Category Archives: Hospital IT Budget

Hospital IT Budget

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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Healthcare Big Data Trends Leading To Analytics Spending

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Ready to exploit big data? So are your competitors, and they’re preparing to spend big bucks in areas where they’ve historically been weak, such as predictive analytics and data discovery, reports  HealthcareITNews. Technology vendor Lavastorm Analytics recently surveyed more than 600 … 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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How Danish Leaders Are Choosing Their EMR

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Anne Zieger

This is something you don’t see every day. Courtesy of my always-on-top-of-things colleague John, here’s a look at the process by which Danish government authorities are selecting an EMR for the Capital Region of Denmark. As the TBKConsult blog notes, … Continue reading →

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DoD, VA Plan To Streamline EMR Integration Effort

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Anne Zieger

The Department of Defense and VA have decided to change the way they integrate their two EMRs, in an effort they say will lower the cost and speed the pace of interoperating.  The new approach is expected to offer at … Continue reading →

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Level the Playing Field with RACs as They Enter Practice Settings

Posted on February 5, 2013 by John

Lori Brocato is Director of Audit at HealthPort. With more than 15 years in health care technology, Lori serves as HealthPort’s resident government and third party audit expert, sharing educational information and best practices with health care facilities via Webinars, … Continue reading →

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What Would It Take To Get More Hospitals On VistA?

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Recently, we shared the story of of a California community hospital that decided to bypass big vendors like Cerner and Epic and go for a VistA installation instead. While Oroville Hospital ended up spending $10 million on its VistA implementation, … Continue reading →

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A Hospital Chooses VistA EMR Over The Giants

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Here’s a story out of the pages of Forbes which should make open source advocates happy. In it, we hear the tale of a northern California hospital which decided to buck corporate trends and go with VistA rather than pay … Continue reading →

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Oops! Community Hospitals Unhappy With EMR Purchase

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Anne Zieger

A new report from KLAS seems to confirm what we all know already — that buying an EMR is a tricky business that can easily end in failure.  The new KLAS report found that increasingly, community hospitals are questioning whether … Continue reading →

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EMR Issues To Address In 2013

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Anne Zieger

So, we’re coming up on 2013, dragging many of the issues that dogged 2012 right along with us.  My theory is that many of the following are likely to linger through next  year as well, though maybe I’m being too … Continue reading →

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