Integration

Industry-First Interview: Are Healthcare Leaders Ready to Trust the Cloud? One New Study Says Yes

September 10, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The results of a new study, conducted by the Atlanta-based Porter Research and sponsored by Covisint, seem to indicate that healthcare and healthcare IT leaders are ready to turn to the cloud in order to support population health management and accountable care organization development

QSI Makes Health IT Interoperability-Based Acquisition

September 9, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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Quality Systems Inc. (QSI) and its subsidiary NextGen Healthcare have acquired Mirth Corporation, a health information technology vendor that specializes in interoperability, for an undisclosed amount the company recently announced.

Teladoc Acquires Telehealth Company, Expands Member Base

September 5, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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Teladoc, the Dallas-based telehealth provider, has announced the acquisition of Consult A Doctor, a Miami Beach, Fla.-based telehealth company. With this acquisition, individuals and employees of small- to medium-size businesses will now have access to Teladoc’s national network of U.S. board-certified, state-licensed physicians for consults.

ACO Development in New Jersey: One CMO's Learnings from First-Stage Efforts

September 3, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The seven acute-care-hospital, West Orange-based Barnabas Health, the largest health system in New Jersey, has been plunging headlong into accountable care development. And Anthony Slonim, M.D., the health systems vice president and CMO, has a lot to say regarding lessons learned so far in Barnabas Health's journey.

Optimizing EHR Implementation Through “Pre-Load Services”: Temple Physicians’ Experience

September 3, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Temple University Physicians, a 400-physician (salaried) academic faculty practice plan whose members are affiliated with Temple University Health System (TUHS), a four-hospital system in Philadelphia, has been moving forward on a number of fronts when it comes to EHR implementation. Frank Erdlen, the group’s CIO, has turned to the concept of pre-load services to make sure the implementation has gone well.

Health Information Exchange: Are We At An Inflection Point?

August 30, 2013     Mark Hagland
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As health information exchange evolves forward, industry leaders and experts debate what to do about some of the continuing obstacles to granular-level data exchange. Should federal officials intervene?

INDUSTRY EXCLUSIVE: CSC's New Report Looks at the Challenges Inherent in Leveraging Data for Accountable Care

August 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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A team of researchers in the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, a division of CSC, has published a new report that examines the challenges inherent in leveraging data and information for accountable or coordinated care. Lead author Jane Metzger speaks exclusively with HCI's Mark Hagland about the implications in the report's findings for healthcare IT leaders nationwide.

INDUSTRY-EXCLUSIVE: Steven Tolle on Merge Healthcare’s Current and Future Prospects

August 27, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Many in healthcare have been wondering what is going on at Merge Healthcare these days: the company has seen two high-profile departures in the space of less than one month. Chief product officer Steven Tolle spoke exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland on Aug. 27. Regarding all the changes taking place there.

HIT Voices: The Policy Challenges Facing Healthcare IT Leaders (Part 2)

August 22, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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Edward Marx, senior vice president and CIO of Texas Health Resources, talks with Healthcare Informatics about a variety of policy-related topics. He explains why he doesn't wish to see a delay of any kind to the Stage 2 implementation timeline. Part 2 of a three-part series.

Connectivity Revolution: Internet2 and its Bold Transformation Initiative

August 22, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Robert Vietzke, vice president, network services, of Internet2, a bold nationwide and indeed international initiative to lay the groundwork for a revolution in 21st-century computing, speaks exclusively with Healthcare Informatics regarding what he and his colleagues are doing that has the potential to transform healthcare across multiple dimensions.

With Big Data Comes Big-Time Data Governance: UPMC’s Forward Push

August 16, 2013     Mark Hagland and Rajiv Leventhal
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Last October, the 20-plus-hospital UPMC health system launched a massive big-data initiative, one that will cost the organization more than $100 million over the next five years. With leaders in that organization collaborating to leverage data, the organization this spring launched a formal Data Governance Program. Recently, Terri Mikol, director, data governance, at UPMC, spoke with Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland and Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal regarding the organization’s data governance initiative.

Aligning Incentives around Health Information Exchange

August 11, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Jody Cervenak, a Pittsburgh-based principal with the Denver-based Aspen Advisors consulting firm, has spent years in the healthcare IT space, including a long stint at the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh. Her perspective? Only when we can fully align incentives among stakeholders can we get to the next phase of HIE evolution.
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