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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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Epic Installation Fuels Maine Controversy

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Ordinarily, the fact that integrated delivery system MaineHealth had spent $150 million on an Epic EMR system wouldn’t excite a lot of comment.  After all, say what you like about Epic, it doesn’t come cheaply, and a $150 million install … Continue reading →

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Hospital-Backed HIE On The Rocks

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Anne Zieger

In an all-too-familiar tale of conflict, turf wars and financial doubts, a three-year effort to bring some of the Chicago area’s largest hospitals into an HIE seems on the verge of collapse. The proposed HIE is backed by the Metropolitan … Continue reading →

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New Hospital Rockets To Top Of HIMSS EMR Adoption Scale

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Here’s a story of what can happen when a hospital starts out from scratch with the latest in EMR knowledge, rather than having to integrate its system bit by bit. Texas Health Alliance, a 50-bed acute-care hospital based in north … 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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UPMC Sinks $100MM Into Big Data

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Anne Zieger

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has announced plans to spend $100 million over five years to create a massive data warehouse, a move which puts it well at the forefront of hospital “big data” efforts. According to Information Week, … Continue reading →

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Allscripts Loses NYC Hospital Deal To Epic, Files Complaint

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Usually, battles over a hospital EMR contract fall below the radar, with only the hospital and vendors the wiser as to what took place during negotiations. But this time, we may be treated to the spectacle of seeing a large … Continue reading →

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Health Management Associates Makes System-Wide Deal With athenahealth

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Cloud-based EMR vendor Athenahealth has struck a deal with hospital chain Health Management Associates that its vendor competitors would die for. HMA has signed an agreement with athena under which the chain’s 1200+ employed physicians — cutting across 15 states and … Continue reading →

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Largest Two Kansas Health Systems Take First HIE Steps

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Anne Zieger

While the project still seems to be in its early days, the two largest health systems in Kansas have completed the first stage of connecting up to a common HIE.  The two systems did so by joining forces with KHIN, an … Continue reading →

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Connecting EMRs and Smart Pumps Proving Difficult

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Anne Zieger

As they settle into their implementation, hospitals are hoping to connect key medical devices to their EMRs. But vanishingly few have pulled off connecting one important device, the smart infusion pump, according to recent research by KLAS. KLAS’s new study … Continue reading →

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