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How Mercy Health Is Improving Patient and Population Health

by Dr. Stephen Beck 09/08/2014 Leave a Comment

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Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) discusses how his organization has set the bar high when it comes to improving patient and population health.  Though “population health” means different things to different people, most definitions share a focus on improving the quality of care delivered across the community. That’s certainly in keeping with our mission at Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners), Ohio’s largest health system, which
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The Squeeze Is On For U.S. Hospitals

by Edmund Billings MD 09/03/2014 Leave a Comment

Vista and Epic: ICD-10 Delay to 2015_Congress Did the Right Thing

Lots of financial scrambling, but the numbers still don’t add up Is healthcare a business? In the United States, the question has been asked time and again but never satisfactorily answered. By virtue of publically financed healthcare systems, the rest of the developed world has decided, to a greater or lesser extent, that medicine and healthcare are not pure businesses—that citizens have a right to care, even when they can’t pay all associated costs. It’s starting to look like Americans
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The Rise of EMR Innovators and Explorers

by Dr. Donald Voltz 09/03/2014 3 Comments

The Rise of EMR Innovators and Explorers

Written by Dr. Donald Voltz There has been much discussion focusing on the need for EMR interoperability. The current state of EMR remedies for medical professionals is still frustratingly difficult. We are still being held back with the same old issues of lack of interoperability, leaving doctors to go on a scavenger hunt for often timely patient data. The worst part is there are 2.0 EMR innovators like Zoeticx and others out there who can break the data logjam and let the data
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Communication vs. Collaboration in Healthcare: What’s the Difference?

by Robert Rowley MD 08/18/2014 Leave a Comment

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In healthcare, there has been much talk and much activity within health IT circles about communicating across institutional barriers. We are now in an era where a majority of physicians, and most hospitals, have moved from paper record keeping to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). By-and-large, these EHRs are implemented within healthcare institutions (hospitals, large delivery systems, and independent doctors’ offices), and the medical data about patients is confined to the institution that
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Improving Patient Experience Is The Key to Reducing Referral Leakage

by Our Thought Leaders 08/10/2014 Leave a Comment

Improving Patient Experience Is The Key to Reducing Referral Leakage

  Jonathan Govette of ReferralMD explains why improving the patient experience is critical to reducing referral leakage and increasing revenue for practices and ACOs. 
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The Role of Claims Data in HealthIT: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

by Robert Rowley MD 08/04/2014 1 Comment

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As we move towards building a universal patient-centered data platform in health IT, several sources of data are useful. Data coming from transitions of care, clinical summary documents (C-CDAs) which can be shared between healthcare providers taking care of a patient, and claims data from insurance payers – these are all sources of data that can build the universal health record. With all the focus in interoperability discussions around sharing data found in clinical Electronic Health Records
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Can Public Health Data Mapping and Visualization Transform Healthcare Globally?

by Ben Heubl, Digital Health UK Correspondent (@benheubl) 07/31/2014 1 Comment

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Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Victorian Human Services Directory in Australia discusses how public health data mapping can improve global health.  HIT Consultant recently spoke with Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Human Services Directory (HSD), about the opportunities of the National Health Service Directory (NHSD) and what can be achieved by many different stakeholders, both public and private. In our discussion, Mr. Hawkins explains why working with open health data
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If Physicians Prefer the VA’s EHR, Why Is Adoption Outside the VA So Low?

by Edmund Billings MD 07/24/2014 12 Comments

If Physicians Prefer the VA's EHR, Why Is Adoption Outside the VA So Low?

If physicians overwhelming prefer the VA's EHR, then why is adoption outside the VA so low? Dr. Edmund billings shares his insights. Let’s start simply with the results. The questions will come later. In their 2014 EHR Report—a survey of 18,575 physicians on their EHR preferences—Medscape concludes that doctors like using the VA’s Computerized Provider Record System (CPRS), the core electronic record in the broader VistA platform, more than any other solution.
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6 Big Benefits of Applying Automation to Healthcare

by James Dias 07/21/2014 5 Comments

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James Dias, Founder & CEO at Wellbe shares six big benefits that can be realized by applying automation to healthcare for overall cost reduction and efficiency. Three out of four hospital and health systems CEOs cite overall cost reduction and efficiency as one of their top two financial priorities, HealthLeaders recently reported. With the healthcare industry continually looking to cut costs and waste and improve efficiency and throughput, automation of manual tasks can be an important
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Wearables: A Solution Searching For Problems?

by Our Thought Leaders 07/11/2014 Leave a Comment

Wearables_A Solution Searching For Problems

Wearables, devices used to sense data and process it into information, are generating quite the buzz in healthcare these days. But down the line, does that buzz come with a sting? In Wearable Tech News, Tony Rizzo reports wearable technology spending predictions of $50 billion by 2018. He also reports on a ground-breaking, glucose-sensing contact lens for diabetics that will be a “true solution for a very real medical problem that affects hundreds of millions of people.” By 2016,
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