Tag Archive: paragon

Sep
20

A talk with Practice Partner’s Chad Hendricks

Chad Hendricks, a part of the Practice Partner, Paragon and McKesson family comes on today’s show to talk about how Practice Partner and Paragon want to change how hospital’s and providers interact. As always, I welcome your comments either here on the blog, or by emailing me directly at spencer@itpodcast.org. If you would like to …

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May
03

Are you Stagnant?

Because I was unable to get the interview with executives from Meditech this last week, we will fall back to our typical format with news and information, followed by some questions about leadership and what happens when leaders become stagnant and stop learning. I will be taking my first vacation in about 4 years over …

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Apr
19

A Talk with Jim Pesce of McKesson’s Paragon Group

On this week’s show, we talk with Jim Pesce, Executive Vice President and General Manager of McKesson’s Paragon group about what is going on with the Paragon Hospital Information System.  I still need other vendors to give me a call so we can feature their products and what is going on with them.  Jim asked …

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Apr
04

CMS Never Events-Interview with Coryee Hamons

On this week’s show, we talk about the CMS “Never Events” and talk with San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center’s Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Coryee Hamons about how these never events are going to affect hospitals and the challenges we face.  I have not forgotten about the multi-part series to talk about the various …

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Mar
15

Selecting an HIS – March 2008

Episode 106, released March 15, 2008. In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, I am kicking off a multi-part series about the various integrated hospital information systems (HIS) that are available in the marketplace.  In this part of the series, we talk about the use of selection and implementation vendors …

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Feb
16

KLAS Research – A Talk with Steve VanWagenen

Episode 104, released February 16, 2008.  In this weeks show, in addition to our typical discussion around current news, we have Steve VanWagenen, one of the research directors from KLAS as our guest.  Also, this episode features a discussion of the differences between Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry devices versus Windows Mobile Devices and their use …

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Jan
05

My take on various hospital information systems

Since we are going to be discussing the pros and cons of various Hospital Information Systems on our podcast, I thought I would add some comments here. Being that the majority of my experiences have been in the community hospital market, I tend to give a lot of attention to “Integrated” hospital information systems.  When …

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