February 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
CIOs, CMIOs and other healthcare leaders have a real opportunity to help shape community-wide healthcare delivery performance improvement initiatives: just ask Jane Brock, M.D., of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, that state's QIO.
February 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Jane Brock, M.D., the chief medical officer of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, that state's Medicare quality improvement organization, discusses recent research-driven learnings around what makes for successful forays into improving care transitions-and the IT leveraging that will need to take place in communities nationwide.
January 30, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at the American Health Quality Association recently showcased the release of an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that documented an impressive decline in avoidable hospitalizations and readmissions among Medicare patients in communities in which Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) have coordinated interventions that engaged whole communities in care improvement.
January 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, the Health Research Institute at PriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting firm released a new report, “Top health industry issues of 2013: Picking up the pace on health reform.” PWC’s John Edwards, director of the consulting firm’s healthcare advisory division, shares his perspectives on the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT leaders right now. Here’s a hint: think data and information systems, not IT per se.
January 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
Telehealth activity is growing apace, according to a new report from InMedica, a division of IMS Research; in fact, the researchers at InMedica predict that the global telehealth business will grow by 55 percent in 2013
December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
blog
Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
November 24, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Last year, in an effort to improve the effectiveness of the organization’s OR operations, leaders at GHS began an initiative to install patient tracking systems in the health system’s perioperative areas, beginning with Greenville Memorial Hospital. Work has proceeded apace, and results from the 2011 go-live at Greenville Memorial have been encouraging.
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 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The ONC's deputy national coordinator for programs and policy repeatedly emphasized the links between the requirements under the meaningful use program and the federal government’s broader goals for healthcare reform and population health.
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.
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
October 4, 2012
news
A simulation model-based analysis of the effects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program on Medicare costs for patients aged 65 to 75 with type 2 diabetes finds very minimal cost savings, and its authors conclude that only with the strategic application of information technology and the use of care coordination, can those cost savings be increased in the future