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Why bother with an RFP for EHR?

HIT Strategy; without one, do not take out your checkbook. Buying what your neighbor bought, and assuming they did their homework, is not a strategy. Buying something because the sales-rep told you they had an amazing list of client references is not a strategy. These are shortcuts. Have you noticed...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 9:53 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR, will EHR work, EMR

Some vendors are like a fine wine

Have a vendor for dinner tonight. Fashion can be reinvented every 6 months, healthcare can’t. That’s plenty of reason to try to get EHR/HIT right. Remember this little principle; DIRT-FIT–Do It Right The First Time. Don’t know how? There are some who do. There is even a larger group who think they do...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 9:56 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR

The most relevant EHR/EMR piece you will ever read

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, somewhere north of fifty percent of EHR implementations fails. Your odds of success are no greater than the flip of a coin. What if there is a tool whose use can stop the failure of most EMR system implementations? The purpose of this post is to let Read...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2010 9:20 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR vendors, Who's Running the Show?, EHR, electronic health record, user acceptance, will EHR work, Work Flows, hospitals

The definitive EHR Buying Guide

EHR Buying Guide—Vendor darts So, here’s the thing with what a lot of EHR vendors seem to view as the lower end of the food chain, chum worthy customers—Hospitals, IPAs, group and individual practices. Vendor darts. I can’t tell you the number of providers with whom I’ve spoke who’ve had to navigate...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2010 7:08 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, Who's Running the Show?, EHR, healthcare 2.0, business model

EHR market share

The link below takes you to a post written by Software Advice’s Chris Thorman regarding the market share for inpatient and outpatient EHRs. It is designed to be a collaborative piece, and Chris is asking for feedback and correction. I found it to be a well-written and helpful piece, perhaps you...

Published Sat, May 05 2010 11:57 AM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, General HIT, EHR

The User’s Role in EHR–a PowerPoint presentation

This link will take you to a slideshare,net presentation that defines how healthcare providers can take control of the EHR project. I welcome your comments. http://www.slideshare.net/paulroemer/the-users-role-in-ehr Paul M. Roemer Chief Imaginist, Healthcare IT Strategy 1475 Luna Drive, Downingtown,...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 8:05 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR vendors, Who's Running the Show?, EHR, user acceptance, will EHR work, Work Flows, EMR

Puppy Training Your Vendor

Carrie Vaughan, a senior editor of HealthLeaders Magazine published an article in the December 8, 2009 issue titled, “Tips to Build a Successful Vendor-Provider Partnership.” The link to her article is http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-2/MAG-243167/Avoid-the-Vendor-Upsell. The points about which...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 5:10 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR

Published on HealthSystemCIO.com–vendor darts

Below is the full article I submitted to HealthsystemCIO.com, Anthony Guerra’s outstanding site for healthcare leaders. As always, I am flattered that he finds my contributions worthwhile. Is there a best Electronic Health Records system? Perhaps Cerner, EPIC, GE, or McKesson? For those who have...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 2:09 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: CIO, informatics, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR, will EHR work

Users are from Mercury, IT is from Pluto

The two groups are often far apart. I learned an interesting word which led to some very interesting reading on the topic. The word and topic are qualia (pl). There are several wordy explanations with which I won’t waste your time. Daniel Dennett identified four properties that are commonly ascribed...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 2:00 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: PMO, Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR vendors, EHR

Your EHR contract–Until death do us part?

That’s a long time. There are those who suggest that statement sort of takes away any incentive they had to live forever. They wonder why it couldn’t be somewhat less restrictive like, “for the foreseeable future,” or “until one of us gets bored,” or “renewable every four years.” Till death do you part...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 2:13 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, Who's Running the Show?, EHR

Comparing EHRs–like measuring how wet is water

The following is a reply I wrote to John’s post at emrandhipaa.com on EMR Key Differentiators. http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2010/03/07/emr-key-differentiators/comment-page-1/#comment-122817 You are spot-on with your comment about the requirement that they be measurable. Otherwise everyone...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2010 3:05 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR, electronic health record, healthcare 2.0

A scathing rebuke of EHR

I encourage anyone with an EHR or thinking of getting an EHR to read this. I do not think it is a unique story. I recently spent an hour with my cardiologist. He is employed by a very large teaching hospital. After checking my vitals, listening to my heart, and asking a few questions, he moved [...]...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2010 4:12 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, planning, EHR vendors, patient relationship management, EHR, electronic health record, will EHR work

AN EHR introspective–my cardiologist and me

The doc did not smile Nor did I on that day. So we sat in his office Wondering each what to say It was me and my Doctor. We sat there, we two. And he said, “How I wish You had something to do!” “You drove all this way Your one visit a year. You sit there like a plant This must seem quite...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 7:44 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Rants & Musings, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR, electronic health record, will EHR work

EHR: the uncertainty of certitude

When I was living in Colorado and much younger my friend and I decided that instead of running during our lunch break we would sit in on an aerobics class. Our plan was to hide away in the back of the class, watch the ladies, and then head back to the office. No sweat—literally, that [...] Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 2:45 PM by Healthcare IT: How good is your strategy?

Filed under: Strategy, Vendors-What's not to like?, EHR vendors, EHR, electronic health record

EHR: How do you avoid failing?

I may have mentioned that I’m a runner. In high school and college I’d run anytime, anywhere. I ran cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, and AAU– kept my hair tied back in a ponytail—I miss the hair. Those were the days. I was the captain of the cross-country team during my senior...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2009 11:43 AM by EHR: How difficult is it without the correct strategy?

Filed under: CIO, CMIO, PMO, EHR vendors, consulting, managing

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