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HealthNET Highlight: Joan A.
March 2019Welcome to the second installment in our series of HealthNET Highlights, where we spotlight a HealthNET employee in an effort to provide an inside look at our team members' extensive background and expertise.
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CLIFNOTES: Market Insights at MEDITECH
March 2019One key to a successful consulting firm is building enduring relationships.
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Partners Healthcare Supplier Diversity Program Promotes Business Inclusion
February 2019On Feb. 20, Partners Healthcare welcomed diverse business owners to their campus for a business opportunity fair, as part of an outreach effort for their Supplier Diversity Program.
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The Roses and Thorns of Being a Consultant (and Why I Love It)
February 2019I consider myself blessed that I have a career where I can honestly say I love what I do.
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HealthNET is MEDITECH READY-Certified and ready to help
January 2019After several months of our consultants taking MEDITECH’s e-learning courses, studying, and ultimately passing a total of 56 online quizzes, HealthNET is excited to announce that we are officially a MEDITECH READY-Certified vendor.
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Healthcare Mergers: CLIFNOTES - Planning the IT Fusion
December 2018Realizing the benefits from a newly formed health system is never soon enough. IT provides the infrastructure “rails” that support the clinical and business operational initiatives as well as data-driven strategies such as population health.
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HealthNET Highlight: Sandra Murray
December 2018Welcome to the first in our series of HealthNET Highlights, where we spotlight a HealthNET employee in an effort to provide an inside look at our team members' vast experience and background.
Meet Sandy
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CLIFNOTES: 2018 Fall CHIME CIO Forum
November 2018The Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina provided the perfect backdrop for showcasing the commitment and camaraderie of healthcare IT leaders at the 2018 Fall CIO Forum.
Commitment
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Transitioning EHRs Due to Sunsetting or Aging Products
November 2018The healthcare information system (HCIS) landscape has been evolving for decades, with mergers and acquisitions often interfacing disparate systems together to form a complete EHR. With one system “bolted on” to another, one area (e.g.
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HealthNET Highlight: Meditech Physician and CIO Forum 2018 Recap
October 2018What an amazing week at Meditech for the 2018 Physician and CIO Forum!
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Top 5 Enhancements to Epic Beaker 2018
October 2018Some organizations have viewed Beaker as an immature application that lacks the necessary functionality needed to efficiently carry out departmental workflows, including areas such a Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics. With each upgrade
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The Most Important Work Of All, Teamwork
November 2017Teamwork has been defined “as a cooperative process that allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.”1 It is a relatively safe assumption to make that the majority of business professionals have been a part of a
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What Is A “Portal” Without The Patient?
October 2017Being a healthcare IT industry professional who has come to grow and love all that patient portals have to offer as a result of many years of hands on experience, it has always struck me when in either casual conversation or during a more formal i
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Handwriting Recognition: Why Is It Not the Norm?
October 2017In this day and age, most healthcare providers have accepted using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to fulfill a significant portion of their job functions including ordering, electronic prescribing, clinical decision support, and documentation to
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Does The “Open Office” Layout Close The Door On Optimal Productivity?
September 2017Four walls, a door, window, and a desk of your very own: these four seemingly trivial items that make up the “traditional office” have come to be a luxury that most business professionals can only dream about. Since the 1960s, the corporate
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Has The Patient Triad of Experience, Engagement & Satisfaction Become An Afterthought?
September 2017A precursor to each and every hospital and ambulatory practice countrywide utilizing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an EHR implementation. Historically, implementations have been known to double as a springboard for an opportunity to o
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Navigating Through The Waters of Provider Buy-in During An Implementation
August 2017With the Meaningful Use revolution long underway, and most organizations well into the utilization of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), countless organizations find themselves asking: could we have done a better job obtaining provider buy
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Alert Fatigue: The Pitfall of Clinical Decision Support?
August 2017Prior to the advent of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), orders for medications and IVs were either faxed or copies were sent to the pharmacy department allowing the pharmacist to enter these orders into the pharmacy computer systems for l
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Adapting To EHR Changes In The Workplace
July 2017The shift of healthcare organizations transitioning to electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR) from paper documentation systems has become the norm over the past fifteen years or so. The initiative for computeriz
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How the Evolution of Medication Ordering Reinforces the Importance of the CPOE Triangle
July 2017Even with so much emphasis put on regulations and requirements in today’s mandate-driven society, several healthcare organizations are still simply skating by with the absolute bare minimum compliance when it comes to major areas of focus like com
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Balancing the Scales to Compensate for Inadequate Resources
June 2017At some point in many business professionals’ careers, they have faced the prospect of undergoing a major project with resources that seem grossly inadequate to successfully complete the project on time. This is especially true in the health
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Is Expertise Overrated?
June 2017Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki built his lessons on meditation and mindfulness around the idea that our minds have a tendency to corrupt our attitude towards activities as we become better at them.
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