September 10, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The Institute of Medicine’s new comprehensive report, “Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health care in America,” advocates a healthcare system of continuous performance improvement—and healthcare IT leaders will be at the center of the action
September 9, 2012 Mark Hagland
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In Michigan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has implemented and grown a patient-centered medical home initiative that is already the largest in the country, with over 3,000 physicians involved. What David Share, M.D. and his colleagues are learning has strong implications for PCMH development nationwide.
September 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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A committee impaneled by the Institute of Medicine has produced a report aimed at pushing the healthcare industry towards continuous performance improvement and continuous learning. And Paul Tang, M.D., speaks with HCI’s Mark Hagland about the implications for today’s healthcare leaders.
August 23, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Pilots under the Query Health project are testing two standards: the HQMF standard that expresses an e-measure in machine-readable electronic format; and a query envelope for the secure exchange of queries.
August 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
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An initiative led by a group of healthcare leaders in Michigan illustrates what’s possible when the smartest kinds of utilization management, physician education, clinical decision support, and utilization analytics elements are brought together in the same program.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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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 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Spectrum Health’s J. Michael Kramer, M.D. sees a world of opportunity in moving his western Michigan health system forward to fully leverage the benefits of the electronic health record to create the clinical transformation needed in today’s healthcare.
June 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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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
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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 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Last month, two New England Journal of Medicine op-ed columns discussed the challenges of resource utilization, and the inevitability of some sort of comparative effectiveness-based approach to healthcare cost management. What role will clinicians and informaticists play in building CDS support tools into EHRs to support utilization management?
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.
