An EMR implementation is an opportunity for so much more than upgrading technology. Rural healthcare leaders, CEO Lynn Falcone and CIO Ismelda Garza, recap the tangible and intangible results from...
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An EMR implementation is an opportunity for so much more than upgrading technology. Rural healthcare leaders, CEO Lynn Falcone and CIO Ismelda Garza, recap the tangible and intangible results from...
Rationalize your applications, they say. It will lead to cost savings, streamline your portfolio, and release resources for innovation and technological advancement, they say. So why do we groan at...
Every missed charge is a missed opportunity, and hospital sustainability depends on operational efficiency and revenue integrity. One acute care hospital recently partnered with CereCore because they...
This year’s MUSE Inspire Conference at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, delivered exactly what healthcare IT leaders’ value most: a high-energy environment where MEDITECH professionals...
“Nobody went to medical school to work behind a computer or type notes or pick a diagnosis. I'm on a very challenging mission to turn technology into a tool—to rebrand it as a tool that is useful...
From paper charts to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the advent of CPOE, we have witnessed the steady acceleration of healthcare technology. Today, pharmacy is entering a transformative era with...
In my years of working with MEDITECH implementations, I've seen firsthand how manual ED billing can create inefficiencies, inconsistencies, and lost revenue opportunities. Learning how automation can...
This podcast was originally published on Healthcare NOW Radio “The Tate Chronicles: Live at HIMSS25 with Chris Wickersham and Mike Gordon”
At healthcare organizations on Epic, Refuel projects can call for more capacity than your resident Epic experts have, making these projects opportunities for staff augmentation. As with any...
What does it look like when application managed services providers with healthcare operations expertise are responsible for the maintenance, support and enhancement of your Oracle Health EHR? Many...
Planning and prioritizing healthcare technology investments is one of the most important aspects of IT governance explains Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at CereCore during a podcast interview...
Mary Rutan Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization providing comprehensive and integrated inpatient, outpatient and community services to a five-county region in rural...
Oracle Health (Cerner) level 1 support, ServiceNow and Epic implementation expertise, and MyChart support gives independent hospital capacity for their internal IT team and...
Judy Krupala, CNO at Cuero Regional Hospital, shares nurses' feedback and key steps in their recent transition to MEDITECH Expanse in an interview on The CereCore Podcast.Cuero Regional Hospital and...
Healthcare stands at a crossroads of transformation with technologists and clinicians charting better and new paths for key technologies like EHRs and AI. Darrell Bodnar, CIO of North Country...
Kevin Olson became the Chief Information Officer at Jupiter Medical Center in 2020 and was faced with finding solutions for a complex, fragmented healthcare technology landscape. In his conversation...
Whether your healthcare organization is tackling a digital transformation agenda, considering an EHR upgrade or rip and replace, or navigating merger and acquisition activities, decisions around IT...
Healthcare organizations around the world are either implementing, upgrading or optimizing their EHRs. HCA Healthcare is implementing MEDITECH Expanse and Krischan Krayer, VP of Expanse...
Does your EHR technology roadmap include an upgrade from MEDITECH Expanse 2.1 to 2.2? Check out the top 5 functionality enhancements that have our clients buzzing with excitement. Moving from...
In many instances, the transition to Epic has CIOs considering partners for implementation responsibilities, legacy EHR management, or both. And for good reason. Consider these case studies knowing...
Oklahoma Heart Hospital and CereCore collaborated to ready 128 interfaces during their transition from Cerner Millennium to Epic.
Recently I realized I’ve become bilingual. I’ve had the amazing opportunity over the last two years to work in England and learn the nuances between American English and British English, American...
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...
In Healthcare IT, it is common to have an ebb and flow of people from your organization. Some sites are seeing more ebb than flow lately, however. Maybe these situations sound familiar:
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...
Nurses have been the largest users of electronic health records for years and they are no strangers to system upgrades. When a nurse hears about a new upgrade coming many questions come up like: What...
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...
Congratulations – if you’re considering EHR optimization, that likely means you have a recent go-live behind you and now you’re looking forward to what’s next. Modern EHRs are significant investments...
MEDITECH’s Expanse Ambulatory platform provides an opportunity for healthcare organizations to unite their ambulatory practices and the acute care system within a single electronic health record....
“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...
Every hospital EHR implementation has different requirements and considerations due to the uniqueness of the hospital services. Through implementing MEDITECH Expanse in over 40 hospitals, I have...
Healthcare organizations can achieve remarkable results with their Epic EMR by embarking on a journey of optimization. This ongoing process empowers you to maximize the value of your investment and...
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In the latest episode of our podcast, we talk with Lynn Falcone, the CEO of Cuero Health in Texas. She talks about moving to a new...
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...
Helping healthcare providers find ways to use the EHR in the most effective, efficient manner not only helps providers and clinical teams feel less frustrated by the technology, but patients...
In today’s competitive market, it is important to get credit for the work that is being completed within the healthcare continuum. The work effort within a healthcare organization or provider...
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...
Article originally published on Digital Health Insights.
Despite the fact that nearly every hospital in the United States has an electronic health record (EHR) in place, the market for these systems...
In life and in the workplace, change is something we have learned to expect. Thousands of books and blogs have been written about ways to set expectations and minimize stress to drive adoption of...
Looking for a way to improve patient monitoring and outcomes with MEDITECH?
You came to the right place! Surveillance watchlists are an amazing, completely customizable tool that displays a list of...
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...
How you implement, upgrade, and maintain Epic at your facilities and clinics impacts workflows, culture, and experiences. Planning the impact and managing the necessary changes to realize the full...
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, efficiency is paramount. From patient care to administrative tasks, every aspect of the healthcare system benefits from streamlined processes. One critical area...
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...
Recent years have seen concerning labor shortages, and for healthcare, those challenges continue to this day. 2022 was when more than 50 million workers quit their jobs, breaking the record from the...
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...
The question of when to optimize or modernize Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is crucial for healthcare IT (HIT) leaders at provider organizations. During a recent HIMSS podcast episode, led...
Technology is a must have for patient and provider experiences, but how do you ensure a return on your healthcare organization’s investment? And how do you prove the return was realized?
As part of...
Malicious actors are ramping up exploitation efforts with technology that has the potential to be more destructive than ever, introducing new risks and intensifying existing ones as they learn from...
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...
During a recent interview, Varun Gadhok, Chief Information Officer of Surgery Partners, spoke with Sarah Moors from Digital Health Insights. Gadhok provided practical insights into Surgery Partners'...
Years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as consulting informatics pharmacist during multi-facility MEDITECH implementations, and ever since then I have been helping clinical teams navigate EHR...
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.
Many of the anticipated trends for healthcare technology in 2023 came to fruition leading to new opportunities, and solutions to consider in 2024. Last year saw deployment of the cloud for optimized...
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...
CHIME23 Fall Forum featured inspiring stories from keynotes and encouraged conversation around top healthcare IT challenges. CereCore’s leaders were cited in this article with several key takeaways:
Analytics touch every application within your system, working in parallel with your workflows. A strong analytics program integrates reporting content directly into users’ day-to-day activities,...
Concerned about handing over your service desk to a third party? Rightfully so. Your service desk defines experiences with your healthcare organization and is critical to your user satisfaction...
Ian Lindsey, manager, service delivery at CereCore, talks about customer experience on the Touch Point podcast with Chris Boyer. Ian explains CereCore’s unique approach to training service desk...
Traditionally, a Hospital Information System (HIS) is geared toward creating a patient medical record, placing orders for patient care, and ultimately, capturing revenue to support coding and...
This Week in Pharmacy (#TWIRx) podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network featured Dr. Charles Bell and Andrea Corner, PharmD in a conversation about the collaboration needed among pharmacists and...
Doreen DeGroff, CereCore senior director, MEDITECH consulting practice, CPHIMS, shares her perspective on the healthcare literacy gap in the digital age and how it is a hidden problem among US...
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...
Healthcare delivery is changing with the evolution of technology.
It’s no secret that healthcare has evolved exponentially over the last few decades. I entered the healthcare world over 40 years...
Have you ever wondered what makes some Epic implementations run so smoothly while others feel like an endless string of challenges? One explanation lies in the understanding that managing an Epic...
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...
Clinical service desks that employ understanding of clinical workflows and issue urgency are the way of the future for healthcare IT. Sound service desk practices and technological know-how are the...
Cultural differences and legal issues can significantly impact successful overseas work experience, according to global commerce experts. This article explains the types of American workers overseas...
For IT service desks in healthcare, adding new value to their organizations involves much more than a tool decision. It's time for today’s healthcare IT (HIT) service desks to offer what traditional...
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...
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...
Ismelda Garza, CIO, Cuero Regional Health System in Cuero, Texasand senior consultant for CereCore shared her leadership perspective with Becker’s Hospital Review editors when asked this question:...
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...
LONDON, Aug. 1, 2023 -- CereCore International today announced the company is a certified hardware integrator for MEDITECH in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is providing end-to-end healthcare IT...
Setting a strategy to realize thefull potential of your IT team and Epic platform takes time, attention, and experience. Our CereCore team has worked with clients onsolution and acquisition...
The MEDITECH Rules Engine is one of the most powerful, underutilized, and misunderstood tools in your EMR. You can use rules to pull forward discrete data elements, reduce documentation redundancy,...
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....
You’ve decided to host one or more of your strategic applications remotely or in the cloud. If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve done a lot of due diligence ensuring the application will perform in a...
Samantha McInnis is a manager and consultant for MEDITECH professional services at CereCore where she advises and collaborates with care locations on their EHR projects which includes anything from a...
Technical debt is on the minds of healthcare CIOs. In March 2023, CereCore sponsored an online survey of healthcare IT executives, all CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives)...
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...
For the past 40 years, MEDITECH Magic has been a stable, cost-effective electronic health record solution for healthcare organizations. But, Magic is an aging technology that eventually will...
Jennifer Fitisemanu (RN), consulting architect for Epic Services at CereCore, is a former nurse who reflects on how much data is available to nurses at the point of care because of technology’s...
American Hospital Association reports showed hospitals and health systems will continue to operate under resource and economic pressures in 2023.
Healthcare NOW Radio recorded educational response...
Not all Epic clinical service desks are created the same. At CereCore, our Epic help desk is focused on providing well-informed Level 1 agents backed by experts with decades of clinical expertise....
As an IT hiring manager, finding the right resource with the right skills, knowledge and culture fit can be a herculean task. In the fast-changing healthcare IT space, finding individuals who have...
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.
Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer, shares perspective on healthcare IT in the U.S. and the U.K. in this video interview at the conference. Regardless of location, health systems today are focused...
CereCore is pleased to participate as a sponsor of Digital Health in the UK. Jon Hoeksma, editor and CEO of Digital Health, interviewed Curtis Watkins, President and CEO of CereCore, to learn more...
Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer, shares his perspective on how vital the modern CIO has become to helping healthcare organizations navigate emerging technologies to provide better care and...
The term technical debt, while not new, has recently been clarified and defined by McKinsey as the “off-balance-sheet accumulation of all the technology work a company needs to do in the future.”...
Health literacy has been a pain point in healthcare since the beginning of the 21st century. And the issue has intensified for physician practices, hospitals, and patients due to the COVID-19...
Hospital Outpatient Departments (HODs) are often a pain point in an otherwise excellent EHR go-live. They all seem to have unique workflows. Each department may have a different way that they like to...
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...
Over the holidays, a cybersecurity breach at a New Jersey hospital forced the healthcare facility to turn away emergency department visitors and suspend outpatient services. This type of debilitating...
CEO Curtis Watkins and Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer, provided some thoughts about areas of opportunity for healthcare IT leaders and healthcare systems to consider going into 2023. Watkins...
After wrapping up a recent MEDITECH Expanse project in which our team used automation tools and processes, we did some analysis on the overall cost savings —we saved the healthcare organization over...
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,...
The healthcare industry began to breathe again in early 2022. As the environment became more stable, IT investments increased and organizations further integrated telemedicine into the care delivery...
EHR implementations are a huge investment. And for many healthcare IT teams, this type of project may be a once in a career type of experience. I have spent more than 30 years of my career helping...
Listen as Peyman Zand, Chief Strategy Officer at CereCore, talks with HFMA editor Erika Grotto about how the role of the CFO is evolving and how interactions between C-suite leaders have changed over...
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...
Doreen DeGroff is passionate about the topic of health literacy and shares her expertise and perspective in this HIT Consultant article. She provides background and research on the overarching issue...
When was the last time your facility reviewed the MEDITECH procedure build? Has it been since the original implementation or build? Is your operational philosophy, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,"...
An interesting thing happened as the pandemic began to fade. The optimism of going back to the normal routine, which excited most leaders, quickly faded in several ways.
Assuring that the correct provider charges are billed can be extremely challenging - despite last year’s updates to the Evaluation and Management coding criteria. Recent studies indicate that the...
MEDITECH Expanse gives sites the ability to take advantage of the new updated version of the Oncology application. This essentially new version further integrates the application with MEDITECH’s...
According to The National Assessment of Adult Health Literacy report, only 12% of Americans have proficient health literacy skills. Adults who lack such skills may struggle to understand instructions...
In this interview with Healthcare IT News, Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, discussed what’s changed over the past few years when it comes to healthcare technology like telemedicine and...
I got a new phone a week ago, and I feel pretty special because it’s one of the “new flip phones”. Of course, that also makes me laugh because I owned one of the original flip phones way back when....
The number of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare has been increasing. M&A activities almost always involve changes in technology, EMRs, and/or workflows. Are there implications to clinical...
Kerry Barker, a former nurse and manager of Epic Services at CereCore, shares her perspective on why nursing should always be included in planning for cybersecurity approaches. She explains that...
MEDITECH Expanse is packed with functionality to help your hospital improve its efficiency. You have likely heard that Expanse has new, improved features. Let’s explore several Expanse features that...
Guardian of patient data. Steward of IT budgets. Advocate for care teams. Liaison between technology and healthcare operations. You wear all of these hats and more as a healthcare IT leader. Juggling...
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...
The reasons for implementing changes to your EHR can vary from the need for new workflows, improving existing workflows and processes, regulatory requirements, or introducing new technology. So how...
Data breaches, stolen identities, and fraudulent charges are a fact of life in our modern age. However, for healthcare organizations, protecting patient data is only the beginning. Additional...
Most organizations are investigating ways to help their clinicians spend more time at the bedside yet still document and gather needed information. However, workstations are not always conveniently...
“Spring Cleaning”— some of us love it, some of us hate it, but we all know that periodically taking the time to clean will benefit you and those around you in the future. The same applies to your...
2020 and 2021 events pushed the healthcare industry into uncharted territories of digital transformation at an unexpected and often uncomfortably rapid pace for many providers. And this was the...
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...
MEDITECH Expanse is the most recent version of the MEDITECH electronic health record system. The path to MEDITECH Expanse is a significant transition. So where should you begin? Let’s dive into...
Achieving greater efficiency in day-to-day operations has a ripple effect across a health system — from reducing the cost of healthcare delivery to improving clinician experience as well as resulting...
From the outside, Sarah seems like an ordinary mother of two, but that is far from true. Through her seemingly ordinary life, Sarah achieves extraordinary things. She earned her master’s degree in...
Historically, a patient’s electronic medical record was a way for the healthcare team to keep an account of the patient’s care. Over time, the record has become integral to sharing information with...
In early 2021, results from an online survey* of healthcare leaders who are College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members indicated that areas of greatest opportunity for...
Many health systems have one main EMR used as the source of truth for patient data. However, in today’s merger and acquisition environment, organizations must be prepared to combine data from...
How ready are healthcare leaders for the future of advanced analytics? The short answer—there is a way to go. A recentsurveyfrom IDG reveals that only 25% of IT leaders expect advanced analytics,...
The lessons learned from analyzing breaches in 2020 has underlined the need for healthcare providers to double-down on security. The recent Colonial Pipeline attack has, once again, demonstrated the...
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...
I have been in the healthcare IT industry for years, and I remember when network and hardware infrastructure were an afterthought, with healthcare facilities supported by a handful of servers. Things...
In my role as an Epic EHR Architect, as well as my “side job” as a critical care nurse serving in overwhelmed units during the pandemic, I can attest to the importance of streamlined nursing...
HealthIT.gov lists continued quality improvement as the last step in implementing or upgrading a hospital EHR system. But quality improvement doesn’t wait until go-live of the EHR. It begins during...
EHR projects often touch every facet of a healthcare organization and therefore involve multiple teams, resources, software providers, and support desks. Working with Epic EHR systems and analytics...
Much fewer words have been dedicated to leveraging the victories of 2020 than capturing the difficulties. As a trained nurse and Epic EHR analyst working with facilities across the country, I have...
After a year of healthcare IT projects being delayed to make way for front-line support, many teams are reassessing projects such as EHR migrations and related implementations or kicking off new...
Healthcare provider organizations that have yet to plan a legacy data management strategy are missing key opportunities to address the new wave of cost pressures, merger and acquisition activity, and...
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...
It goes without question that the EHR is the most significant technology investment for a hospital or health system. With the financial impact(s) of COVID-19, it is more critical than ever for health...
With the first patient death directly tied to a cyberattack in Germany and other recent high-profile cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in the United States, health IT leaders are doubling down...
The need to quickly adopt and scale solutions during the COVID-19 crisis and has reinforced some hard-learned lessons for the successful adoption of new healthcare technology systems. One of which is...
On January 1st, 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) is set to roll out a new set of Evaluation and Management guidelines. This is part of the CMS Paperwork Over Patients Act to reduce the...
CereCore recently discussed the results of a pre-quarantine CHIME CIO survey in this Healthcare IT News interview. In addition, feedback from the CereCore CIO Cohort and recent CHIME focus group has...
Depending on the state the facility is located, medical record retention mandates can require maintaining health records for 10 to 50 years. Mergers, acquisitions, and the adoption of newer platforms...
With the expansion of the telemedicine guidelines and payment criteria, facilities are quickly expanding or rolling out solutions to meet the anticipated demand as well as many vendors and suppliers...
When it comes to ordering laboratory tests within our EHR and related applications, have we inadvertently made the provider’s job more difficult? If the system(s) were designed to operate based on...
As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression. This applies to the go-live of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as well. The first two weeks post go-live will set the...
