ICYMI: 10 Clinician-Focused Blogs to Help You Get the Most Out of Healthcare IT

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, this is a reading list packed with practical tips and forward-thinking perspective.

Epic advice 

Is your organization using the Epic Rover mobile app yet? Have you started planning the transition from Epic Hyperspace to Epic Hyperdrive? We’ve helped healthcare organizations through such changes and share our know-how in these articles: 

• Epic Rover® App: Practical Ways to Help Clinicians On-The-Go. Walk through examples and workflows for using the Rover app that have both patient safety and care team efficiency in mind.  
• Epic Hyperdrive: How You Can Prepare for the Transition. Remember you will need to transition to Epic Hyperdrive prior to upgrading to version May 2023. Check out our advice for working with third-party application vendors during the transition to Hyperdrive.    

Healthcare leaders responded 

What challenges are other healthcare IT and operational leaders facing? How do they plan to mitigate them? See how CIOs and CFOs responded in these survey results.  

• HFMA Poll: CFO and CIO Synergy is Crucial to Successful Initiatives. 42% of CFOs say they need CIOs to provide more information about how to prioritize major initiatives, align those initiatives to corporate goals and assess the risk of IT spend. Read on for more insights from the HFMA survey that focused on IT decisions and the collaboration between hospital Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs).
• 2022 CHIME CIO Survey Results Are In. 53% of CIOs said limited IT bandwidth and the ability to source specialized expertise was their number one challenge in 2022. See their responses to other questions in the online survey conducted with healthcare executives, all College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members.   

MEDITECH Expanse  

Map your journey to MEDITECH Expanse while remaining focused on patient safety and satisfaction. Get practical advice on how to configure your EHR in order to help your clinicians work efficiently. 

• MEDITECH Dictionary Cleanup for Clinicians (and IT). Up-to-date dictionaries help clinicians document more efficiently and accurately. These tips from a MEDITECH Pharmacy expert can help you establish a dictionary clean-up process.
  
• MEDITECH Expanse: Customizable Features that Improve Clinician Satisfaction. Branching rules, customizable charts, behavioral health alerts, status boards, order trackers and more. Explore a few of the ways you can help increase user satisfaction and drive workflow efficiency with these customizable features in MEDITECH Expanse.  
• MEDITECH Expanse: Bringing Ambulatory and Acute Under One EHR. What benefits and challenges are ahead with having an integrated EHR for acute care and ambulatory practices? Find recommendations from those who have successfully implemented a single EHR with MEDITECH Expanse. 
• MEDITECH Expanse: Why Clinicians Will Love It. Does MEDITECH Expanse live up to the hype of being an EHR that clinicians will find easy to use? This article skims the surface when it comes to the enhancements and integrations that make the future seem bright with the MEDITECH Expanse platform.    

Managed Services and other healthcare IT trends 

Stay abreast of trends in healthcare IT services with articles from Peyman Zand, Vice President of Advisory Services at CereCore. 

• IT Managed Services in Healthcare: CereCore® CIO Cohort Perspectives. Members of the CereCore CIO Cohort shared their insights and experiences with managed services. Read what they had to say about this emerging trend.
• Healthcare Industry Trends 2022. Were these trends on your radar as a healthcare IT executive? Read more about pressures to mature IT operations and the increased focus on integration, automation, and security. 
• 2023 Healthcare Technology Industry Trends: Top Challenges for CIOs. And here’s a bonus blog (in case you were counting). If 2022 is in your rearview mirror, what’s the outlook for 2023? Are cloud migration plans, predictive analytics and flexible staffing models on your radar? Take a closer look at why these three areas are critical for establishing a solid foundation for future innovation. 

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