After reading the article, they want to spend only $100 Million to implement their 20+ hospitals on a new enterprise system in 5 years. The only vendor mentioned in that article is Epic. Uhm…is CHP blind to the Kaiser fiasco? I hope they get a LOT of stimulus money if they are going to implement a broken Epic system that will cost well over $100 Million and take much longer than 5 years to implement. Either way, I am sure at the end of it, Epic will convince them that it’s somehow CHP’s fault for the implementation taking longer and costing twice as much.

Oh come on Mr H…you get it…..means reviewing your revenue cycle and capital budgets while nursing a glass of Campari.

“…the use of HIT has little or no effect on patient safety.”

Just over a year ago, the FDA proposed re-classifying HIT systems from Class 3 medical devices to Class 1. While one might wonder why they had not been enforcing the prior Class 3 designation, this action clearly puts HIT vendors on notice that patient safety needs to be a product design factor. At least it sets a floor in saying that HIT should not be a factor that decreases patient safety.

A savvy vendor that has prior experience with FDA medical device regulation might see this as an opportunity. Other vendors, such as the big boys pushing their PHR products, might see it as a threat. It will be “stimulating” to watch the food-fight.