Comments on: News 9/2/09

By: Dr. Spock

Dr. Spock — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:00:20 +0000

p-anon assumptions aside there are still many questions left un answered concerning the methodology utilized by Klas…how much of the raw survey data was shared in the report?? What type of stratification did the respondents fall into…what was the exact make up of the survey response options provided?

The amount of inacurracies, negative bent of the opinion and conclusions suggest less than an impartial position..hopefully those who did fork out coin for the report found it of value.

By: amused

amused — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:39:21 +0000

Re: Meditech KLAS report
A major part of the report had to do with customer comments that they will indeed seek out the competition’s offerings and price shop before jumping. And this was presented in as a threat and a negative customer perception of Meditech’s 6.0 product. Guess I’m just old school, but I thought this was known as due diligence.

By: p_anon

p_anon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:44:44 +0000

Dr. Spock, assuming it was a random sample of customers and there was no selection bias, 100 respondents out of ~2000 is plenty. This is statistics 101 stuff.

Your only argument is that either their questions are misleading or the manner in which they selected hospitals, or in which hospitals self-selected, led to an unrepresentative sample.

But the sample size is PLENTY.

By: Dr. Spock

Dr. Spock — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:18:17 +0000

Re Haffty comments concerning the “news story”, Klas and MEDITECH. If you spend the several thousands of dollars to purchase/read the Klas report their “analysis” is based on interviews/surveys with approximately 100 respondents. MEDITECH has 2000+ customers. With only a 100 respondent sample size Klas extrapolated 25% of MEDITECH customers were going to pursue a competitive analysis. Of the 100 respondents did 25 say they were going to look at other vendor options? To suggest 1 in 4 of their customers will assess alternative systems based on that survey sample is outlandish and an effort to manipulate perceptions in the marketplace. I’m sure Klas would be more than happy to share with Mr. HISTalk their sales figures from that report. Accurate. Honest. Impartial??? They are driving a revenue stream in a down economy by doing an opinion piece disguised as real investigative analysis on the vendor with the largest customer base in the industry and most potential buyers for their report.

By: Rainy Day

Rainy Day — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:47:28 +0000

Reefdiver:

Not sure your experience with EMR/EHR, regulatory work, implementation or design work. But after 28 years in the biz I can figure out pretty easily how to report on hypertension statistics just using simple information. BTW hypertension is one of the reportable elements in meaningful use.