Category: Analytics

Top News Healthcare billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong launches health IT company NantHealth at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, which will offer the “intelligent Clinical Operating System” (iCOS) that will integrate information from molecular science, computer science, and big data to deliver solutions for population health management, cancer care coordination, transition management, and wellness. The company also announced…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to feel pressure over “upcoding” and “cloning” that’s enabled by EHRs, after an HHS watchdog agency issued a report saying CMS and its contractors should do more to prevent fraud. Also, Congress continues to work on a permanent fix for the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula,…

Surescripts, the Arlington, Va.-based operator of a national clinical electronic network that facilitates health information exchange, has added a number of electronic health record (EHR) software vendors to its network, the company announced this week. Surescripts, the Arlington, Va.-based operator of a national clinical electronic network that facilitates health information exchange, has added a number…

Infection control via improved handwashing efforts is the impetus for a recently announced pilot project involving big data and wireless sensors at Columbus, Ohio-based OhioHealth. read more …read more

“Digital Health” is often centered on EHRs and Meaningful Use to the detriment of many other technologies that can help improve patient satisfaction. To help make sure that we don’t forget how useful modern technologies are to actually getting paid for medical services, I invited Jay Fulkerson, president and CEO of Health Payment Systems (HPS),…

When he unveils his new budget plan Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown will propose billions of dollars in new spending on schools, health care, social services and environmental programs as California reaps the benefits of an economic turnaround. … The proposed budget includes $670 million more for Medi-Cal, the state’s public health care program, which is…

Meaningful use — it’s not just for healthcare providers anymore. Patients are paying attention to what meaningful use of electronic health data entails and why it’s important; they’re understanding, and now they want it. The federal government’s ambitious plan to drive health IT adoption worked its way into the conversation Jan. 7 at the Digital…

0 NYC Macroscope is a population health surveillance system that uses EHRs to track conditions managed by primary care practices that are important to public health. . It is another reminder of the potential of connected EHRs to create a learning health system. Healthcare Informatics has written several articles highlighting the valuable work of the…

The market for self-care medical devices is set to hit $16.8 billion by 2019, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. According to Transparency’s analysis, the market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7 percent from 2013 to 2019. read more …read more

As more and more physicians’ offices and other providers begin to take the first step in setting up a patient portal, I thought it would be interesting to tell our story about how our office implemented and uses a portal. The lessons we learned may be helpful for you as Meaningful Use Stage 2 deadlines…