Did Epic Kiss Off A California Customer (And Try to Get Its CIO Fired)?
If Cerner, Siemens, GE, McKesson or Allscripts have ever tried the following, I’ve never heard about it. So before you complain that we’re turning this site into the “I Hate Epic Weekly,” consider the...
View ArticleFive Reasons To Be Thankful For Your EMR
‘Tis the time of year to count our blessings, and since we’re here to talk about EMRs, what better time to consider the blessings EMR adoption has brought us. After all of the expense and time and...
View ArticleHospitals with EMRs, HIEs Serious About Cloud Possibilities
For a few years, the notion of cloud-based data sharing has been a least a bit controversial, with questions of security, control, throughput and the like slowing down adoption. But it seems like...
View ArticleHospital EHR Device Integration
This week has been pretty crazy for me as I’ve been attending three conferences back to back. Plus, the conference in the middle is the 120,000 person CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. The...
View ArticleSurvey: Healthcare CIOs Average $200K In Annual Base Salary
While numbers varied widely depending on organizational factors, healthcare CIOs earned an average base salary of $208,417 in 2012, according to a recent survey conducted by CHIME. The survey, which...
View ArticleHospital CIO Challenges at CHIME13
For those who haven’t discovered my new EHR video website, you should go check it out now and sign up for it’s email list. I’ll be doing regular interviews with some of the top healthcare IT leaders in...
View ArticleMarc Probst Takes Aim at Meaningful Use in Interview at CHIME
One of the must read interviews coming out of the CHIME Fall Forum is Mark Hagland’s interview with Marc Probst. We know that Marc Probst had a growing dissatisfaction with meaningful use after he said...
View ArticleCIOs Want More Responsibility — And It’s About Time They Get It
The life of a healthcare CIO is a tough one. More than ever before, healthcare CIOs walk a fine line between producing great technical results and thinking strategically about how technology serves...
View ArticleAre CIOs Now Vendor Management Organizations?
Over my past 11 years blogging on healthcare IT, I’ve seen a dramatic shift in the role a CIO plays in healthcare organizations. This was highlighted really well to me in a recent interview I did with...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Managing So Many Vendors
The more I talk to CIOs, the more I realize that CIO at a hospital and health system is as much about vendor management as it is anything else. And quite frankly, those CIOs are tired and overwhelmed...
View ArticleWho’s Over MACRA? CIO? COO?
In no surprising way, MACRA is a major topic in pretty much every hospital and health system in the US. There’s a lot of money to be had or lost with MACRA. This is especially true for health systems...
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Changing Leadership’s Mentality to Be More Agile
It’s become increasingly clear that most healthcare CIOs have become leaders and vendor managers. The CIO of today needs to have an understanding of technology, but the majority of their job is...
View ArticleThe Leadership Demands of Value Based Care
The following is a guest blog post by Mary Sirois and Heather Haugen PhD from Atos Digital Health Solutions. The topics of Population Health and Value Based Care continue to swirl through nearly every...
View ArticleNew INFRAM Model Creates Healthcare Infrastructure Benchmarks
During the frenzy that was healthcare organizations rushing to implement EHRs and chase government money, it was amazing to see so many other projects get left behind. One of the biggest areas that got...
View ArticleWill Remote Medical Coders Ever Return to the Hospital? – HIM Scene
This week on the Journal of AHIMA blog, Elena Miller, Director of Coding Audit and Education at a healthcare system, posted this really fascinating question: Will Coders Ever Return to the Office?...
View ArticleProviders Tell KLAS That Existing EMRs Can’t Handle Genomic Medicine
Providers are still in the early stages of applying genomics to patient care. However, at least among providers that can afford the investment, clinical genomics programs are beginning to become far...
View ArticleFrom Fragmented to Coordinated: The Big Data Challenge
The following is a guest blog post by Patty Sheridan, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA; SVP, Life Sciences at Ciox. When healthcare organizations have access to as much data as possible, that translates into improved...
View ArticleA Digital Roadmap to Improved Patient Access – An Interview with Richard...
We recently interviewed Richard McNeight, Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer at Health First, to learn about there efforts to implement new patient access and provider data management...
View ArticleThe FHIR Backpedal, Voice Interfaces, OpenNotes, and Complacency – Twitter...
Let’s take a quick trip around the Twittersphere and share some of the best healthcare related tweets we’ve seen recently. Plus, we’ll add a little commentary for each tweet as well. We hope you’ll add...
View ArticleUkulele Serenade for a Thankless Healthcare Job
The following is a guest blog post by CT Lin MD, CMIO at University of Colorado Health. I just spent some time on the phone with an informatics colleague going through a particularly tough time with an...
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