The CPOE challenge — finding consensus...
View ArticleJohn Stanley, SVP/CIO, Riverside Health System, Chapter 3
*Siemens ambulatory question — Riverside is longtime GE Centricity (Logician) customer *Looking at some Centricity-Soarian integration *John Glaser takes the helmSource: John Stanley, SVP/CIO,...
View ArticleKLAS Finds Desire For Integrated Suites Driving CIS Purchases
While Meaningful Use dollars are driving adoption of clinical information systems, the desire for integrated software suites, across which data can easily flow, is driving the selection of particular...
View ArticleKLAS GM Mike Smith Talks Clinical Implementation Services
Whether in a leading or supporting role, third-party firms specializing in a vendor’s applications almost always implement them more adeptly than the vendor itself — often by a wide margin, according...
View ArticleKLAS Analysts Pitcher And Bird Talk Interface Engine Vendors
In a time when information exchange between applications has become the Holy Grail of healthcare IT, interface engines are more important than ever. As such, a new KLAS report looks at these important...
View ArticleKLAS Analysts Talk CPOE Adoption
Cerner and Epic hospitals are leading the CPOE-adoption pack in an industry supercharged by the passage of HITECH in early 2009, according to a new KLAS report: CPOE 2011: The ARRA Effect. (Click on...
View ArticleRich Wheatley, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1
Actively acquiring physician practices A new Siemens Soarian customer Looking at NextGen on the practice side "Siemens is evaluating their ambulatory strategy" No Stark, but facilitating HIE...
View ArticleRich Wheatley, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2
Allscripts in the ED (but looking at Siemens for the future) The Allscripts/Soarian integration, "is one of the things keeping me up at night" Moving off Meditech Magic 5.6 — "It's not sexy, bottom...
View ArticleRich Wheatley, CIO, Cape Regional Medical Center, Chapter 3
The Soarian implementation Measuring up to Meaningful Use "My concern is can the industry as a whole support the change being forced on it?" The art of vendor disengagement "ACO is not on my front...
View ArticleIntegrated Vendors ACO Favorites
While there are no one-stop shops for providers’ ACO IT needs, Cerner and Epic currently lead the way in provider confidence as being most “ACO-ready,” according to a new report from KLAS, Accountable...
View ArticleKLAS Finds Providers Behind the ICD-10 Eight Ball
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...
View ArticleKLAS: Where CIS Goes, RCM Follows
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...
View ArticleKLAS: Third Parties Edging Software Makers In Remote Hosting Race
In 2009, KLAS reported nearly all software-hosting vendors were performing better than third-party hosting firms. Since then, service firms ACS and Dell have had significantly improved satisfaction...
View ArticleWhy Is Epic The KLASiest Vendor?
The results are in: KLAS just released its “Best In KLAS” vendor scores, and guess who won in almost every category? It’s an “epic” landslide, with the folks from Verona winning in 27 of 23 categories...
View ArticlePhyllis Teater, Associate VP/CIO, Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State...
Garnering the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 award Wexner's eHealth journey Becoming an Epic shop, going big bang Getting away from best of breed Clearing the final Stage 7 hurdles Interfacing with non-Epic...
View ArticleGreg Kall, System VP/CIO, Summa Health System, Chapter 1
Going down the ACO road Running a best of breed health system (Allscripts Sunrise, QuadraMed, CPSI, HMS, McKesson Paragon, eClinicalWorks) Implementing Siemens Soarian at four hospitals in a move...
View ArticleKLAS: Epic and Cerner Gobbling Market Share
Epic and Cerner have moved into first and second place, respectively, for EMR market share in the over 200 bed market, according to findings from a new KLAS study entitled Clinical Market Share 2012:...
View ArticleMaureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 1
Governance and dotted lines Being part of a (much) larger health system Standardization versus customization Two primary clinical suites in play — Siemens Soarian & Meditech Holding off on revenue...
View ArticleMaureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 2
Engaging the docs on CPOE Developing and rolling out evidence-based order sets Order sets and the CMIO Resisting local customization Are EMRs where they need to be?Source: Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes...
View ArticleMaureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 4
Staff management Growing from within Siemens as a partner Hetu's future Having a work/life balance Source: Maureen Hetu, CIO, Lourdes Health System, Chapter 4 on healthsystemcio.com -...
View ArticleKLAS: For Community Hospitals, PACS Price Must Be Right
Value is the major concern for community hospital providers who are evaluating PACS replacements, according to new KLAS study, Community and Ambulatory PACS 2012: Questions of Value. In the community...
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