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| Sunday, 01 November 2009 07:00 |
Worth a Read: Articles of Interest to the Healthcare IT FieldOne-on-One With Mercy Medical Center CIO Jeff Cash Mercy Medical Center is a fully-accredited 445 licensed-bed regional hospital located in eastern Iowa. After surviving flooding in 2008, vice president and CIO Jeff Cash had to figure out how his organization was going to survive a move to CPOE and electronic documentation with his Meditech Magic system. Cash wound up turning to PatientKeeper as a way to enhance Meditech’s front-end user interface while keeping his core system intact. Recently, HCI Editor-in-Chief Anthony Guerra had a chance to talk with Cash about these and other issues. Part I -- Jeff Cash says PatientKeeper has given his Meditech CIS a sweet looking front end. Part II -- In this part of our interview, Cash says the big acute EMR vendors aren’t all that interested in a hospital’s CPOE problems. Part III -- In this part of our interview, Cash says expecting physicians to learn multiple inpatient EMRs is a recipe for disaster. A Single SourceBy: Mark Hagland Healthcare Informatics, November, 2009 Part 1: Making It Count -- With an eye on connectivity and integration with other systems, three CIOs are creating new models for image management. Part 2: A Broad Spectrum -- In an evolving vendor market, customer perceptions of imaging IT solutions run the gamut, say experts. Hitting Snooze on HITECH We can all take some lessons from the experiences of getting ready for Y2K and HIPAA. War on talent about to begin in healthcare IT The government's piece of the stimulus package aimed at boosting the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expected to create 50,000 new jobs – maybe more. Five Lessons on How to Get Physicians to Adopt CPOE While “physician buy-in” is a key component to successfully implementing CPOE, good old-fashioned dogged persistence mustn’t be forgotten. Galway hospital begins archiving as it moves to EHR The Galway Clinic, a 126-bed hospital in Ireland, is implementing a data archiving and management solution to support its move toward an electronic health record. |
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