May 17, 2013 John DeGaspari
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During the afternoon breakout session at the HCI Executive Summit, Simon Jones, director, ACO IT and program strategy at Blue Shield of California, discussed the health plan’s experience in the ACO arena. Jones noted that healthcare is on an unsustainable path: there is no sustainable approach to reducing costs and improving care, and incentives do not promote a long-term, system-wide approach.
May 16, 2013 Mark Hagland
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In a wide-ranging panel discussion that brought together leaders from a variety of stakeholder groups across healthcare—hospital organizations, physician practices, integrated health systems, organized healthcare, and vendor organizations—industry luminaries agreed on May 16, in the opening panel discussion of the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, on the urgent need for cross-stakeholder collaboration.
May 16, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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This past year has been a roller-coaster ride for one of the industry’s best-known EHR vendors. Can new CEO Paul Black re-stabilize Allscripts in 2013 and beyond? The company is moving ahead with a focus on population health management, interoperability, and open architecture, in an effort to make sure the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
May 16, 2013 John DeGaspari
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In the opening plenary presentation of the HCI Executive Summit, Russ Branzell, CEO and president of CHIME said we have come along way in healthcare IT, illustrating his point with a mix of vintage and modern photographs. But we have a really, really long way to go, he said.
May 16, 2013 Healthcare Informatics staff
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On May 17, during the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, being held in San Francisco, Healthcare Informatics and AMDIS will honor the three recipients of this year’s Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award. For the third year in a row, the magazine and the association will recognize outstanding individuals whose advocacy and implementation work have advanced clinical informatics.
May 15, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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As Stage 2 of meaningful use continues to raise the bar in terms of how and when hospitals and physician groups must make patient data available, patient care organizations have been continuing to develop innovative methods to increase patients’ role in healthcare. To this end, the OpenNotes initiative is bringing patient engagement to a new level at Geisinger Health System .
May 15, 2013 John DeGaspari
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How does a smart company stay one step ahead of the trends transforming healthcare delivery? One can look to the Waltham, Mass.-based Alere, which has followed an acquisition strategy that has positioned it well, as healthcare transforms itself into a more results-driven, patient-focused care delivery system. Alere’s evolution has been marked by a combination of foresight and astute timing, which has allowed the company to combine its technologies onto a unified platform focused on better outcomes.
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 14, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Documentation in the operating room (OR) is a challenging task, and especially so for anesthesiologists. Records are dense, and when they are recorded on paper in shorthand during surgical procedures—a common practice even today—extraction of data from manually entered records can be very challenging and burdensome.
May 13, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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To control costs and improve results, many medical groups are evaluating a new generation of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions. After partnering with Atlanta-based vendor Ingenious Med, Emory Healthcare considers itself much better equipped to deal with its revenue cycle management. Karen England, CPC, Emory's revenue cycle administrator and assistant director of revenue cycle operations, recently spoke with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal about RCM at Emory.
May 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Chicago-based electronic health record (EHR) software provider, Allscripts continues to find itself in a slump, according to the results of its first full quarter earnings report since the company made significant leadership changes.
May 10, 2013 David Raths
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There’s a lot of talk about the potential for leveraging “big data” in healthcare, but so far, most of it remains just that: talk. But one Cleveland-based company is leading the way. Spun out of Cleveland Clinic in 2009, Explorys’ goal is to allow providers to meld data sets from multiple providers, payers and plans, care settings, and electronic medical systems to do various types of analysis.
