Category: Analytics

While neither colocation of team members nor an electronic health record is a prerequisite for a successful integrated care team, explains Dr. Jan Berger, chief medical officer of Silverlink Communications Inc., there are four essential factors that contribute to the confidence and comfort levels of both patients and team members. Dr. Berger will share practical…

Electronic health records help solve some problems, but they aren’t the panacea needed to clear up illegible chart notes sent to pharmacies. By Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP …read more    

During this Webinar, you’ll learn: The value of nurse informaticists in driving compliance of care plans Strategies to gain consensus on care plans and evidence-based CDS The best ways to influence strategic initiatives like Meaningful Use Stage 2 Participants include: Romina Hipolito Elias, assistant nurse manager of the mother-baby unit, White Plains Hospital Clarissa Tojos,…

AMN Healthcare Acquires Avantas AMN Healthcare, a healthcare-focused staffing firm, acquires Avantas, which builds data analytics tools for optimizing staffing and scheduling. Medicine Is About to Get Personal TIME reports on direct-primary care provider Qliance Health, and their efforts to provide direct to consumer primary care for a flat monthly fee, and without involving insurance.…

I’m often asked by hedge funds, investors, and private equity firms to evaluate start ups based on their management savvy, product maturity, and business models. I’ve been on several calls with startups in 2014 in which the grammar was all “present future tense” “We will have a product that does…” My response to the investors…

HIMSS Analytics recognized 11 of  Rockford Health System sites with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. The award represents Rockford Health’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a…

0 The role of some chief medical information officers is becoming increasingly strategic. One of the symbols of that transition is a new title popping up for system-wide CMIOs: chief health information officer. In the past few weeks I have had the chance to interview several chief medical information officers about how their positions are…

Top News Healthcare workforce services vendor AMN Healthcare acquires Avantas, saying its clients need staffing forecasting analytics. Reader Comments From Sonoran Dog: “Re: Maricopa Integrated Health System. Veiled rumors from administration suggest it will have to shut down in July 2015 due to lack of funds after receiving a large bond in the November elections.…

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Physicians are not as confident about Meaningful Use and not as ready or willing to change their work habits in order to meet the requirements as other clinicians, which can adversely affect the success of electronic health record implementation in ambulatory care settings, according to a new study in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.…