April 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Using social media to go the extra step and appeal to consumers, while tapping into their concerns, is the kind of phenomenon that’s starting to occur in healthcare, and one hopes will become even more frequent as providers and payers implement social media business strategies. Many industry observers say social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and independent patient communities like Patients Like Me, can improve patient experiences and drive engagement for providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies.
April 23, 2012
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Thomson Reuters, a New York-based provider of information systems for numerous industries, including hospitals and healthcare providers, is selling its healthcare business to New York-based Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash. The sale is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the next few months. The sale is not subject to any financing condition. Veritas has obtained debt financing commitments for the transaction.
April 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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An exclusive interview with PwC's John Edwards on the research firm's latest study on social media usage in healthcare. The study, “Social media ‘likes’ healthcare: From marketing to social business,” looks at the opportunities that exist for providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies in using social media platforms in healthcare, amid the growth of its presence in the industry.
April 9, 2012
blog
.....only clinician involvement can orchestrates the process by which clinicians are “integrated” in the process of delivery of quality-centered care. An obstructionist clinician team can derail an otherwise successful HIT adoption project and/or your EHR application implementation.
April 4, 2012
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I don’t understand why application vendors place little importance on reporting requirements. I get the fact that customers like to customize their reports, but why not make that an inherent feature? Maybe that is why the market is constantly creating so many 3rd party Business Intelligence (BI) vendors. But what about Clinical Intelligence (CI) requirements?
March 28, 2012 John DeGaspari
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Healthcare data security spending is growing rapidly, and is expected to reach $40 billion in 2012—a 22-percent increase from 2011. The higher cost of maintaining data centers has led healthcare organizations to consider lower cost cities in which to locate these operations, according to a recently released report by The Boyd Company, Inc., Princeton, N.J. The study estimates that data security spending will top $70 billion by 2015.
March 28, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health, also recipient of the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, discusses how leaders in the industry are using clinical data analytics for performance improvement. This podcast gives a flavor of the panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," Rick will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando. He will be joined on the panel by colleagues Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital; Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and CIO of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center; and Patricia Skarulis, vice president, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
March 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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To solve the perennial challenge of reporting clinical quality measures to myriad quality programs, more healthcare providers are using quality data warehouses to streamline their quality reporting efforts. It was at a HIT Policy Committee Meaningful Use Workgroup meeting last fall, where CIOs voiced this barrier, saying that one of the most valuable things the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could do was to harmonize all the programs to which providers must report quality measures.
February 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide move forward on a host of pressing mandates, driven by healthcare reform and the meaningful use process, as well as a gradually awakening healthcare consumer world, more and more of them are coming upon a very basic truth: change initiatives must be strongly organized to get healthcare where it needs to go. Indeed, the leaders of pioneering U.S. patient care organizations began more than a decade ago to learn and adopt formal performance improvement methodologies—including Lean Management, Six Sigma, the Toyota Production System (TPS), and others—either individually, or more often, in combination—in order to turbo-charge change.
February 22, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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I really enjoyed the lively discussion from various healthcare CIOs on the effectiveness of managing risk for financial purposes this week at the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas during a breakfast hosted by McKesson (San Francisco, Calif.). What mostly interested me was when the panel of four talked a great bit about how their organizations were using analytics to reduce costs, agreeing it plays an integral part in the shifting healthcare model with providers becoming accountable care organizations.
January 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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If you want to know what the future of healthcare in America looks like, a good person to consult would be Jesse Singer, D.O., M.P.H., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDH). Singer, an assistant commissioner who heads up the Primary Care Information Project in the NYCDH’s Division of Health Care Access and Improvement, has been leading an extraordinary population health management initiative, one whose ultimate goals look a lot like what many industry experts believe the healthcare delivery system needs to look more like
January 13, 2012
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Humedica, a Boston, Mass.-based clinical analytics company, announced the launch of a new predictive analytic model that will help providers identify patients at high-risk for a Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) hospitalization. This model will aim to help providers look for high-risk CHF patients before they have been hospitalized. It could help reduce hospital admissions among the sickest, most costly patients in America says Humedica.
