- January 14, 2010
TBG Advisory Board Member Bill Spooner Named CHIME CIO of the Year
- December 1, 2009
Carolina's Medical Center Northeast
- November 2, 2009
Hope Network Go Live
- October 1, 2009
Baylor Health Care Systems contracts with TBG
- August 12, 2009
TBG voted to 2009 Inc. 500/5000 list
- July 14, 2009
NewYork Presbyterian ‐ Columbia
- July 14, 2009
USC Care Medical Group
- May 22, 2009
UT Medical Group Assessment
- May 22, 2009
CHOMP - Mission Sim Completed!
- April 29, 2009
Massachusetts General Hospital plans Go Live Fall 2009!
- March 16, 2009
USC Care Medical Group Implements Centricity Business
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January 14, 2010 – TBG Advisory Board Member Bill Spooner Named CHIME CIO of the Year
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced that the recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award is William Spooner, FCHIME, Senior Vice President and CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego. The award, co-sponsored by CHIME and Chicago-based HIMSS, recognizes healthcare IT executives who have made significant contributions to their organizations and demonstrated innovative leadership through effective use of technology. Spooner has been with Sharp HealthCare since 1981 and has served as CIO for the past 13 years. He is currently leading Sharp’s efforts to implement computer-based physician order entry, a key component of the organization’s patient safety initiative and the foundation for its emerging EMR. According to CHIME, Spooner has served as Chair of the CHIME Board in 2006 and Chair of the CHIME Foundation Board in 2007. He has been a frequent presenter at the HIMSS conference and is active in his local chapter. Spooner will receive the award at the annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga. on March 2.
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December 1, 2009 – Carolina's Medical Center Northeast
TBG’s partnership with GE provides continued opportunities to assist GE with end‐user training and onsite support. GE contacted TBG to support Carolina Medical Center’s (CMC) Northeast conversion of its RIS department’s applications to Carolina’s Healthcare System standards. Rounding out GE’s team of four, the TBG team was able to provide valuable support during the go live. GE had contracted with CMC to provide end‐user support for the Centricity RIS‐IC application deployed four years earlier in their hospital network. After a quick orientation of the client’s needs and expectations, it was good to reconnect with some GE contacts while on site at CMC. Implementation leaders from CMC were overly thrilled with the end‐user support the team provided and expressed their appreciation for the long hours spent supporting CMC NE.
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November 2, 2009 – Hope Network Go Live
On November 2, 2009, Hope Network went “live” on their new HCS Interactant Electronic Medical Record, and TBG was on site to provide end‐user support. TBG, along with the Hope Network Core Team, supported the Rehabilitation facilities in Grand Rapids, Michigan as clinicians began documenting care in the EMR! Hope Network will continue the rollout with a phased implementation. Rehabilitation in Lansing, Michigan is scheduled for implementation in early January 2010, and the rollout will continue throughout the other affiliates and locations during the remainder of the year.
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October 1, 2009 – Baylor Health Care Systems contracts with TBG
Baylor Health Care Systems has contracted with The Breakaway Group to provide a learning strategy for their GE RIS/PACS implementation. TBG led a Discovery process during late August and, because of an abbreviated timeline, task validations began the following week! Baylor is located in Dallas, Texas and is home to 8 hospitals with 6000 end‐users. RIS and PACS simulators are planned for the end‐users, with the Grapeline location Go Live scheduled for November 6. Additional hospitals will go live on the new application every 90 days, taking this project into 2012.
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August 12, 2009 – TBG voted to 2009 Inc. 500/5000 list
The Breakaway Group was voted by Inc. 500/5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America in 2009. By industry, TBG was ranked 18th in Education and 1293rd overall. This honor puts The Breakaway Group in rarified company, especially considering the more than 27 million businesses registered in the US.
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July 14, 2009 – NewYork Presbyterian ‐ Columbia
New York City is home to The Breakaway Group’s newest client! Work began at NewYork Presbyterian ‐ Columbia University Medical Center in early June for the GE RIS v10.6 implementation. Task validations and storyboards for seven courses have been completed and production efforts are underway to support a mid‐September Go‐Live. We will be conducting Application Coach workshops in early August and TBG resources will be in the Big Apple to provide Go‐Live support September 15.
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July 14, 2009 – USC Care Medical Group
The greatest compliment we can receive is a referral from a client, so imagine the impact when a client demonstrates our simulators and learning methodology to a GE Users Group! USC Care Medical Group did exactly that at the Western Regional User’s Group (WRUG) meeting in LA in late June. TBG attended the conference and was available for questions regarding the PromisePoint™ Community. The following week, TBG completed the GE Centricity Business implementation at USC Care Medical Group in Los Angeles by providing Go‐Live Support during their implementation of the new application. We were onsite to provide at‐the‐elbow support to end users, and assisted USC staff remotely, providing curriculum updates and LMS support. TBG will be conducting Post‐Go‐Live surveys of the USC staff and TBG will provide metrics to USC’s leadership team at USC in late July.
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Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption
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TBG is excited to announce the Research Team’s latest publishing endeavor. Drs. Haugen and Woodside head up a team that will research, write, design and publish a book about the “Adoption Gap” – the gap that exists between organizations implementing and adopting new healthcare technologies. Thanks to newly-allocated ARRA stimulus funds for nationwide electronic health and medical record implementation, our industry is in the spotlight, and this book will not only explain the gap, but also will represent how TBG can help organizations succeed in adopting an EMR.
May 22, 2009 – UT Medical Group Assessment
Early assessments at UT Medical Group indicate that end users are adjusting well to the new TouchWorks electronic medical record. Departments of Urology, Medicine, and ENT went live on the application during the first quarter of 2009, and Jill Truitt, CIO, reports that end users have adopted the application and are comfortable with their new workflows and processes. Additional departments, including Behavioral Health and Family Medicine, will be going live within the next few weeks. The Breakaway Group will work with UT Medical Group to provide onsite support as necessary.
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May 22, 2009 – CHOMP - Mission Sim Completed!
The Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) successfully completed its Centricity RIS-IC Simulation (SIM) on Monday, April 27. We were onsite the first week of SIM to begin the continuing education unit (CEU) examination of the Radiology Technologists and to support the preimplementation effort. CHOMP embraced its Mission Possible theme and decorated the “Mission Control” or Command Center with brief cases, trench coats, disguise glasses and hats. The day started with an upbeat message from Eric LoMonaco, Director of Radiology Services, reminding the staff of the goals of “Mission SIM.”
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April 29, 2009 – Massachusetts General Hospital plans Go Live Fall 2009!
With its football-themed “RIS Replacement Drive” project under way, MGH looks forward to their User Adoption Strategy Review on May 1, where they will get a first look at their customized learning solution design.
The Breakaway Group has also received 20 Concept Assessment Surveys from MGH’s Super Users. TBG compiles and studies the results to determine how to build the best curriculum for the MGH RIS courses.
Making progress 10 yards at a time will get the MGH Radiology Department to its implementation goal. MGH will round out its project branding with a strong end user communication document (“Playbook”) and knowledgeable Application Coaches (“Referees”).
Check back for new updates as the project continues its drive up the field!
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March 16, 2009 – USC Care Medical Group Implements Centricity Business
As spring approaches, The Breakaway Group is blooming at University of Southern California Care Medical Group in Los Angeles, California!
In mid-February, we met with key members of the implementation team to kick off the Centricity Business implementation project.
With 800 identified users and a projected go live date of July 1, The Breakaway Group will begin task validations at the end of March.
Storyboards will be developed immediately following our task validations, and production will be gearing up for simulator development in early April.
USC Care Medical Group is the pilot site for our new Concept Survey. The survey information received from the client was analyzed by our instructional designers. This information was used to determine content and tasks for the simulator curriculum.
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