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CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends

by Fred Pennic 01/26/2021 Leave a Comment

CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends

What You Should Know: - New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others. - A total of 67% of provider organizations reported they often or nearly always had access to needed records in 2020, up from 28% in 2017. Providers noted improvements in functionality and usability for tasks like locating and viewing records.  Both providers and the companies that produce the hardware and software needed
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Report: How COVID-19 is a Blue Moon Moment for Mental Health Technology

by Fred Pennic 04/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Report: How COVID-19 is a Blue Moon Moment for Mental Health Technology

What You Should Know: - Oxford VR publishes a new position paper ‘The Big Reset: Why COVID-19 presents a blue moon moment for mental health technology.’ - The white paper highlights how the coronavirus crisis has been a greater catalyst for the implementation of telecare in practice, than two decades of many brilliant, but many failed attempts too. Oxford VR, a provider of evidence-based automated VR therapy has published a new position paper ‘The Big Reset:
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020

by Fred Pennic 12/31/2019 Leave a Comment

Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020. Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon “Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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Inaccurate Provider Directories Costs Physician Practices $2.76B Annually

by Jasmine Pennic 11/15/2019 Leave a Comment

Report: Maintaining Provider Directories Costs Physician Practices $2.76B Annually

- Providers spend $2.76 billion each year on provider directory maintenance, a new survey by CAQH found. - For individual practices, this intensive process costs $998.84 per month--the equivalent of one staff day per week. That is time and money that most providers can't afford to waste.- CAQH surveyed 1,240 physician practices last month and just released "TheHidden Causes of Inaccurate Provider Directories"-- a new white paper that details the burdens the survey uncovered and what the industry
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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Models to Predict the Future Cost of Care

by Fred Pennic 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Models to Predict the Future Cost of Care

Traditionally, providers and health systems have relied on claims-based risk models, such as the CMS-HCC, ACG, and DxCG, which were built to forecast the risk of populations, but not at an individual level. While these models give a fairly good estimation of the risk of the population, they exhibit unsatisfactory estimation if used to predict the risk at an individual level.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company, has taken a major step towards revolutionizing the way we identify
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5 Opportunities to Increase Electronic Exchange of Medical Documentation

by Fred Pennic 05/06/2019 Leave a Comment

5 Opportunities to Increase Electronic Exchange of Medical Documentation

Today, 84 percent of “attachments” sharing medical information between providers and health plans are exchanged through mail or fax, resulting in administrative inefficiency and delays in patient care, according to a new white paper released by CAQH CORE. The white paper, “CAQH CORE Report on Attachments: A Bridge to a Fully Automated Future to Share Medical Documentation“ highlights challenges associated with the exchange of medical information and supplemental documentation used for healthcare
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Where’s the Evidence? Barriers to Analyzing Digital Health’s Impact

by Meridith Peratikos, Director of Enterprise Research, axialHealthcare 04/08/2019 Leave a Comment

Where’s the Evidence? Barriers to Analyzing Digital Health’s Impact

The digital health industry continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. In 2018, venture funding for digital health companies approached a record $8.1B in funding, according to Rock Health. These companies are striving to address important healthcare issues by developing products and service offerings in various categories like genome sequencing, analytics, telemedicine, mobile apps, and population health management tools—all with the promise of increased insights and patient engagement, and
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Telemedicine: A Potential Remedy to Rural Healthcare Ills?

by Mary Tolan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders 04/03/2019 Leave a Comment

Volume to Value: The Transformation Poised to Revolutionize Medicine

Mary Tolan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders The symptoms are innocuous enough at first. They begin with simple fatigue; readily explainable by a day spent working under the hot sun. The thirst sets in next, then the persistent hunger. The farmer brushes his symptoms off as simple work-caused exhaustion, and rationalizes that anyone would be tired, hungry, and thirsty after a long day in the field - he's getting older, after all. He thinks little of it until his
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup Mint Health Unveils White Paper for Vidamint Tokens

by HITC Staff 12/20/2017 Leave a Comment

MintHealth Blockchain

MintHealth, a global decentralized health platform with a portable, secure, and self-sovereign personal health record (PHR) built on blockchain technology and designed to drive healthy patient behavior through the Vidamint™ token. MintHealth announces the immediate availability of the associated white paper behind a planned Vidamint (VIDA) token sale in Q1 of 2018. The company also announces the addition of Wyche “Tee” Green, III, founder and director of Greenway Health™, to the MintHealth Board
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White Paper: How to Achieve an ROI for Healthcare BI

by Fred Pennic 01/06/2012 Leave a Comment

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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