What Can Go Wrong With An Epic Implementation
With Epic owning the lion’s share of new EMR implementations — it has as many in progress or planned as all other major vendors combined — it’s good to stop and look at just what can go wrong with an …...
View ArticleManaging Legacy Health IT Systems
One of the realities of healthcare IT is the mass of legacy healthcare IT systems that an organization has to support. I remember one hospital CIO saying that they had over 100 different health IT...
View ArticleInterview with Dana Sellers: Encore Pay for Perfomance (P4P) Managed Services
The following is an interview with Dana Sellers, CEO of Encore Health Resources about their new Pay for Performance Managed Services offering which they’ll be sharing at HIMSS 2014. Tell us your vision...
View ArticleOutsourcing Your Disaster Recovery Team
I imagine most hospital CIOs are overwhelmed by the total number of systems and applications that they have to support. Hospital systems can have hundreds of applications that they’re required to...
View ArticleHospital EMR and EHR Recruiting
Late last year, I acquired the healthcare IT career website Healthcare IT Central. Since bringing Healthcare IT Central into the Healthcare Scene family, I’ve dove head first into the healthcare IT...
View ArticleHealthcare IT Job Corner
If you’re working in healthcare IT and haven’t checked out Healthcare IT Central, I encourage you to do so now. I acquired the site late last year and we’ve been growing it to be the leading source of...
View ArticleSutter Health Ready To Deploy HIE, But Can It Succeed?
Sutter Health doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes to EMR implementation. Late last year, when we reported that Sutter’s Epic EMR crashed for an entire day, comments came pouring in about the...
View ArticleIBM and Epic Prep for Multi Billion Dollar DoD EHR Contract
In this recent Nextgov article, they talk about what Team IBM/Epic are doing to prepare for the massive bid: On Wednesday, IBM and Epic raised the bar in their bidding strategy, announcing the...
View ArticleFour Things You Should Know About Deloitte’s “Evergreen” EHR Program
Recently, consulting giant Deloitte announced a new program, named “Evergreen,” designed to cut down the cost of implementing and operating hospital EHRs. Unfortunately, much of the Evergreen coverage...
View ArticleNYC Hospitals Face Massive Problems With Epic Install
A municipal hospital system’s Epic EMR install has gone dramatically south over the past two years, with four top officials being forced out and a budget which has more than doubled. In early 2013, New...
View ArticleHealthcare IT Market Salary Survey
For the past couple of years, we’ve helped support Greythorn’s efforts to survey the healthcare IT marketplace. The survey has always produced an interesting look into the salary, job satisfaction, and...
View ArticleAthenahealth Amps Up Drive To Build Inpatient EMR
EMR vendor athenahealth has been driving forward for a while now to build a new hospital inpatient system and fight for the big-ticket customers in acute care. Given the intense competition for the...
View ArticleTelemedicine A Growing Priority For Hospitals
Telemedicine programs are not new to hospitals. In fact, tele-stroke and tele-ICU programs have gained significant ground over the past several years, and other subspecialties, such as tele-psychiatry,...
View ArticleFrom Epic Staffer To Epic Consultant
Since many readers may have considered such a move, I was interested to read an interview with a woman who had transitioned from an Epic-based staff position at hospital to a consulting gig. Here are...
View ArticleAppointment Scheduling Site Zocdoc Connects With Epic
In a bid to capture hospital and health system business, appointment scheduling site Zocdoc announced that its customers can now connect the site to their Epic EMRs via an API. The updated Zocdoc...
View ArticleEHR Data Migration – Tackling EHR & EMR Transition Series
(See Full EHR Data Migration Infographic) In this infographic, Galen Healthcare Solutions provides critical information and statistics pertaining to EHR data migration including: Healthcare Data Growth...
View ArticleDecommissioning Legacy EHR systems with Data Archival – Tackling EHR & EMR...
In their latest infographic (Check out the full infographic, Galen Healthcare Solutions provides critical information and statistics surrounding EMR data archival including: Healthcare Data Growth...
View Article10 Reasons for Full EHR Data Migration – Tackling EHR & EMR Transition Series
(Check Out the Full Top 10 Reasons for EHR Data Migration Infographic) At Galen Healthcare Solutions we’ve found some important considerations and benefits during EHR data migration, including: Legacy...
View ArticleShould You Buy Pop Health Tools And EMRs From One Vendor?
According to a new story appearing in HealthITAnalytics, EMR vendors are increasingly moving into the population health management space. In fact, according to an IDC Research market report featured in...
View ArticleRumor Control: These are the Facts
Why is it that one of the largest challenges on any project is miscommunication and out of control rumors? While many projects need and would benefit from more communication, even with the best of...
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