Healthcare IT has a long way to go before it delivers truly transformative benefits to providers and patients across the healthcare continuum. However, the incremental steps that already have been taken should not be discounted. While a complete digital transformation in healthcare is going to take some time, creativity, and even a few missteps before we get it right, current health IT capabilities are adding value to care delivery.Take EHRs, for example. For all of their well-publicized
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3 ACOs to Implement eClinicalWorks Population Health Management Solution
Central Florida ACO, NEXT ACO of Nature Coast, and Space Coast ACO has selected eClinicalWorks Population Health Management for their combined 90 providers and more than 17,000 beneficiaries. The implementation will assist all three organizations in closing the gaps in the coordination of care, manage cost and utilization, and improve clinical quality outcomes.The eClinicalWorks Population Health Management solution provides the organizations with visibility into a patient’s care across all
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Providers: Do We Have To Define Population Health To Make It Useful?
Maybe the initial challenge of population health is deciding exactly what that phrase means.Well before it became a catchphrase in health IT, population health was the province of academics who devised predictably academic definitions like “… the aggregate health outcome of health-adjusted life expectancy (quantity and quality) of a group of individuals, in an economic framework that balances the relative marginal returns from the multiple determinants of health.”Originally created by and
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The Most Surprising Health Wearables Trend of Q2 2017?
One of the stories that is gaining traction in the health wearables space is the reality that sensors are becoming less expensive and increasingly commoditized. It’s no longer enough for health wearables makers to leverage better sensors to attract consumer interest. Instead, they must develop more holistic offerings with software that makes wearables smarter and more useful.This is one reason why wearables makers in the United States, India and other parts of the world are focusing increasingly
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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Without Interoperability, EHRs Are Too Expensive
Would you pay top dollar for anything—a car, phone, television, whatever—that promises truly transformational technology at some unspecified future date?I doubt you would. We generally buy products for what they offer now, not what the company says they will eventually do (vaporware, as IT calls it).And yet, so many hospitals pay multi-billions of dollars for healthcare IT systems that promise to integrate patient care … eventually. Why? Some argue the primary reason is a false market that was
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Why Social Determinants of Health Is The Future of Value-Based Care
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.Race, gender, socioeconomic status have been known to affect a person’s health, access to care, costs incurred, and the outcomes. The defining conditions of how we live, learn, work, and play not only influences our health but goes on to define and impact an entire
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Why Now Is The Time For Healthcare To Tap The Sharing Economy
Editor's Note: David Goldsmith is the Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health, a a mission-driven company connecting healthcare with the experience, skills and insights of patient leaders. WEGO Health identifies patient influencers through a proprietary process that includes combining millions of social media data points with our members own interaction and self-reported information.When Robin Chase co-founded Zipcar in 2000, she saw an opportunity to turn a “world of scarcity” into a world of
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Access Governance, Role-Based Access Control and HIPAA Compliance
Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. The ever growing impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is having a tremendous impact on healthcare
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Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA Compliant
Editor's Note: Brady Ranum is VP of Products and Strategy at Dizzion, a cloud delivered desktop and end user computing solutions provider. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing two major trends that are on a potentially dangerous collision course: the rise of telemedicine (and the corresponding increase in remote workers) and a spike in healthcare data breaches.As early as 2014, a telemedicine survey by Foley & Lardner found that an astonishing 90 percent of healthcare
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