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How Comorbidity Threatens American Healthcare

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 12/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Irv Lichtenwald, Medsphere Systems CEO

Comorbidity is not a word heard every day—not even in healthcare, where it applies. But researchers and physicians, assisted by IT-derived diagnostic data, have come to understand that comorbidity is essential to understanding and managing population health, especially among vulnerable populations challenged by mental illness and addiction.A patient with comorbidity has at least two chronic diseases at the same time that interact in such a way as to worsen the impact of each illness on the
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Is Journey Mapping the Future of Transforming the Patient Experience?

by Our Thought Leaders 12/19/2016 Leave a Comment

Is Journey Mapping the Future of Transforming the Patient Experience?

Editor's Note: Victor Morrison is Next IT Healthcare’s Chief Strategy Officer. He has over 22 years of pharmacy expertise. You can follow him on Twitter @VictorOMorrison At this year’s Next Edge Health Experience Summit, Riley Conrath and Shane McAllister of EffectiveUI gave a great talk titled “Designing for the Emotion of Healthcare.” EffectiveUI has written at length about journey mapping and persona development for healthcare clients, but it was particularly striking to hear their talk
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A Modern Industrial Revolution: Electronic Health Information Connectivity

by Our Thought Leaders 12/12/2016 Leave a Comment

A Modern Industrial Revolution: Electronic Health Information Connectivity

Editor's Note: Buff Colchagoff is the CEO of RosettaHealth, a cloud-based health messaging and exchange platform. Colchagoff has over 16 years of health IT experience with large projects, including building the VA’s PHR MyHealtheVet, as operations manager for the Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NwHIN) which grew into the Sequoia Project. The industrial revolution has shaped life as we know it today.  Historic inventors, explorers and entrepreneurs paved the way to economic and social
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What Does The Cures Act Mean for Mental Health Care? 5 Things to Know

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 12/09/2016 Leave a Comment

Behavioral Health Can We Balance Civil Liberties with Mental Health Treatment?

Remember that the two things you don’t want to watch being made are sausage and law. Then recall that while the process for both may be unappealing and seem incongruous, the product is not always so.  Take the 21st Century Cures Act, for example, which is a lengthy (996 pages) piece of legislation (summary here) that focuses primarily on health-related scientific research and medical devices. It also broadly outlines the terms for an upcoming drawdown of America’s strategic petroleum reserve,
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Cures Law Passed — Health IT Interoperability Will No Longer Be Voluntary

by Our Thought Leaders 12/06/2016 Leave a Comment

D'Arcy Guerin Gue

Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry  relations —  with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.The new 21st Century Cures Act is about to change healthcare IT, and most of the industry never saw it
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Revenue Cycle: 5 Tips to Improve Your Organization’s Clean-Claims Rate

by Our Thought Leaders 12/05/2016 1 Comment

Revenue Cycle: 5 Tips to Improve Your Organization's Clean-Claims Rate

Editor's Note: Glenn Krauss is the Regional Director of Enterprise Solutions at ZirMed, a provider of revenue cycle management, medical claims, electronic data interchange, clinical communication, health information & healthcare connectivity.At a time in healthcare when value is king, waste is inexcusable, every penny counts and losing millions and millions of dollars to denials is simply no longer an option for hospitals and health systems.By some estimates, as many as 20 percent of medical
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What Does The Recent Election Mean for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?

by Robert Rowley MD 11/29/2016 1 Comment

The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly? Granted, there were a number of people who predicted the outcome more accurately, but many of those who used data models to analyze the likely outcome are left now with head-scratching and postmortem analysis in order to improve their methods.In their book Superforecasting, The Art and Science of Prediction, authors Philip Telock and Dan
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Call to Action: Organizing for Patient Care

by Margalit Gur-Arie 11/28/2016 Leave a Comment

Increasing Patient Face Time by Decreasing Physician Screen Time

On November 8th America elected a President who ran on a promise to restore government of the people, by the people, for the people (among other things). However, we cannot expect such government to be given to us on a silver platter, no matter who resides in the White House. We must build it ourselves, by definition. Government of, by, and for the people requires the people to stand up and do more than just vote every four years, do more than author clever blogs, do more than compose brilliant
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Healthcare Ransomware: Why Providers Should Not Pay the Ransom

by Our Thought Leaders 11/21/2016 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Unveils New Cybersecurity Hub: 5 Things to Know

Editor's Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions.Healthcare is simply in the crosshairs of some really nefarious people. You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the comments on everything that has been happening in the sector. The daily headlines include such news as “Hospital declares State of Emergency after ransomware infection”; “Hospital pays ransom to get data back”; “Dangerous escalation in
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The Rise of Trump Care: 6 Ways Trump Could Impact Healthcare Reform

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 11/15/2016 Leave a Comment

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. On November 9th, 2016 the United States of America witnessed a major turnaround in the administration. Republican candidate Donald Trump is the 45th president-elect of the United States, leading with 279 electoral votes. Donald Trump plans to bring about numerous changes
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