Category Archives: Healthcare CIO

Healthcare CIO

Judy Calls Epic “Most Open System I Know”

Posted on May 16, 2013 by John

After Zina Moukheiber from Forbes was declined an interview with Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic, last year Judy decided to talk to Zina about Epic in this article “An Interview With The Most Powerful Woman In Health Care.” Zina does … Continue reading →

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Structuring for the Future of Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Posted on May 10, 2013 by John

The following is a guest post by Adam Lokeh, M.D., vice president of clinical development and informatics with Wolters Kluwer Health. Clinical decision support tools (CDS) play an increasingly critical role in a healthcare organization’s overarching strategy to comply with … Continue reading →

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Many Hospital Executives Expect Big Health IT Investments This Year

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Surprise, surprise.  A new report from the Premier healthcare alliance finds that many hospital executives will make their largest capital investments in IT this year. To prepare the report, known as the spring 2013 Economic Outlook, Premier spoke with 530 … Continue reading →

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The Big Takeaways from The Breakaway Group Healthcare Forum at TEDMED

Posted on April 17, 2013 by John

I had the tremendous opportunity to spend the day hearing and interacting with a group of healthcare leaders across the entire spectrum of healthcare. I was invited to the Healthcare Forum as a guest of The Breakaway Group. They’d told … Continue reading →

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Survey: Healthcare CIOs Average $200K In Annual Base Salary

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Anne Zieger

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 drew responses from small, medium-sized, large and rural facilities, drew responses … Continue reading →

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Purging EHR Data

Posted on April 4, 2013 by John

Let’s talk about the always controversial and intriguing topic of purging EHR data. It’s something that’s no doubt talked about in every healthcare organization, but I honestly see very few people talking about it. So, let me get the discussion … Continue reading →

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Video Demo of Metro’s Point-of-Care Technologies at HIMSS13

Posted on March 21, 2013 by John

One of my goals at HIMSS is to try and give those who can’t attend HIMSS a chance to get a taste of what the experience of visiting the HIMSS exhibit hall floor is like. I’d been doing some writing … Continue reading →

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Health IT Worker Shortage Worse Than Expected

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Battered by growing needs and increasing competition, managers hiring for health IT face a worse shortage than previously expected, according to research by PwC.  Because hiring needs are so acute, many healthcare hiring executives are expecting to change strategies for … Continue reading →

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HIMSS: Hospitals Achieving Meaningful Use Milestones

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Hospitals are making good progress toward achieving Meaningful Use milestones, a new study by HIMSS suggests. HIMSS, which surveyed 298 healthcare CIOs between December and February, found that 66 percent had already qualified for Meaningful Use stage 1, while another … Continue reading →

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Real-Time Responses To EMR Training

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Teaching hospital staffers and clinicians to use your EMR is a hard enough job. Figurng out just what they didn’t learn during training is even harder. But here’s a trick some hospital administrators and IT leaders are using to do … Continue reading →

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