November 15, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
On his succession to the role of chairman at the not-for-profit collaborative known as the Scottsdale Institute, Donald Wegmiller offers his views on the trajectory of healthcare going forward, and what CIOs and CMIOs should be doing now to help lead their teams forward into the new healthcare.
November 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
In the wake of the Nov. 6 federal elections, Blair Childs, senior vice president for public affairs at the Charlotte-based Premier health alliance, spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding the election’s implications for healthcare policy and healthcare IT policy
November 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Reactions have begun to pour from across the healthcare industry, in response to the re-election of President Barack Obama, and the maintaining of the House of Representatives by the Republicans and the Senate by the Democrats. According to Robin Raiford, director of research and insights at The Advisory Board Company, the re-election of President Obama along with the lack of af power in Congress, is good news for those leaders driving healthcare IT.
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The ONC's deputy national coordinator for programs and policy repeatedly emphasized the links between the requirements under the meaningful use program and the federal government’s broader goals for healthcare reform and population health.
October 24, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
As Medicare reimbursement issues create gloom for physicians nationwide, medical group leaders nationwide are facing profound 'chicken-or-egg' questions around how and even whether to invest in the critical IT investments, especially clinical ones, that will be needed to forge the new healthcare.
October 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At the MGMA Annual Conference, speakers embedded an implicit acknowledgement of the critical role of healthcare information technology and analytics into their discussions of everything from ACO development to HIE participation.
October 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
MGMA senior executives tell members of the media that their association's members are feeling hampered by policy and reimbursement uncertainty, and holding off on becoming involved in accountable care organizations and other innovative arrangements because of that uncertainty.
October 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
A panel of association leaders from the physician, physician group, hospital, health plan, and employer-purchaser worlds uncovers a mix of optimism and trepidation when it comes to moving the healthcare system forward towards new care delivery and reimbursement models.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The National Coordinator for Health IT uses the opportunity to speak to CHIME Fall Forum attendees to exhort his audience forward in the meaningful use process under the banner of reforming the healthcare system for the benefit of patients, families, communities, and the broader society.
October 13, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At the five-hospital Inova Health System in northern Virginia, Daniel Rosenthal, M.D. is helping to lead a groundbreaking effort to better predict the need for interventions and optimize care transitions, using state-of-the-art clinical information tools in innovative ways.
October 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Cornerstone Health Care’s CIO Tim Terrell talks about the mission-critical IT foundations that will be required for medical groups to participate in the major healthcare reform-related programs, and how important analytics, and the implementation of IT solutions for care coordination, will be going forward
October 4, 2012
news
A simulation model-based analysis of the effects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program on Medicare costs for patients aged 65 to 75 with type 2 diabetes finds very minimal cost savings, and its authors conclude that only with the strategic application of information technology and the use of care coordination, can those cost savings be increased in the future
