Oklahoma Heart Hospital and CereCore collaborated to ready 128 interfaces during their transition from Cerner Millennium to Epic. The Client Oklahoma Heart Hospital (OHH) is a physician-owned...
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Oklahoma Heart Hospital and CereCore collaborated to ready 128 interfaces during their transition from Cerner Millennium to Epic.
Dr. Aaron Parker Banks, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at UK St. Claire Healthcare, treats patients multiple days a week in the Kentucky community where he has spent most of his life. From...
A highly customized EHR in need of costly updates challenged the new CIO at Oklahoma Heart Hospital to evaluate the technology stack he inherited and chart a new course at this award-winning...
Nayan Patel, chief information officer at Upson Regional Medical Center, sat down with Phil Sobol, chief commercial officer and host of The CereCore Podcast, and shared how he has fine-tuned an...
“Early detection of disease is a way of both curing patients and delivering better healthcare, but also scaling our physicians,” said Ajai Sehgal, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Mayo Clinic, in...
CereCore recently announced two strategic changes to its leadership team. Joel St. Francis has been named the company’s chief operating officer (COO), and Phil Sobol has been promoted to chief...
In a recent interview on The CereCore Podcast, Marty Paslick, former Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of HCA Healthcare, shared experiences from his nearly four decades in...
A Growth-Focused Managed Services IT Partnership
CereCore has become the first approved partner to deliver Revenue Cycle Management Technology Adoption Model (RCMTAM) consulting and advisory services to healthcare providers. RCMTAM was introduced...
CereCore announces specialized revenue cycle advisory services for healthcare organizations and new Principal, Kim Waters. This focused advisory service is in response to healthcare clients' growing...
CereCore announces hiring Zach Grieshop as AVP of Client Technical Services. In this role, Grieshop is responsible for the development, execution, and support of all technical services within the...
If you have a strategic plan for your healthcare organization, do you also have healthcare operations data that can help you make decisions? How does a healthcare chief financial officer (CFO) view a...
The latest issue of CereCore’s magazine, Partnership Perspectives, includes articles about strategic levers that improve day-to-day operations and satisfaction like managed IT services, clinical...
Cyber criminals only have to be right once to wreak havoc. In healthcare, we have to be right 100% of the time to manage the risk of cyberattack. In a recent interview on the CereCore Podcast, Phil...
CIOs continue to grapple with insufficient resources for complicated IT initiatives and they're adding more top challenges to the list. For the third year running, insufficient resources have been...
Participating in this MEDITECH certification program seeks to enhance the value of EHR platforms for healthcare organizations
CereCore provides comprehensive MEDITECH services that address all stages...
Optimizing revenue cycle operations, streamlining workflows and maximizing technology investments are top of mind strategies for healthcare leaders as they look for ways to bolster margins and drive...
IT service desks are undergoing a profound transformation that is propelled by a fundamental change in perspective. Traditionally confined to resolving technical issues, IT service...
Healthcare executives, all CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) members, shared feedback in an online survey* about IT priorities and pressures facing their health system.
Large implementations can be overwhelming, and often organizations run out of steam. Modern EHR platforms are like living, breathing entities that require care and feeding to keep an organization...
Ismelda Garza, CIO for Cuero Regional Hospital, is a rural health IT leader with sage advice for hospitals and health systems preparing for or in the middle of an EHR replacement. In this interview...
Committed to supporting an Epic EHR that satisfies patients and providers, but not sure where to start? It’s a common situation complicated by variables ranging from the service offerings of your...
The Power of Managed Services for Health Systems
Managed IT services include one or more components of the overall IT operation. This could include service desk, application support,...
CereCore colleagues gather annually for Connection, an event focused on building strategic plans, encouraging teamwork through community services, and celebrating achievements. Teams and colleagues...
“Healthcare IT is always evolving,” said Shahzad Fakhar, HCA Healthcare, Vice President Field Operations – Information Technology Group. “The desire of innovation comes internally to make things...
Find articles and podcasts highlighting recommendations from healthcare IT leaders and industry experts on EHR strategy, implementation, optimization, clinical IT service desk and technical debt.
Often healthcare IT leaders and teams find a chasm in expectations and understanding when it comes to implementing and optimizing technology for the physician community. In an interview on The...
Meet Lynn Falcone, a rural healthcare CEO, with over 30 years of experience in healthcare operations, most of which was spent working in large urban settings. Today, she is the CEO of Cuero Regional...
The need to optimize is part of the EMR implementation process explains Cory Lane, director of operations at OakLeaf Surgical Hospital during a podcast interview with Phil Sobol, vice president of...
CereCore recently welcomed James Lobban, regional vice president of business development, to the team.
“Jim brings decades of experience providing and supporting healthcare technology solutions for...
Matt Connor is the chief information officer (CIO) for Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, and they were the first NHS organisation in the UK to go-live on MEDITECH Expanse. Matt joined our...
CIOs report alternative staffing models such as contracting with a partner for partial IT outsourcing and hiring contractors for a specific, short-term project are among the best ideas for addressing...
OakLeaf Surgery Hospital Moves to MEDITECH Expanse
The Client
Surgery Partners is a leading operator of surgical hospitals and ancillary services with more than 180 locations nationwide. They have...
Amid the dynamic and ever-changing tech landscape, cloud migration has become a pivotal pursuit for organizations aiming to bolster their agility, efficiency, and scalability. Recently, a CIO Cohort...
Anne Hargrave-Thomas, CEO of OakLeaf Surgical Hospital and vice president of operations at Surgery Partners, sees technology as a must-have for healthcare operations. A former nurse turned healthcare...
ICYMI, we’re recapping some of the best advice shared on The CereCore Podcast by industry leading HIT executives and a physician, too.
Innovation is a top priority for CIOs. Given the importance of trust and adoption to the success of any innovative effort, CIOs must also prioritize sound operations and relationships built on trust....
The latest issue of CereCore’s magazine, Partnership Perspectives, includes articles that share points of view from physicians, nurses and CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management...
CereCore's inaugural issue of Partnership Perspectives magazine takes a look at relationships within a health system and approaches health IT leaders can use to collaborate more effectively with the...
Crossroads — these are familiar places for healthcare IT leaders today. Al Smith, SVP and CIO of Lifepoint Health, shares advice from his extensive career leading through decades of change in...
Moving from MEDITECH to Epic
One Hospital System’s Formula for Navigating the Unknown
The ClientPrivate, nonprofit hospital system being acquired by another hospital system.
The FacilityThe...
CIO survey results imply that the presence of technical debt is pervasive in HIT, and where there's technical debt, there are cybersecurity considerations. What can a Healthcare IT...
Wondering what priorities and pressures other CIOs are facing? You may not be alone in trying to balance all of the must-dos. Take a look at the results from an online survey* of healthcare...
Everything we do in healthcare IT has a direct correlation to patient care, especially large IT investments like EMR implementations and day-to-day operations such as the IT help desk. On The...
CereCore recently named Peyman Zand as the company’s chief strategy officer (CSO). As CSO, he will evolve strategic plans and business goals for continued domestic and international growth of...
A Support Staffing Budgeting Story
Results are in from an online survey* of healthcare executives, all CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) members, sponsored by CereCore in March 2023 on the topic of IT...
A MEDITECH Staffing Story
Facility and Technology Renovation: Implementing at a Like New HospitalA Multi-Disciplinary MEDITECH Transformation
The Client
Texas’ second largest private employer, a...
Step into the shoes of L. Austin Fredrickson, MD, an internal medicine physician at Salem Regional Medical Center whose outpatient practice recently navigated an EMR transition to MEDITECH Expanse.
An Epic Implementation Story: Fast Tracking Epic Integration for a New Pediatric Facility
One of the first steps Memorial Healthcare in Owosso, MI took when they were deciding to unify their EHR with MEDITECH Expanse was to closely examine integrations, workflows, and day-to-day...
The constant demand for innovation and growth plus mounting economic pressures push today’s CIO to stay focused on ways to build a high performing IT team and strong relationships with stakeholders...
Benefits of Hosting
Outsourcing any aspect of an operational-critical application can be daunting, but many organizations have found that the benefits outweigh the risks. So why is...
Here’s a look back at our most popular blogs from the year. From EHR implementation and optimization topics to recent survey findings from healthcare CIOs and CFOs on the industry’s top challenges,...
CereCore teamed up with HFMA to sponsor a survey uncovering collaboration disparities between the finance and IT department within healthcare organizations. The survey focused on IT decisions and the...
BENEFITS
Improve patient experience
The Expanse Patient Portal works concurrently with the Expanse Ambulatory platform and allows patients access to review and manage their...
In healthcare, IT support is a critical job that doesn’t sleep or take off for the holiday. Is your organization happy with the level of IT support they receive? How’s the reputation of your IT...
Members of the CereCore CIO Cohort shared their advice on successfully applying managed services within their organizations.
What are the most critical IT initiatives for CIOs and health systems in 2022? What strategies are CIOs considering to solve their biggest challenges? See how CIOs responded to these and other...
Making sure the right clinical staff receive test results on time, documenting medication information, taking advantage of alerts and alarms – here are just a few examples of communications...
During a virtual company-wide celebration, CEO and President Curtis Watkins honored CereCore employees who have made a significant difference in the way we serve clients with excellence and embody...
CereCore continues its long-standing history as a MEDITECH READY-Certified implementation and 5-star hosting partner, a designation the company has held since January 2015 during the early days of...
Looking to streamline healthcare IT operations or costs? Need tried and true tactics to save time for clinicians and IT teams? As you develop strategic plans to support patient engagement, improve...
Five Compelling Reasons Your Organization Needs One EHR
CereCore®has been ranked No. 9 among healthcare suppliers in Modern Healthcare’s 2021 Best Places to Work award program. The complete list of this year’s winner rankings is available at...
CereCore is proud to be recognized by Securance Consulting as a Best Practice MEDITECH Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider for more than five years running.
MEDITECH Expanse is the current and most recent version of the MEDITECH electronic health record(EHR) or health information system (HIS). By far the most advanced,comprehensive suite of integrated...
CereCore® recently welcomed Michael Gagnon who joined the team as the company’s first Enterprise Fellow. As Enterprise Fellow, Michael will not only provide technical direction and guidance in the...
What’s changed for healthcare technology leaders recently? What pain points are keeping CIOs up at night? What hinders day-to-day operations the most?
National Nurse’s Week is the perfect time to recognize the nurses working in our communities and among us, and we thank nurses across our nation for using your gifts and talents to care for others in...
Microsoft’s PowerBI is quickly becoming a solution of choice for healthcare organizations to gain better insights into their data and a cost-effective alternative to 3rd party reporting platforms....
At CereCore, the highest value is placed on supporting clients and our communities. The CereCore Rock Solid Award recognizes team members who have exemplified these values during the past year. Award...
As the classic song goes, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” Although it is fair to recognize that after this year’s challenges, it may not feel that way. Almost everyone in the health IT...
Innovative Partnership Paves The Way For A Singular, Modern MEDITECH Platform
Prescription for Service Desk Efficiency
Independent Health System Fuels Growth and Quality with MEDITECH Expanse
Memorial Healthcare moves from their aging Magic EHR and Allscripts Ambulatory systems to leverage a unified Expanse solution...
Swift MEDITECH Conversion Meets Meaningful Use Requirements, Adds New Functionality
EHR is the core of every healthcare organization today. Many aren't aware of all the changes that were required to the EHR to enable the COVID-19 response. Many EHR consulting teams, vendors, and...
Are you capturing the correct metrics?
Defining the correct metrics is critical. The service desk sees all of the issues on the front line— all incidents that are submitted to your...
Addressing Compliance And Quality Measures As A Smaller Health System
The Client
What is the new reality for health system CIOs post-COVID? In February of 2020, CereCore surveyed CIOs through CHIME to identify top IT priorities and barriers to progress. With social distancing...
One month before social-distancing measures were implemented in the United States, an online survey of healthcare executives, all CHIME members was conducted by CereCore. As these technology leaders...
Hospital IT leaders have always carefully balanced support costs along with transforming the delivery of care with new solutions. And as we begin defining the effort for recovery from the COVID-19...
If you have been dinged by The Joint Commission for not providing easy individualization of Care Plans, your Care Plan workflow is cumbersome and not clearly linked to other documentation, or maybe...
MIS Provider build and maintenance can be an intimidating task without the knowledge of certain access settings and controls with MEDITECH Expanse. Because we’ve done this for multiple clients, we...
Continuing our conversation on what to consider when upgrading your MEDITECH 6.1x platform to Expanse, there are multiple enhancements across the product suite that you can leverage to make the most...
Recently, MEDITECH has been encouraging organizations on the 6.1x platform to consider upgrading to the Expanse platform. Reason being is there are multiple enhancements across the product suite that...
Many Epic clients, especially those who have been live for some time, suffer from extreme levels of order clutter. Their bloated order sets are filled with the outcomes of any number of requests over...
Moving patients through their hospital stay safely and efficiently is paramount to their care, satisfaction, and cost containment. Many factors contribute to a hospital’s ability to manage their...
Supply chain plays an integral role in hospital operations. Since its impact spans the organization, it is important to take the time to identify current challenges and potential changes. We have...
When considering staff augmentation for your organization, there are various things to take into account. You need cost-effective yet skilled resources who have a very strong system build and...
There are two important factors in achieving your organization’s revenue goals. First, increase the number of referrals that stay in-house. Second, provide Referral Coordinators with the tools and...
Timely, consistent, and accurate charge reconciliation is an important process within a healthcare organization’s revenue cycle function. Charge reconciliation involves multiple steps across various...
BestPractice Advisories (BPAs) can be extremely effective at alerting clinicians of potential negative consequences when configured correctly. BPAs should display a clear message to the appropriate...
A Foundation System Refuel project can be a long, complex process that often puts additional pressure on an already strained support team. It’s especially arduous if it's been a while since your Epic...
Epic has educated customers over the past year on the positive changes occurring with their move to quarterly from large upgrades after the February release of version 2018 (v2018). Epic will begin...
MEDITECH is offering a variety of tools in their 6.1 platform that enable hospital administration to be more efficient with their time and information. Among those tools is the Scheduling module...
A significant amount of work and investment on behalf of providers has gone into attesting to the various stages of meaningful use over the past few years. The hope is to achieve better clinical...
