By Abhinav Shashank – The digitization of healthcare was a much-needed change brought after years of hard work and effort. One might wonder how to justify the expenditure of 10 billion dollars in a span of five years just on digitization!
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By Jeremy Guttman – Healthcare leaders who were once optimistic about value-based reimbursement models are becoming doubtful after seeing the performance of several programs. ACOs are achieving modest gains.
By Jeremy Guttman – Problems with handoffs are a big deal in clinical practice. Defective handoffs lead to patient harm, treatment delays, inappropriate treatment, and longer stays in the hospital.
By John Halamka MD – Would you buy an iPhone if the only apps that ran on it were written by Apple? Maybe, but the functionality would not be very diverse. The same can be said of EHRs. Athena, Cerner, Epic, Meditech, and self developed EHRs such as BIDMC’s webOMR are purpose-built transaction engines for capturing data.
By Sarianne Gruber – Today’s health care leaders are also the emissaries for bringing new technology, coupled with the demand for improving health delivery makes this a critical role. At this month’s NYC Healthcare Business Leaders forum, Laurel Pickering, President and CEO of the Northeast Business Group on Health, moderated a distinguished panel of Population Health solution experts.
Marrying Public Health and Primary Care Coordination By Brett Coughlin, Health Information Specialist, ONC Marrying public health and primary care coordination to improve population health using…
Recognizing the Power of Health IT Dr. Barry Chaiken, CMIO, Infor Follow him @bchaiken A successful transition to value-based reimbursement depends on getting people and…
Care Team Awareness: Who’s on First, What’s on Second? Renee S. Bessette, Vice President of Marketing & Operations LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/reneebessette Part 1 of 3 –…
IBM Collaboration will Help Control Infectious Outbreaks Last week IBM Research reported their collaboration in standardizing the exchange and use of public health information to…