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EHR Go-Live Jargon Decoded: Your Go-To Guide to Key Terms
Whether you’re a clinical leader, IT director, or executive sponsor, preparing for an EHR Go-Live often comes with a steep learning curve, and much of that curve is language. Implementation teams toss around unfamiliar terms, acronyms, and workflows that can make even the most experienced professionals feel like they are learning a new dialect. Suddenly,…
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Clinical Chart Abstraction 101: The Foundations of Successful Clinical Chart Abstraction
When a healthcare organization transitions to a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, every detail matters but especially clinical chart abstraction. What is Clinical Chart Abstraction? Clinical chart abstraction is the process of identifying, reviewing, and transferring essential patient information such as allergies, medications, immunizations, problem lists, and medical histories from legacy medical records into…
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Strategic Collaboration Drives Seamless Go-Live for Major Health System
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. August 19, 2025 — CSI recently completed a successful Epic go-live in partnership with a medium sized health system in the United States. This engagement brought together CSI’s Training and Activation teams to deliver fully integrated support across the organization’s enterprise-wide implementation. The engagement began in late November 2024 with the deployment of…
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Keeping AI Applications Honest
Caution! This content was not written by AI, an actual human being wrote this. How do we ensure that AI is set up appropriately and behaving responsibly in our healthcare organizations? Typically, systems, devices, and applications send data to logs; traditionally, that data is accumulated and reported monthly. Errors are corrected, abuses addressed, and problems fixed, but…
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Automating Risk Management and Cybersecurity Compliance in Healthcare
For the last couple of newsletters, I have been writing from a fairly general level as introductions to this topic. In this newsletter, we attempt to get down to some technical details and examples of why automating your risk management and compliance is so important. We’ll even note how we are seeing AI being used…
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Rigorous Change Management and Vendor Management in Healthcare
In light of recent outages, let’s go back to basics and reexamine best practices for change management and vendor management in healthcare. Healthcare Change Management Discussion An appropriate change management program is one of the pillars of maintaining a robust, resilient, and secure IT environment in healthcare. This program should be governed by a team of…
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Understanding Cyber Risk Quantification: A Game Changer for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations
Cybersecurity is obviously a critical concern for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance are typically managed with a biannual or yearly audit, which then generates items to be remediated to bring the organization into compliance. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, traditional methods of assessing and managing these risks are proving inadequate. This is evident in the…
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Adopting AI in Healthcare: Who Needs to be Involved
The decision to adopt AI for use in clinical settings and enterprise business systems in healthcare should involve a wide range of constituents. A variety of departments and functions, from the board of directors to all the way down to line workers, will need to give input, author policies, write procedures, and be involved in…
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Guy Cuddihee Scholarship 2024 Recipients
CSI Companies is proud to announce the recipients of the Guy Cuddihee Memorial Scholarship, Aria Brown and Ian Rasch CSI Companies is committed to giving back and grants an annual college scholarship to a local high school student in memory of well-known local philanthropist Guy Cuddihee. Each year, the Guy Cuddihee Memorial Scholarship identifies and awards…