May 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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As a part of our annual Healthcare Informatics 100 issue, where we feature our unique compilation of the top IT vendor companies in healthcare by revenue, we also profile three of the year’s Most Interesting Vendors from that list. With meaningful use and other healthcare reform drivers fueling the ever-changing IT landscape, what is clear to all of us on the HCI team is that there are many fascinating vendors right now doing innovative work. It is always a challenge to whittle the large list down to a few, and this year was no exception.
May 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement held a media briefing earlier this month to unveil a new book and to present to the healthcare press the work that numerous patient care organizations are involved in, to move healthcare towards a future of improved care, health, and costs.
April 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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To change the way children's hospitals perform comparative effectiveness research and generate evidence for researchers, Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) is in the process of collecting lab, microbiology, and radiology results for inpatient encounters to enhance its administrative and clinical database, known as the Pediatric Health Information System + (PHIS). To tackle the daunting task of normalizing and standardizing the disparate feeds from the six participating children’s hospitals, CHCA is using a terminology management solution to assist with this interoperability initiative. Ultimately, CHCA leaders see this development work expanding beyond the realm of pure research to supporting performance improvement.
June 7, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In May 2006, Vermont's state legislature passed the Health Care Affordability Act, which refocused the state’s Blueprint for Health program on prevention and management of chronic conditions through helping primary care providers operate their practices as patient-centered medical homes.
June 7, 2011 David Raths
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MedVirginia LLC, a provider-owned health information exchange organization, has reached a milestone in its work with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) and the Social Security Administration (SSA).
May 16, 2011 James L. Holly, M.D.
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Everyone who cares about the USA wants Americans to be healthier. Would we not therefore embrace a method of improving health which involves no cost; which actually creates tremendous savings in healthcare, and which can be instantly implemented without delay? Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and clinical Practice, has “the way.” His solution is to change the “diagnostic and treatment thresholds” for illness, thus making fewer people ill by definition.
January 31, 2011 John Degaspari
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James L. Holly, M.D. A dozen years before the term meaningful use entered the healthcare lexicon in relation to electronic health records,
November 28, 2010 Mark Hagland
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The Cambridge, Mass.-based New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) recently released an issue brief, “From Evidence to Practice: Making CER Findings Work for Providers and Patients,” which detailed the hurdles and policy choices facing leaders in comparative effectiveness research, in their efforts to widely disseminate comparative effectiveness research (CER) findings. Given the provisions in the federal healthcare reform legislation, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in March, that will establish the creation of a federal Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify research priorities and conduct research comparing the clinical effectiveness of medical treatments, NEHI's issue brief certainly provides a timely look at the challenges ahead in this dynamic area.
