Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

CHIME Hosts Webinar on CHCIO Program

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 07:15 AM PST

The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is hosting a public education webinar on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. (EST) on its Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Program. The webinar — Beyond Certification: A CHIME CHCIO Program Overview — will discuss the CHCIO Program requirements, benefits of becoming a CHCIO, content areas of the examination, and explain what differentiates the CHCIO designation from other industry credentials. Speakers will include: Tim Stettheimer, Ph.D., chair of CHIME’s certification committee and CHIME Board of Trustees as well as senior vice president and regional CIO at St. Vincent’s Health System; Russell Branzell vice president and CIO at Poudre Valley Health System; George McCulloch, associate director, deputy CIO at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Randy McCleese, vice president of information services and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center; and Donna Roach, vice president of information technology and CIO at Bronson Healthcare Group. For more information or to register for the webinar, please click here .  

KLAS: Choosing Application Hosting Means Weighing Benefits

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

In terms of application hosting, healthcare providers are achieving greater success and satisfaction working with software vendors, but are able to host a wider selection of applications by partnering with services firms, according to new research from KLAS (Orem, Utah). The report, entitled, Application Hosting: Offloading Risk and Cost, found that services firms offer the breadth to host a variety of applications but often deliver lower customer satisfaction than software vendors, while the software vendors deliver better performance but typically host only their own solutions. For providers who want all major solutions — including clinical information systems, hospital information systems and enterprise resource planning systems — hosted by the same company, ACS, CSC, Perot and PHNS are the primary options, says KLAS. However, in most cases, the hosting clients of services firms experienced greater downtime issues than clients of software vendors, and some firms were criticized for a lack of healthcare experience. Software vendors, on the other hand, ranked in terms of focus and experience in healthcare, as 90 percent of respondents using Cerner, McKesson and Siemens hosting services say they would recommend their vendor to other providers, while fewer than half of ACS and Velocity respondents would do the same. The top-rated vendor in the report was Cerner, with a score of 84.7, followed by NaviSite (82.8) and McKesson (80.8). Other vendors highlighted in this report are ACS, CSC, Eclipsys, GE, Perot Systems, PHNS, Siemens and Velocity. For more information or to purchase the report, please visit www.KLASresearch.com/reports .    
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