John Halamka published a blog post titled “The Draft FY10 IS Clinical Systems Plan” regarding Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center last week. CIOs at health systems always have a long list of projects and a finite amount of resources. It was sobering to read that BIDMC won’t have a big bull’s eye on data warehousing, however there was funding for decision support in the plan for the following areas:

• Implement Performance Manager reports and dashboards as needed to support
  organizational needs.
  

  Implement clinical data marts as needed to enable quality measurement, pay
  for performance goals, and other decision support needs.
  

  Enhance the Community Provider Index to better support Health Information
  Exchange via NEHEN gateways.
  

  Implement enhancements to the Patient Activity Profile to support enhanced
  reviews required by JCAHO.
  

  Enhance SOAR (Accounts Receivable workflow) to support denial tracking and
  appeals workflow
  

  Explore the introduction of new Business Intelligence tools as funding
  permits
  

  Support Cactus and NEHEN Express users

Dan Housman
Managing Director, Analytical Applications

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