December 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The October issue of The American Journal of Managed Care included a fascinating article, "Implementation of EHR-Based Strategies to Improve outpatient CAD Care," in which a group of researchers documented how EHR-facilitated physician alerts alone aren’t enough to improve outcomes for patients with such chronic illnesses as coronary artery disease. It turns out, success requires a savvy combination of financial incentives, IT alerts, and good data analysis.
December 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Lisa Khorey, vice president of enterprise systems and data management at the University of Pittsburgh Medical center (UPMC) health system, shares her perspectives on what made her and her colleagues move forward on a five-year, $100 million enterprise healthcare analytics initiative
November 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has released the patient engagement framework, a five-step model that will attempt to help providers, payers, and other healthcare entities on the path to engaging patients. A few of the stakeholders who helped develop this newly created framework recently discussed the tool on a NeHC-sponsored webinar.
November 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
According to new research from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, various providers in the health information exchange (HIE) market have expressed dissatisfaction with their vendors thanks to continued connectivity issues. The report, "Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces, looked at the insights of more than 200 providers, who cited inadequate support around building timely interfaces for even the highest rated vendors.
October 30, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit academic medical center, announced that is teaming with Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant, IBM, to bring the company’s Watson deep question answering technology in to help the center’s clinicians, faculty, and medical students. Watson, which initially became famous for winning on the game show Jeopardy!, can analyze the meaning and context of human language and quickly process information to piece together evidence for answers, according to IBM.
October 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The New York-based Deloitte announced it has acquired the Newton, Mass.-based Recombinant Data Corp., a data warehousing and analytics provider. Recombinant Data, Deloitte says, uses their warehousing and clinical intelligence software to enable advances in personalized medicine, translational research, and healthcare performance management.
October 4, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the vast UPMC health system in Pittsburgh, Francis X. Solano, M.D., and Jim Venturella have been deeply involved with a broad cadre of their colleagues in helping to support practicing physicians in the organization’s medical groups with the evidence-based information needed to improve care quality—and document that improvement
October 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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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 new era of accountable healthcare, a new role, the chief integration officer, is beginning to take shape to link hospitals and providers in the care continuum.
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.
October 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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In contrast to what happened on November 1, 1999, when the Institute of Medicine released its industry-shaking report, "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System," what happened on September 6, 2012, caused barely a ripple. That was the release of the IOM's third report in a series, this one called "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America," which builds on the thinking presented in its two predecessor reports, and envisions the entire healthcare system continuously learning.
September 30, 2012 Mark Hagland
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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 18, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with John Stanley, Principal with Impact Advisors. John discusses the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, and how that has played into the role health information exchange and analytics technologies will play into the future of healthcare delivery. John also talks about how these two technologies are playing off each other, what providers should know when they are picking out a vendor, and what are the dangers of not addressing these technologies.
