June 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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According to a survey of 139 hospital and health system executives by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), only 20 percent of physicians believe they are “very prepared” and have the necessary infrastructure to support quality and outcomes-based management. This reinforces the need for services that will help hospitals as they work with their physicians and physician practices to transition to the new models of care.
June 12, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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With more than 1.3 million unique patient identities in its master person index, the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC) is rapidly growing as the state’s health information exchange (HIE). NMHIC CIO Craig Hewitt recently spoke to HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal about challenges, HIE trends, and how the government can better enable health information exchange.
May 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Intermountain Healthcare's Brent James, M.D. gave his audience a rousing closing keynote address on May 17, as the HCI Executive Summit concluded in San Francisco, with a dual focus on the healthcare reimbursement landscape of the future, and healthcare IT's role in needed clinical and health system transformation.
May 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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According to a recent analysis by consulting firm Deloitte, 71 percent of all physicians believe that the promise of reduced costs resulting from increased use of health IT tools is inflated and that it will actually cost more, not less.
May 9, 2013 David Raths
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Much like Care Team Connnect, eCaring LLC grew out its founder’s experience of having trouble getting information about in-home care for a family member. Robert Herzog’s business experience was in digital media, not healthcare. But seven years ago, as he kept hearing from friends and colleagues going through the same challenges he had faced in caring for his mother, he saw both an unmet need and a business opportunity.
May 8, 2013 David Raths
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Like many entrepreneurial efforts in health care, the inspiration for Care Team Connect grew out of a personal experience. CEO Benjamin Albert had worked at PatientKeeper Inc., a company that was doing some impressive work in acute- care settings. “Then my grandfather had a stroke, and I watched as the post-acute-care world failed around him,” Albert says.
April 30, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office for the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) will host a listening session on May 3 to discuss the increase in code levels billed for some Medicare services, and appropriate coding in an increasingly electronic environment.
April 29, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Hospitals and health systems nationwide are projecting a significant shift in 2013 admissions from inpatient to outpatient settings as they transition toward new care delivery models, according to Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance’s spring 2013 Economic Outlook.
April 29, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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South Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records (EHR) of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) health information exchange (HIE).
April 26, 2013 Mark Hagland
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As I write this column, the news has just broken that scientists at the University of Texas-Austin have developed an “invisibility cloak”—something at least conceptually akin to the shroud that Harry Potter wore in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows,” as he floated around the Hogwarts School and other places and spied on people and snuck into places where he wasn’t supposed to go.
April 18, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance has partnered with Phytel, a Dallas, Tx.-based health IT vendor, to automate population health services, helping health systems deliver safer and lower-cost care across the continuum.
April 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Sixty percent of U.S. hospital executives expect bigger budgets in 2013, with the highest level of spending dedicated to IT, according to a study from global management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, which also found that more than 80 percent of surveyed hospitals making future plans to join or already participating in an accountable care organization (ACO).
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