Evidence Based Medicine

One Thing I’m Thankful For: Clinical Decision Support (a True Thanksgiving Story)

November 22, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

Executive Interest in Informatics Seen Growing—But Not the Human and Financial Resources Needed

November 18, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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

Live from the AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium: Getting Crunchy on Co-Morbidity Issues

November 5, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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

Physician Group Touts Evidence-Based Performance Measures to Lower Healthcare Costs

October 31, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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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.

Optimizing Care Transitions: Where Do Predictive Analytics Tools Fit In?

October 13, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

Analytics and the Optimization of Blood Products Utilization: Premier Healthcare Alliance Shows the Way

October 10, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

Giving the Physicians the Evidence—On a Broad Scale

October 4, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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

Editor's Notes: What Thursday, September 6 Meant for Healthcare

October 2, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

UPMC Goes Big Into Big Data: Health System Investing $100 Million in a Five-Year Enterprise Analytics Initiative

September 30, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

Evidence-Based Order Sets: One Hospital’s Nuanced Experience

September 26, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.

Answer to: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records

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.

What They’re Learning about Analytics in Michigan—and Why the Future of Healthcare Depends on It

September 15, 2012     Mark Hagland
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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.
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