Communication leads to buy-in which fosters ownership and accountability. Accountability gives you return on your investment.

We basically went into an emergency situation to save the investment we've placed out there.

Our vision is for Stoltenberg to develop our staff strengths and knowledge to enable us to be self-reliant for other near term conversions.

Stoltenberg Consulting has worked with us on other projects and has been a trusted advisor. We sought this expertise for our first conversions.

Technology conversions are major events for an organization -- encompassing multiple years and millions of dollars -- in this case $9 million. It's very ambitious and we wanted to do it right. It's a system-wide effort with a steadfast focus on our vision of providing even better patient outcomes by improving provider satisfaction, productivity and quality of care.

A word to the wise is infuriating.