A client recently asked us: "When is the best time to do an EHR go-live?"

How do you know if your organization is ready to achieve the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 7 Award?

From collecting data on your organization and comparing it to EMRAM Stage 7 criteria, to alignment and site readiness preparation, attaining Stage 7 status can be quite the undertaking. With so many factors to consider, less than 5% of hospitals had achieved Stage 7 status by the end of 2016.

Ahead of our upcoming webinar, The Journey Toward Digital Transformation, HCI recently sat down with digital transformation executive, visionary leader and CIO of Children’s Mercy Hospital, David Chou. The conversation hit on several topics and trends surrounding digital transformation in healthcare. The following is a portion of the conversation where Chou talks about establishing the groundwork that leads to digital transformation, his current initiatives as a hospital CIO and where he sees healthcare IT in 2020. 

HCI recently sat down with digital transformation executive and visionary leader, David Chou, to chat about several topics and trends surrounding digital transformation in healthcare.

The tech world has seen some amazing success stories, like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

Though all three are known for helming companies that made some great business decisions at the right time and made a lot of people a lot of money, some of their biggest achievements are how they structured their companies to keep on thriving, with or without their presence.

As many customers, friends, and colleagues in over 150 countries experienced last Friday, the threat of ransomware is real. Aside from the progressively growing ransom costs and associated operating losses, the WannaCry ransomware demonstrated both how critical and vulnerable our data is. Nowhere is this more important than in the clinical care environment.

The data that is most critical for healthcare organizations to provide, track and meaningfully contribute to the wellness of their patients is under constant threat.

From distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks to spear phishing, the motives behind cyber attacks vary as much as the means. Different adversaries can simultaneously attack you on various fronts.

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then effective cyber security measures are worth a ton for healthcare organizations because your data could be compromised at any time from any point.

When the time comes to embark on the journey of implementing a new EHR system, there are a number of factors to consider in the overall budget and timetable.

While going through your EHR Integration checklist, testing is often one area that is shortened to make up for lost time or cost savings, but what may be an initial time saving act, can end up being quite a costly mistake down the road.

In this post we take a look at 10 key questions to ensure your testing sets you up for a successful go-live.

No one knows how a physician works as well as another physician.

Peer-to-peer training improves physician engagement during an EHR implementation because clinical users get knowledge and support that is relevant to how they care for patients.

In working with colleagues, physicians can increase efficiency and improve documentation by applying shortcuts and best practices that they might not have learned otherwise.

Conversely, physicians may adopt new practices more slowly, thus impairing their productivity, if you fail to engage them early and to provide them with peer-to-peer training. Concerns that could have—and should have—been handled early on become impediments at go-live instead.