October 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
As tip-of-the-spear healthcare industry leaders, senior executives at the UPMC health system see where the proverbial puck is headed, and they’re skating towards it as powerfully as they can.
September 30, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
On Oct. 1, the 20-plus-hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system announced that it had completed an agreement with several IT vendor partner organizations that will involve UPMC investing $100 million over the next five years on a comprehensive enterprise analytics initiative to foster personalized medicine and improve the patient care quality and cost-effectiveness of the Pittsburgh-based health system.
September 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At Hunterdon Healthcare, executive leaders are moving forward on a broad range of fronts to implement a variety of initiatives, from the patient-centered medical home model among its physician groups, to health information exchange. And they share what they're learning about the opportunities and challenges to integrated health systems going forward.
September 13, 2012
news
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in honor of National Health IT Week, is honoring several policy leaders, who the group says has helped improve healthcare delivery with the best use of health information technology and management systems. This year, Mary Wakefield, Ph.D, R.N., the administrator of health resources and services administration (HRSA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Honorable Linda Upmeyer, of the Iowa House of Representatives, were recognized.
August 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
David Weinberger's book "Too Big to Know" offers a provocative look, with some keen insights into a basic problem in today's Internet-driven society: how do we even decide who's an expert, and what’s a fact? It can all get very complicated very fast.
August 13, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
article
Organizations are working on a multitude of initiatives to prepare for greater contractual risk for population management, while also moving toward value-based care initiatives. In this post-ACA (Affordable Care Act) era of healthcare, a new role, the chief integration officer, is beginning to emerge, says Amanda Berra, practice manager, research and insights at The Advisory Board Company.
July 23, 2012 Eric Mueller, Services President, WPC
article
As providers seek to address patient engagement requirements associated with changing payment models and new regulatory mandates, how can they engage patients while still protecting their data security?
July 10, 2012
news
Physicians reported moderate shifts in compensation in 2011, according to respondents to the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data. For example, primary care physicians reported a 5.16 percent increase in median compensation. Physicians in family practice (without OB) reported median earnings of $200,114, and those in pediatric/adolescent medicine earned $203,948 in median compensation. Internists also reported a 5 percent increase in compensation.
July 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Spectrum Health’s J. Michael Kramer, M.D. sees a world of opportunity in moving his western Michigan health system forward to fully leverage the benefits of the electronic health record to create the clinical transformation needed in today’s healthcare.
June 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
Regardless of what happens on Thursday in the Supreme Court, it’s clear that AMDIS’s member CMIOs and medical informaticists will continue to push ahead in creating practical change in their patient care organizations and across the U.S. healthcare system
