It is incredibly stressful once you leave the Epic center of gravity. I have spent my ex-epic career wondering if…
Morning Headlines 1/2/14
White Sulphur Springs hospital says company never installed health records system
Mountainview Medical Center (MT) is suing NextGen Healthcare Information Systems for failing to install a certified EHR by a contractually agreed upon install date of June 1, 2013. When the date passed, the NextGen and Mountainview agreed to a new delivery date of October 1 but, according to the lawsuit, the extra time did not resolve the underlying issues and no system was ever installed.
3 hospitals start new year at Stage 7
Hilo Medical Center (HI), Round Rock Hospital (TX), and White Health System (TX) are all named to the HIMSS stage 7 list. Round Rock and White Health’s ambulatory clinics received stage 7 ambulatory designation as well. Both run Epic across their networks, while Hilo is a Meditech 6 site.
Stocks of KC firms large, small did well in 2013
Cerner is profiled by the Kansas City Star newspaper in a year-end review of the city’s top performing businesses. Cerner shares grew 43 percent in 2013.
Just to clarify… The Baylor Scott and White hospitals in Round Rock and Taylor achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7.