This is Part 2 of our 3 Part Project Spotlight featuring Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) in the United Kingdom. The HCI Group played an instrumental role in supporting this large Cerner implementation. Part 2 features CHFT Director of Nursing, Jackie Murphy and CHFT Consultant Pediatrician, Dr. Allistair Morris' perspective one of the most successful EPR Implementations to date in Europe. 

This is Part 1 of our 3 Part Project Spotlight featuring Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) in the United Kingdom. The HCI Group played an instrumental role in supporting this large Cerner implementation. Part 1 features CHFT Chief Executive, Owen Williams' perspective one of the most successful EPR Implementations to date in Europe. 

The HCI Group successfully supported St. Luke's University Health Network, headquartered in Pennsylvania, as it achieved the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 7 Award. With HCI’s help, St. Luke’s successfully achieved Stage 7 status at all 7 of their hospitals by June of 2017, including the first hospital to achieve Stage 7 status in the state of New Jersey.

Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in technology with the promise of increased quality of care and reduction in cost while maintaining regulatory compliance and a competitive position in the market. Healthcare CIOs are under constant pressure to deliver on this promise in a dynamic industry where regulations, cost restrictions, skills/staffing issues, compliance and cyber security challenges compete for resources and funding.

Choosing the right partner is essential for maximizing the benefits of IT managed services for your healthcare organization. You must adequately consider your needs, your partner’s solutions and your partnership together if you are to reduce operating costs, increase efficiencies and improve care as you desire.

An expense is a cost for providing care. An uncovered expense is a liability that grows more significant with each passing day. The longer your accounts receivable age, the greater your burden of carrying them becomes. Submitting claims, and often re-submitting them, drains time and money from your healthcare organization. The post explores how robotic process automation can help improve efficiency and increase revenue within the revenue cycle process.

The 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas next week, March 5-9, 2018. This conference is a unique opportunity to meet over 40,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians and executives from across the globe. Stop by our booth #854!

Transformational healthcare IT projects don’t occur in a vacuum. Empowering caregivers with technology that enables them to provide the best possible outcomes to their patients is costly and complicated. A significant investment in technology alone isn’t enough to bring about the most effective care either. People must be supported and processes must be improved if a healthcare organization is to thrive in an evolving industry. Read about 3 must-have benefits that can be realized with managed IT services for healthcare.

In this blog post, Rod Gamble, HCI's Senior Vice President - Global Cerner Service Line highlights solutions to common staffing problems for EHR Implementations. 

Medical debt is exploding as patients assume more responsibility for healthcare costs. Already accountable for 10 percent of US health expenditures, out-of-pocket spending is expected to reach $542 billion by 2025. But, payments lag billings. Since 2000, U.S. hospitals have provided more than $502 billion in uncompensated care expenses. It’s not just for uninsured patients either. The rate of bad debt for insured patients is increasing by more than 30 percent each year at some hospitals.