tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post4488200255365573243..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: External oversight needed for hospital EMR implementation?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-8155799865887823592007-06-15T11:55:00.000-04:002007-06-15T11:55:00.000-04:00Anonymous said...Lancaster General is actually an ...<I>Anonymous said...Lancaster General is actually an impressive healthcare organization</I><BR/><BR/>I don't doubt it. However, I don't think Information Technology is the core competency of any hospital.InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39552361540229036162007-06-14T17:33:00.000-04:002007-06-14T17:33:00.000-04:00Lancaster General is actually an impressive health...Lancaster General is actually an impressive healthcare organization - look in US News and World Report from 2005 - they were listed for something like six diseases.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-73330348711368141972007-06-11T19:56:00.000-04:002007-06-11T19:56:00.000-04:00Anonymous wrote:Informatics 101 will tell you that...Anonymous wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>Informatics 101 will tell you that the absolutely cheapest part of any EMR implementation is the computer hardware.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, the informatics courses I teach are at the 600 and 700 level, but let's not go there at this moment.<BR/><BR/>Some have commented privately that the problems are indeed not hardware costs, but all the other processes, people and InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-85490582078078604032007-06-11T16:11:00.000-04:002007-06-11T16:11:00.000-04:00Informatics 101 will tell you that the absolutely ...Informatics 101 will tell you that the absolutely cheapest part of any EMR implementation is the computer hardware. It isn't even a significant component of the total cost. It's background noise. Usually the hardware isn't even purchased from the vendor. The most expensive part is personnel. <BR/> <BR/> As to what vendors charge, that's open for discussion. From my perspective, part of theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-6890466843553683822007-06-08T15:52:00.000-04:002007-06-08T15:52:00.000-04:00That is a sobering response. Yes, I imagine we in...That is a sobering response. <BR/><BR/>Yes, I imagine we in healthcare have gotten accustomed to rape and pillage by corporate greed.<BR/><BR/>On top of all these cost issues in health IT is the fact that most of the CIO's and healthcare IT workers I've met are comfortable with this status quo, and at the same time unqualified to be leading EMR projects. I've also worked with some who are, to InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-30190725985350558662007-06-08T11:31:00.000-04:002007-06-08T11:31:00.000-04:00As a seasoned RN having just spent the last 12 yea...As a seasoned RN having just spent the last 12 years in health care IT at a large 900 bed hospital working with Clinical and Business Applications and as a Network Director I can tell you that it IS that expensive. I refer to it as the "rape and pillage" of health care by corporate greed.<BR/><BR/>In the selection process for an EMR implementation, we discovered that a major hospital in KentuckyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com