November 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
What seems obvious, on both the macro and micro levels, is that physicians can no longer practice medicine effectively without strong, effective clinical decision support tools at the point of care. Case in point: a close friend’s holiday emergency room experience.
November 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Deloitte’s first-ever look at senior executive interest in and support for informatics development across all the major sectors of healthcare has uncovered both heightened interest and a lack of resource support as major issues facing informatics leaders
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Four medical informaticists present findings and learnings from their research and development work in the area of providing clinical decision support to physicians treating patients with co-morbidities
October 31, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The American College of Physicians (ACP), a Philadelphia-based physician member organization, is touting a series of various performance measurement recommendations to curb spending on, what it calls, unnecessary services. The measures are included within a policy paper from ACP in a recent issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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 10, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
On Oct. 9, Premier healthcare alliance senior executives and volunteer leaders held a press briefing to announce the results of both the Charlotte-based health alliance's broad comparative effectiveness analysis of blood utilization processes, and to describe the work of two Premier member hospital systems in optimizing processes in that key area.
October 4, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
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 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
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
article
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 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At Northwest Hospital in Seattle, optimizing the planning for the implementation of CPOE and for evidence-based order sets has taken several fascinating turns. Gregory Schroedl, M.D., the hospital’s chief medical officer, shares his perspectives on what’s worked well and why.
September 19, 2012 Pete Rivera
blog
Based on a WSJ Opinion piece EMR software is “is generally clunky, frustrating, user-unfriendly and inefficient.” Although I will not disagree with this “generalization,” I do take exception with the articles naïve view that Health IT systems have not improved patient health.
September 15, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
As David Share, M.D. and his colleagues at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan collaborate forward with local providers to master care management and utilization strategies, the criticality of leveraging analytics thoughtfully becomes ever-more-apparent. We’ll be discussing these issues in our upcoming Healthcare Informatics webinar on Sept. 25, and learning from the experiences of some of the most pioneering organizations nationwide.
