December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
blog
Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
August 30, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Michelle Cunningham, M.D., a solo practitioner in Houston, has a busier life than most people could even imagine. For her, technology is a must-have set of tools for making all the pieces of her professional and personal life work.
August 8, 2012
news
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Administrator Pamela S. Hyde today announced more than $4 million in new grants for Health Information Technology (HIT) service for communities across the nation. The purpose of this program is to leverage technology to enhance and/or expand the capacity of substance abuse treatment providers to serve people who traditionally have been underserved because of lack of access to treatment in their immediate community.
June 26, 2012 John DeGaspari
blog
Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., has used lean sigma disciplines as a basis of continuous improvement and to ensure sustainable business outcomes.
June 25, 2012 John DeGaspari
blog
This year’s annual conference of the Healthcare Financial Management Association in Las Vegas is an great example of interesting timing, because it may well coincide with the Supreme Court’s expected announcement of its decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
April 18, 2012 David Raths
article
Health insurers that used to focus on individual claims are now looking across their entire membership to better define the appropriate level of financial risk to assign and to drive the right kinds of interventions. Many are making a determined effort to share their predictive analytics findings with clinicians.
April 4, 2012
blog
I don’t understand why application vendors place little importance on reporting requirements. I get the fact that customers like to customize their reports, but why not make that an inherent feature? Maybe that is why the market is constantly creating so many 3rd party Business Intelligence (BI) vendors. But what about Clinical Intelligence (CI) requirements?
July 21, 2011 John DeGaspari
blog
At a time when hospitals are being pressured to do more with less, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, an 864-bed teaching hospital in Houston, is taking steps to improve its operational efficiency, which it expects will allow it to realize significant cost savings, better manage the length of patient stay and improve patient satisfaction.
June 16, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
article
In May 2009 Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 508-bed academic medical center, implemented an automated eReferral management system from the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Carefx Corp. to fund its community information exchange and solve a key problem of lack of system-wide referral standardization.
May 26, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo and John Degaspari
article
In the rapidly changing healthcare IT landscape, the top IT vendors are the enablers that provide the largest percentage of crucial tools that will allow hospitals and physician groups to meet the challenges of healthcare reform. What follows is a sampling of six vendors that have established themselves as technology leaders with innovative solutions on a variety of fronts, from a virtual tool to interact with patients, to e-prescribing, mobile chronic disease management, and accountable care solutions.
May 19, 2011 David Raths
article
With so much news being made on the clinical front these days, the April 26 announcement of a merger between Lawson Software and Infor, backed by private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, may not have made a huge splash in the industry. But Lawson’s healthcare enterprise resource planning customers are keeping a watchful eye on the merger. Most seem to be cautiously optimistic about how the combined companies will proceed.
