July 8, 2013 David Raths
HealtheConnections' transition required a lot of planning and forethought, a close working relationship with the new vendor on data migration and project management, and the RHIO team's confidence that it could manage the transition without upsetting data providers or users.
June 27, 2013 David Raths
The privacy requirements for business associates are changing. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule that became effective March 26 started the clock running on the transition. Starting in September, business associates and their subcontractors must follow the privacy provisions of a business associate agreement and the HIPAA Security Rule, and they face legal obligations and enforcement risk if they do not.
June 25, 2013 David Raths
Perhaps what these promotions illustrate is that healthcare organizations are starting to appreciate the project management and people skills demonstrated in large IT implementations and their importance to core business operations.
June 20, 2013 David Raths
Some CIOs blame told KLAS they blame meaningful use for Meditech 6.0’s immaturity, believing that Meditech would have had more resources to improve the product if it were not devoting so much time to meeting certification requirements.
June 13, 2013 David Raths
Vendors in the analytics-as-a-service space include Apixio, Explorys and Humedica. “This is going to be the way healthcare will consume big data,” said IDC Health Insights' Cynthia Burghard. “It is just too complicated for the average healthcare organization to invest in.”
June 12, 2013 David Raths
What if you could hire a team of software engineers to start from scratch in developing an IT system to fit the needs of your organization? Does that sound too good to be true? That is exactly what JenCare Neighborhood Medical Centers is doing.
June 10, 2013 David Raths
Earlier this year, six U.S. senators released a report questioning the government's investments in health information technology, particularly in the area of interoperability. Understandably, they are impatient to see data flowing between provider settings. But most successful regional health information exchanges seem to have in common that their progress has been slow. Building governance and business models took years but the effort is now paying off.
June 4, 2013 David Raths
Accountable care organization leaders say they have no interest in being software developers. Yet some believe they have no choice but to develop their own systems when they find nothing on the market that matched their needs.
June 4, 2013 David Raths
Jeremy Hunt, MP, Secretary of State for Health in the United Kingdom, reminded the Health Datapalooza audience that the United States is not the only place that technology innovations are being applied to rethink how chronic conditions are treated. (One-quarter of UK citizens have chronic conditions, he noted.) “Several transformational things are happening in the UK,” he said, “and technology is right at the heart of it.”
May 30, 2013 David Raths
Not many healthcare CIOs make the jump to the CEO position. Healthcare Informatics asked Yousuf Ahmad how his five-year tenure as CIO might shape his thinking as CEO of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health.
