Category: ACO
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The Growth Of Health Information Exchange The Jump From 10 To 20
As the healthcare community continues its transition away from fee-for-service toward outcome-driven accountable care approaches, so too has the way health information is shared (to support that transition) undergone an equally significant
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ECRI releases C-suite watchlist of top 10 hospital technology issues for 2013
Healthcare reform, accountable care organizations, readmissions and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today's healthcare leaders, according to a new report from ECRI Institute, a non-profit evidence-based practice center. Balancing costs and savings potential for new technologies also weighs heavily on their shoulders, the Feb.
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Development of a Rural Health Framework: Implications for Program Service Planning and Delivery
Purpose: To describe the development and application of an evidence-based Rural Health Framework to guide rural health program, policy and service planning.
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A few tips for those just getting started with content sharing and blogging
The popularity of blogs has been a given for years now but now that experienced professionals have tools like LinkedIn Groups, Google+, and even Facebook I often get asked for tips on what kind of content/information is “best” to be shared. I don’t know that I have any definitive answers but here are some suggestions…
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3 ways analytics can drive ACOs
It's an exciting era for healthcare. Aside from the propagation of new devices and technologies that one can spot in any hospital corridor, the very way healthcare will be delivered is under reconstruction. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) link practices under a common standard of payment and care.
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Secretary Sebelius Tells Doctors EHRs are Transforming Healthcare
On February 12, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, addressed the American Medical Association (AMA) National Advocacy Conference. Secretary Sebelius noted that care delivery is being transformed, as shown by the
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Leveraging digital signage for more than patient education and marketing – real service improvement
Earlier in the week I was in a waiting room for a physician visit and as I sat there for much longer than I wanted, I kept wondering “what patient number am I and how many people will be seen before me?” Given that we are in the trailing days of the year 2012 with…
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What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?
In Nashville on Friday, at the Vanderbilt Healthcare Conference, I gave a short talk on a panel focused on the question “What’s next for healthcare information technology innovation?” The talk focused on answering a couple of key questions: What does innovation in healthcare mean? Where are the major areas in healthcare where innovation is required?…
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‘Practical Data’, ‘Actionable Data’ and ‘Useful Data’ vs. ‘Big Data’ in healthcare and medical devices sector
Having recently spoken at about a half dozen conferences on the subject of big data in government and healthcare I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re focusing, at least in healthcare, on the wrong topic. When we’re dealing with individual patients, and even population health across multiple patients, the size and velocity of the data…