March 13, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has announced its investing in analytics software from the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant IBM, which will test the effectiveness of a real-time alarm that tries and predicts rising brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injuries. Also joining this collaboration is and Excel Medical Electronics (EME), a Jupiter, Fla.-based data acquisition platform provider.
March 4, 2013 David Raths
news
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.
February 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
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.
February 26, 2013 John DeGaspari
article
Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging option for healthcare provider organizations, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, both from the clinical as well as the business perspectives. After all, as noted in this issue’s Top Tech Trends feature package, revenues are increasingly being tied to better outcomes, social media tools are empowering patients to play an active role in their own healthcare, and telemedicine is gaining ground, just to name a few of the trends that are making cloud computing a viable platform in healthcare.
February 25, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Starting on Feb. 25, entrepreneurs and innovators with novel solutions for tackling the worldwide diabetes epidemic are invited to enter the Healthcare Innovation World Cup for a chance to win part of $75,000 in total funding and key visibility with industry leaders.
February 13, 2013 John DeGaspari
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With the advent of policy-driven changes under healthcare reform, the traditional revenue cycle management practices based on encounter-based billing activities are being swept aside. With that inevitability, provider organizations are considering how to best realign their accounts receivable processes to maximize those revenues that are pegged to data-driven quality outcomes in patient care.
February 13, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
In his first State of the Union address of his second term, President Barack Obama on Feb. 12 directly addressed some of the challenges and opportunities facing the federal Medicare program in the coming years, citing value-based purchasing in particular as an important change to the U.S. healthcare system, as well as proposing changes in pharmaceutical policy and in Medicare rules for wealthy seniors.
February 6, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
When Carolyn Clancy, M.D., announced on Jan. 31 that she was leaving the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which she had headed for almost exactly 10 years (she became that agency’s director on Feb. 5, 2003, after previously working at the agency as director of its Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research), it signaled the end of an era.
February 5, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
I was fascinated last month by a New York Times article I read about an initiative tying physician pay in New York City's public hospitals to the outcomes measures those hospitals will be paid against under healthcare reform.
February 1, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
MD Anderson, the Houston-based cancer center, has announced its going to start up an organization-wide analytics initiative, aimed at creating new types of personalized cancer treatments. The cancer center said it will use the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle to lay the foundation for this analytics initiative, which will aim to bring together clinical, genomic, financial, administrative and operational information from internal and external sources.
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