The following guest case study is written by By Jeff Bills, VP of Information Technology at Solutions Healthcare Management
Background
Solutions Healthcare provides IT operations for medical offices and clinics. Our firm now serves 600 physicians across eight states with services including billing, collections, medical records management, digital imaging, VDI, and VOIP. As a service business, we compete by delivering services that continuously exceed our customers’ expectations while
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White Paper: How to Achieve an ROI for Healthcare BI
White paper written by Jim B-Reay, Aspen Advisors
Abstract: As hospitals make significant investments in electronic medical record (EMR) technology, along with related updates to hospital billing, materials management, costing, and quality systems, they typically find that the promised analytics and reporting are not adequate. To tie together data from these disparate systems and even to optimize access to data within an integrated system, a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is
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Video: What Will Healthcare Look Like in 2017?
Healthcare IT News recently saw down with healthcare decision makers Michael Manning, MD Medical Director, Murphy Medical Center, Greg Wolverton CIO ARcare, and James L Holly, MD CEO, Southwest Texas Medical Associates to share their insight on what they hope the healthcare system will look like in 2017.
Hopefully by 2017, there will be more interopoerability in all aspects of healthcare delivery and we have made progress on creating a more patient centered
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Webinar: 3M ICD-10 Imperatives for Education and Code Translation
The following recorded webinar will provide insight into 3M's Translation Management tool and ICD-10 training program. The first 30 minutes of the webinar reviews 3M's Translation Management tool with the following agenda:
The second half of the 60 minute webinar provides an in-depth look at 3M's ICD-10 training program. The webinar helps answer the question of how ICD-10 training can help healthcare organizations understand what you don't know:
Some of the highlights from the 3M
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Video: Utah & Massachusetts on Healthcare Exchanges
In this exclusive podcast, recorded by Glen Shor of the Massachusetts Exchange and Norm Thurston of the Utah Exchange, they shed light on the systems for the only two states which currently have working health exchanges.
For more information of the Health Insurance Exchange Congress, visit the website here:
http://bit.ly/vS9CTA
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Infographic:The ACO Prescription Cure or Disease?
infographic explores whether ACOs are beneficial to the patient and the tax payer in the long run.
2011 has been a busy year for ACOs dominating the industry with the announcements of the ACO final rule, Medicare Shared Savings Program, NCQA Accountable Care Organization Accrediation program, and the 32 health systems selected for the CMS ACO Pioneer Program. Medicare can potentially save as much as $960 million dollars over three years through Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). With
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Guest Post: 3 Key Takeaways from 2011 mHealth Summit
The following is a guest post written by Charles Huang discussing his 3 key takeaways from attending this year's mHealth Summit that was held in Washingon D.C. earlier this month that was recently posted on his blog:
At the beginning of December, the 2011 mHealth conference took place in Washington DC. For conference attendees, it was a chance to be lost amongst thousands of others in the cavernous Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center (sans WiFi or conference supplied beverages,
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans.
Results
Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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Infographic: How Important is Protecting Patient Privacy?
Infographic highlighting the importance of protecting patient privacy
Patient privacy continues to make headlines in the news signifying an epidemic in security breaches in healthcare organizations increasing over 32%in the past year costing an estimated 6.5 billion annually according to a recent study by Ponemon Institute. On Wednesday, a class action suit has been filed seeking as much as 16 million in damages for a data security breach involving the electronic medical records of 16,000
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Guest Article: Six Strategies to Become A More Efficient Project Manager
This guest post is provided by A.G. Wu, Engagement Leader at Cerner Corporation on six strategies to become a more efficient project manager:
Be a mentor. Promote independence in those around you. I hold regular meetings with clients (not just the PM) to ensure a full understanding of the WHY’s behind everything our project methodology entails. Areas benefited include MethodM access, meeting and event preparations, conversion readiness reviews, RDDS, and scope creep. All of which save time
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