February 12, 2013 Joe Marion
blog
A lot is being written on Interoperability lately. Achieving it depends not only on vendor cooperation but also on facility insistence.
December 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Across the country, IT leaders of hospitals and health systems are recognizing the importance of integration in the new healthcare environment. This means investments into open architecture, HIE, and other technologies that are helping bring disparate systems, and disparate elements of the care continuum, in a unified, seamless environment.
November 14, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Leaders at the 972-bed Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, a non-profit healthcare system that encompasses two hospitals in New York City, were mandated with reducing their patients’ average lengths of stay (ALOS), despite their uncertainty on how to quantify that at a clinical level. Thanks to a hospital created “clock,” integrated into their EHR, the doctors were able to do just that.
October 25, 2012 David Raths
blog
The patient-centered medical home model has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the quality of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions. But are the health IT tools available today adequate to support the tasks of clinic care managers?
October 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
article
Spurred by a plethora of healthcare reform initiatives including meaningful use, health information exchanges (HIEs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), healthcare providers are considering bigger interoperability goals for their integration engine solutions that involve multiple technologies to affect seamless data flow within and between facilities, according to a report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. Interface engines are becoming the hub in which provider organizations are funneling myriad patient data systems in order to leverage existing patient information internally and externally.
October 8, 2012 David Raths
blog
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSHERA), a nonprofit organization set up to facilitate open source EHR development will hold its first annual summit meeting Oct. 17-18 in Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
Recently, I sat in on an interesting webinar, presented by the folks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a non-profit looking to address varying healthcare challenges across the country through grants and research. The webinar focused on one of its many initiatives, Project HealthDesign, and it showed me the role observational daily patient data can play in improving outcomes.
September 28, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
As the healthcare industry embraces an outcomes-based approach from a population health standpoint, a recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health has looked at the power of the payer-provider collaboration in terms of sharing and integrating clinical data. The authors of the report conclude that it is payers who hold the treasure trove of useful data, and when combined with providers’ clinical systems and expertise, that data can produce better results for patients.
September 14, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
Understanding system workflows is key to keeping Interoperability from becoming a four-letter word. Regardless of approach (singular database or multiple data sources), the goal should be the same: enabling patient information accessibility both within and between facilities.
