June 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
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David Artz, M.D., CMIO at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, has been very busy lately working with his colleagues to enable new waves of clinical—and IT—innovation. Indeed, he is helping to support exciting new realms of cancer research—the data from which is becoming bigger and bulkier by the day. The answer? A set of self-developed solutions that is creating a new bridge between research and patient care.
June 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) has announced the release of a draft of new best practices that will bring more consistency, clarity, and transparency to patient financial interactions.
June 15, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Senior executives and quality, clinician, and IT leaders at ThedaCare in Appleton, Wis., have been busy visioning the future, both internally, and collaboratively with leaders of other patient care organizations nationwide. Through the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, they are collaborating with other leaders nationwide to spur clinical business intelligence-driven performance improvment.
June 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Center for Connected Health (CCH) in Boston and the Oakland, Calif.-based Center for Technology and Aging (CTA) have collaborated on the development of a tool for analyzing the return on investment (ROI) for remote patient monitoring technologies, enabling healthcare providers to evaluate the financial benefit of these technologies for patients with chronic heart disease.
June 11, 2013 John DeGaspari
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A healthy partnership between accountable care organizations (ACOs) and payers is the linchpin for successfully using the ACO model to better coordinate care, improve population health and reduce care costs. That’s one of the main takeaways of “Transforming Payer Arrangements to Align with New Care Models,” a webinar hosted last week by the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance. The webinar’s participants discussed lessons learned from Premier’s Partnership for Care Transformation (PACT) Population Health Collaborative, an initiative launched in 2010.
June 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Many providers are looking at a new revenue cycle management (RCM) system in terms of how it fits in with a single-source enterprise strategy, something that New York-based Ellis Medicine has implemented with Siemens’ RCM solution. Ellis CIO David Snyder and director of information technology Veronica Ziac spoke further with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal about having a single-enterprise solution as well as challenges and trends in the RCM market.
June 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
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During the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit that was held June 4-6 in Orlando, Fla., Karen Timberlake, director of the Madison, Wis.-based Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform, delivered a compelling presentation entitled “Go Big or Go Home: Lessons from Payment Reform Experiments in Wisconsin.” Timberlake shared her perspectives on broad bundled payment-based payment initiatives exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland.
June 5, 2013 John DeGaspari
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A study that electronic medical records can validate previously reported adverse drug reactions and report new ones, according to report in the May Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The study, “Comparative Analysis of Pharmacovigilance Methods in Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions from Electronic Medical Records,” examined the use of retrospective medication orders and inpatient laboratory results documented in the medical records to identify adverse reactions.
June 3, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Heritage Provider Network, an integrated care delivery network, based out of Northridge, Calif., recently announced the results of an analytics competition it held, handing out a $500,000 award to a team that had come closest to reaching the benchmark it set. The announcement was made at Health Datapalooza IV, in Washington D.C.
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 16, 2013 Mark Hagland
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In a wide-ranging panel discussion that brought together leaders from a variety of stakeholder groups across healthcare--hospital organizations, physician practices, integrated health systems, organized healthcare, and vendor organizations--industry luminaries agreed on May 16, in the opening panel discussion of the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, on the urgent need for cross-stakeholder collaboration.