May 17, 2013 John DeGaspari
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In a Friday morning session during the HCI Executive Summit, Sharon Conklin, R.N., M.B.A., vice president of sales, Healthcare-IQ, LLC, noted that charges for the same procedure can vary significantly from hospital to hospital.
May 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Bed management software applications, which are used to manage the use of beds in the hospital, present as a “hot” market for vendors and providers to watch, according to data from the recently released HIMSS Analytics report, "Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market."
May 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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With its connections to payers, providers, and vendors, Nashville, Tenn.-based Emdeon understands how to deliver solutions that best impact the flow of information for all parties to increase efficiency and maximize profitability. A company whose industry reputation has long been as a clearinghouse for medical claims, Emdeon has recently expanded its boundaries as the market continues to evolve.
May 13, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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To control costs and improve results, many medical groups are evaluating a new generation of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions. After partnering with Atlanta-based vendor Ingenious Med, Emory Healthcare considers itself much better equipped to deal with its revenue cycle management. Karen England, CPC, Emory's revenue cycle administrator and assistant director of revenue cycle operations, recently spoke with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal about RCM at Emory.
March 19, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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According to the Charlotte-N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance, hospitals nationwide could save 950,000 lives and approximately $93 billion over five years by replicating practices achieved by members of the QUEST collaborative, a project launched by Premier in 2007 aimed to help members deliver the best possible care to each patient, every time.
March 15, 2013 David Raths
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There was a real sense among the attendees, speakers and vendors at the Philadelphia event that something has changed. The issues they have been working at over the past several years have swung into clear focus, as payment reform initiatives force health systems of every stripe to consider how paying for value translates into both individual care plans for patients and system-wide changes to better study how looking at data differently might impact the quality and cost of care.
March 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
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It’s frightfully easy to get caught up in the crazed, whirling dervish-like swirl of the HIMSS Conference. But the reality of what everyone in healthcare IT is working towards these days hit home for me shortly after I got back home from HIMSS13 in New Orleans.
March 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Comments made by Marilyn Tavenner, R.N., of CMS, and Farzad Mostashari, M.D., of the ONC on Wednesday at the HIMSS Conference were fascinating on many levels and along many dimensions-and well worth pondering in some depth.
March 4, 2013 David Raths
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Ochsner Health System CEO Warner Thomas said that like the city, his organization looks much different now than it did before Katrina. And health IT is a big part of the change.
March 4, 2013
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Monday morning at the HIMSS Conference has been a study in contrasts, with a water safety crisis in New Orleans, and keynote messages that seemed somehow particularly appropriate for this time of unprecedented challenge in healthcare
February 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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On Thursday morning, Feb. 28, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Jonathan Blum, CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and Director, was scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance regarding “the progress made building a high-quality, affordable healthcare system as a result of the Affordable Care Act ACA] reforms,” according to an announcement from CMS.
