Category: Analytics

GE Healthcare To Spend $2 Billion On Data Analytics And Other Tools GE Healthcare has announced that over the next five years, it will spend $2 billion creating data analytics and patient population tools that will enable hospitals to effectively shift to a performance-based payment system. Mostashari: Slow but steady interoperability progress National coordinator for…

As of Q1 2013, just 7.3% of more than 8,600 hospitals tracked by HIMSS Analytics* had reached Stage 6 and beyond on its Electronic Medical Record Adoption ModelSM (EMRAMSM). (*includes HIMSS Analytics US, Europe and Asia Pacific) and this number stand at 2.4% for Asia Pacific. …read more Source: HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific honors Apollo…

Previously I wrote about Frameworks for IT Management, including the Capability Maturity Model. Recently, I collaborated with Intel Corporation, HIMSS Analytics and Innovation Value Institute to evaluate the BIDMC IS organization and better understand our strengths and weaknesses. Here’s an overview of the process The report evaluated our ability to manage IT like business, manage…

The big news that had to be covered today was the announcement by the EHR Association about the EHR Developer Code of Conduct. The core topics of the EHR Developer Code of Conduct are great: General business practices Patient safety Interoperability and data portability Clinical and billing documentation Privacy and security Patient engagement Certainly there…

Link: For more information, visit the post about Regina’s Dark Willow and 73 Cents I met Regina Holliday at a healthcare conference last year. Her artistic gift was known long before that time and continues to tell the stories of the infirm and those who are terminally ill. She now engages with a group of artists to…

Three pillars–analytics, care improvement and patient engagement–are key to population health management, health IT leaders say. read more …read more Source: The three pillars of population health–and how they fit together

Healthcare technology has its own extensive security problems while the industry starts to understand the value of big data, and experts offered their views on a panel at the Health Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. this week. read more …read more Source: Health leaders: Increased data use can improve the status quo in patient care

Federal health experts have recommended changing safety restrictions on former blockbuster diabetes pill Avandia, in light of a new analysis suggesting that the drug may not increase the risk of heart attack as previously believed. …read more Source: FDA panel wants changes to Avandia safety measures

A new report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research indicates that when it comes to usability for ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) systems, athenahealth (Watertown, Mass.) and Epic Systems (Verona, Wisc.) are the industry’s cream of the crop. The report’s authors found that despite the fact they serve different client types, the two vendors rated…

Big data is an enigma when it comes to healthcare, as described by a panel on Wednesday at the third annual Health Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by Patient Privacy Rights. read more …read more Source: Panel: Big data's role in healthcare remains unclear