October 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report produced by a Loma Linda University Medical Center researcher, and posted on the Annals of Emergency Medicine website, a number of intubated emergency patients within a federal database were listed as both dead and alive. The report calls into the data quality of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), which is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
September 21, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Imaging was largely absent in Stage 1 meaningful use, but with new requirements in Stage 2 to include viewing of image data within the EHR, there will likely be a new focus to develop enterprise imaging strategies and expand interoperability solutions. The picture in this space isn’t as clear as some might hope, but there are pioneering organizations nonetheless making headway to allow anytime, anywhere access to diagnostic images.
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.
September 7, 2012
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UPMC, the 20-plus academic hospital system in Pittsburgh, Pa., is investing $120 million over the next four years in data intelligent infrastructure from the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant, IBM. The goal of UPMC is to change the way that treatments are designed for individual patients by effectively using massive volumes of patient and research data.
September 5, 2012 Jason D. Fortin
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On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law includes, among many other things, mandatory federal programs that require increased accountability from hospitals for the cost and quality of care that is delivered. With payment reform initiatives from States and commercial payers also already well underway, the Court's ruling only accelerates the need for robust HIE and analytics capabilities.
September 4, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Seventy-seven percent of surveyed CIOs said that their healthcare organizations are using data analytics software, according to a joint survey published last week by CHIME and eHealth Initiative. What was consistent across respondents (93 percent) was the fact that data and analytics were “very important” to the future of their organization; however, only 28 percent of organizations have what it takes to meet analytics requirements.
August 28, 2012
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The organization responsible operating Maine’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), HealthInfoNet, has announced it is participating in Demonstrating the Preventative Care Value of Health Information Exchanges, an initiative led by the Chantilly, Va.-based Agilex, a program aimed at s establishing technical standards and protocols that HIEs can use to report de-identified, population-level preventative care data to public health officials.
August 16, 2012
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According to analysis and research from the Mountain View, Calif.-based Frost & Sullivan, accountable care and value-based purchasing is driving the adoption of advanced data analytics. The advanced data analytics, Frost & Sullivan say, comes from a more ‘holistic approach’ that allows clinical data to emerge from clinical data within EHRs, and is combined with financial and administrative information.
August 14, 2012 David Raths
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There is a “talent arms race” going on in healthcare analytics, claims Matthew Bates, a senior executive and partner with consulting firm Accenture. Speaking at the eHealth Initiative’s National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare in Washington, D.C., Bates said analytic maturity has an organizational component and is about skills and talent management as much as about technology infrastructure.
August 3, 2012
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Practice Fusion, the San Francisco-based EHR provider, is teaming with Prior Knowledge, a predictive database provider, in an effort to better interpret health data. Practice Fusion will use Veritable, which is Prior Knowledge’s predictive database, as a way to understand health trends using an unidentified data-set from Practice Fusion.
July 20, 2012
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WorldOne, a New York City-based provider of healthcare insights and intelligence data, has acquired Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo, an online community of U.S. physicians. By acquiring Sermo, with its membership of 130,000 physicians and hundreds of clients, WorldOne is aiming to expand its interactive and digital engagement capabilities.
June 25, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Healthcare Informatics honors the top winners in the Healthcare Informatics/ADMIS 2012 IT Innovation Advocate Award, and Mark Hagland interviews the number-one team lead, Brian Patty, M.D., CMIO of HealthEast Health System.
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