May 31, 2023

Empowering Healthcare Excellence: The Vital Role of Clinical Asset Management

Read Time: 2 min Beyond ensuring that medical devices function properly, clinical asset management remains challenging for health organizations.
May 24, 2023

What IT advancements are needed to improve value-based care

Read Time: 4 min The shift to value-based care models in healthcare will require significant IT advancements. Prepare your organization with these tech tips.
February 16, 2021

Legacy System Considerations for Cerner Tools and Applications

Read Time: 2 min If the Cerner EHR is ever decommissioned, there are several Cerner Tools to consider when accessing or transferring your data.
October 21, 2020

Leading a Virtual International Epic Go-Live Through a Pandemic

Read Time: 2 min In partnership with The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Optimum Healthcare IT successfully completed the first international virtual Epic go-live.
September 30, 2020

Epic to Integrate Microsoft Teams Connector

Read Time: 2 min The Microsoft Teams Connector, will allow clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or consult in Teams directly from their EHR system.
June 11, 2020

Virtual Epic Go-Live at Valley Children’s Healthcare

Read Time: 2 min In partnership with Valley Children's Healthcare, Optimum Healthcare IT successfully completed the first 100% virtual Epic EHR go-live.
May 27, 2020

Multi-Facility Integrated EHR and Technology Implementation & Training at Tower Health

Read Time: 2 min Optimum Healthcare IT successfully completed multi-facility integrated EHR and technology implementation and training at Tower Health.
February 11, 2020

Maintenance & Support Managed Services at an Academic Medical Center

Read Time: 2 min Academic Medical Center realizes a 36% overall cost reduction with Optimum Healthcare IT's Managed Services.
June 18, 2019

Preparing For a Planned Go-Live Staffing Taper

Read Time: 2 min When a healthcare organization is preparing to bring live an EHR system, the costs are high. From implementation and training, and through go-live, managing the budget is essential. A planned taper is a critical step.
May 22, 2019

Post-Live Training: Converting Face-to-Face Content to eLearning

Read Time: 3 min Converting face-to-face content to eLearning should be among your training strategy considerations for post-live EHR training.
January 8, 2019

Are You Ready For Your Next Epic Upgrade?

Read Time: 4 min Upgrades are a common process that all Epic customers spend countless hours and significant amounts of energy to implement. Each upgrade is different, and each come with their challenges.
November 27, 2018

Did EHRs Fix Everything?

Read Time: 3 min The trepidation and anxiousness that preceded the influx of EHR installations was predictable as the entire industry was thrown into upheaval. There was the promise that EHRs could fix the ailments that had long plagued the healthcare industry.  But did EHRs fix everything?
August 2, 2018

Optimum Healthcare IT Sets Itself Apart in KLAS Go-Live Services Report

Read Time: 3 min Optimum Healthcare IT is featured as a top-rated large-scale firm in the Go-Live Services as outlined in the KLAS Go-Live Services 2018 report.
July 6, 2018

Pediatric Patients (and Pediatric EHRs) Must Be Treated Differently

Read Time: 3 min In healthcare, there are all types of facilities & settings. All of these different care settings can benefit from some form of electronic health record (EHR) software, each with their own specific needs for the patients that they serve.
May 1, 2018

With Rhyme and Reason, Epic Launches Sonnet into the Market

Read Time: 3 min The long-anticipated launch of Epic’s new scaled-down EHR, known as Sonnet, took place in March at HIMSS18 with tremendous excitement. Is the Community Hospital market ready to be successful with it?
February 1, 2018

3 Questions with Chris Longhurst, CIO at UC San Diego Health

Read Time: 3 min Optimum Healthcare IT’s “3 Questions with…” executive interview series, where we interview top thought leaders in the Healthcare IT space.
January 18, 2018

We Successfully Installed Our New EHR – Why Haven’t Things Changed?

Read Time: 5 min New software implementations require a change that affects people and processes. The implementation of an organization-wide EHR or ERP software system involves significant change throughout the organization that impacts most, if not all, employees and patients.
January 10, 2018

Guiding Principles to Consider When Using Cerner’s Model Order Sets

Read Time: 3 min Smaller organizations, which usually cannot afford the subscription maintenance, should consider the Cerner Model Order Sets as part of their Cerner Implementation. hese order sets are based on what other Cerner clients designed, and use within their organizations.
December 14, 2017

Claim Denials…Why do we still struggle after all these years?

Read Time: 3 min Regardless of how great your frontline staff is, claim denials are an unfortunate part of the medical billing terrain.  Medical coding and billing is a complicated field, but steps can be taken to streamline the process and reduce the number of claim denials.
August 31, 2017

The Master Training Environment’s (MST) Role in Go-Live Readiness

Read Time: 3 min The MST environment build provides experience and a depth of knowledge that will also build each trainer’s confidence prior to delivering Instructor Led Training (ILT).  A solid master training environment promotes efficient and effective training and will help to ensure your organizational go-live readiness.
August 17, 2017

4 Questions with Jon Morris, Former SVP & CIO of WellStar Health System

Read Time: 4 min Optimum Healthcare IT’s “4 Questions with…” executive interview series, where we interview top thought leaders in the Healthcare IT space.