September 11, 2012 Pete Rivera
blog
You cannot make a blanket policy to say that the coding software will be used exclusively. This is like telling a pilot to trust their instruments, although the ground is getting closer and closer.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Presbyterian Health Services’ Melanie Van Amsterdam, M.D., talks about the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program that she and her clinician and administrative colleagues have created and are evolving forward in the Albuquerque area, a program whose patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness results have national implications for population health and care management initiatives health system-wide.
August 15, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
blog
In our post-ACA world, healthcare organizations large and small are on the gradual path toward forming accountable care organizations (ACO) to provide value-based care for patient populations. A small pilot at the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute and the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute is showing the possibilities for clinical registries to synthesize data from different sources into a common understandable format to track high-risk patients and manage patient populations for ACOs.
August 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At Baptist Healthcare System, Louisville, Ky., CIO Jackie Lucas is defying conventional wisdom, and is about to attest to meaningful use for five hospitals in her system, working with an emergency department IS separate from her core EHR. Her verdict? It’s simply a myth that it can’t be done.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, clinician and IT leaders have created a breakthrough in ensuring patient safety in the operating room, automating a key process for greater quality control
July 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The tragic outcome in a New York sepsis case involving a promising young 12-year-old ignites interest, and thousands of comments, in The New York Times.
July 3, 2012
news
M*Modal, a Franklin, Tenn.-based provider of clinical documentation services, has been acquired by which One Equity Partners, the private investment arm of JP Morgan Chase & Co. One Equity will acquire all of the outstanding shares of M*Modal for $14.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion.
June 27, 2012
news
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have reached an agreement with Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems to make the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) freely available as open-source content and software.
June 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
In a conversation with senior clinical executives of Premier health alliance member organizations earlier this month, one thing was incontestably clear: the leaders of the truly pioneering patient care organizations nationwide simply aren’t waiting for Washington to tell them what to do to remake healthcare.
June 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Senior medical executives from organizations that are members of the Premier health alliance gathered in Nashville earlier this month for the alliance’s Breakthroughs 2012 Conference, sat down for a roundtable discussion to describe and dissect some of the innovations they’re helping to lead in their organizations, innovations that could point the way to the future of healthcare.
June 10, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Medical informaticists at California’s Lucile Packard Children’s have created an industry-leading breakthrough on physician documentation within the EHR, based on thoughtful attentiveness to physician workflow, and the real information needs of doctors at the point of care and documentation.
June 8, 2012 John DeGaspari
article
Electronic communication is certainly changing the way physicians and patients interact, and if there is a single area where its impact is most evident, it is in telemedicine. This is worth paying attention to: in a report released last month, WinterGreen Research, Inc., a market research firm based in Lexington, Mass., forecast that the market for telemedicine devices and software will increase from $736 million in 2011 to $2.5 billion in 2018, implying a wide reach that will encompass a growing number of physicians and patients.
The question is what affect telemedicine will have on the quality of care and the relationship between physicians and patients. Alan Rosenthal, M.D., a board-certified internist who practices in Monterey, Calif., provides his perspective as a primary care physician.
