How to Create Value While Improving Cost-Effectiveness in 2017
By Ted Chan – As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly dependent on technology, does your practice have the necessary tools to keep up?
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5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017
By Neil Smiley – Bundled payments and predictive analytics dominated the health information technology landscape for much of 2016. 2017 is shaping up to become the year that providers and payers will effectively leverage these new capabilities.
7 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017
By Morris Panner – 2017 is ushering in an era of unprecedented uncertainty surrounding federal government policy on healthcare and everything seems to be on the table. Value-based care, however, is here to stay, regardless of the current political landscape.
Five Ways Healthcare Data Analytics Can Help You
By Abhinav Shashank – A few days ago, the HHS Office of Inspector General released a report highlighting the 10 biggest management and performance challenges the healthcare industry is facing, and again, EHRs and health IT have made it to the list.
Who’s Made the List?
Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing.
Patient Engagement: A Digital Divide in Health Technology Accessibility
By Sarianne Gruber – Hallmarked as a solution to improve healthcare quality, cost and safety, studies are showing health technology is up against a “digital divide” when it comes to patient engagement.
HIMSS 10-Year Analysis: Female Health IT Workers Continue to Earn Less Than Male Peers
Female health information technology (IT) workers in the United States have been consistently paid less over the past 10 years than their male peers, with…
Do You Have the Vision to Use HealthIT Standards?
By Keith Boone – One of the challenges of meaningful use is in how it has diverted attention from other uses of standards that could have value. Use of the Unstructured Document template provides one such example.
Helping Providers and Patients Work Together with Health IT
By Thomas Mason MD – Playbooks Aren’t Just for Sports Teams: Clinicians and other health care providers practice medicine with the noble goal of improving patient outcomes. The day-to-day considerations in treating patients are complex, which is where technology can be leveraged to streamline and better inform the patient-provider interaction.