Category: “Healthcare IT”
- Informatics Interoperability Not Prioritized by Vendors
- 7 skills needed to be competitive in the health IT job market
- CIOs’ top investment priority
This is where IT sales and dollars will be found. The survey of 70 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives members by data solutions vendor Health Catalyst found 54 percent rate data analytics as their highest IT priority. Other top priorities included population health initiatives, ICD-10, accountable care initiatives and consolidation-related IT investments.
- A third of physician practices want a new EMR
- Info exchanges, electronic records: What do physicians want?
- Chuck Lauer: EHRs seem like more of a problem than a solution
"It's clear that at a crucial time for the industry — which is faced with declining reimbursement, consumer-driven care, a shift toward value and meaningful use penalties — information technology has become more of a problem than a solution. " Please say it ain't so: IT vendors charging exhortation rates for support, service and upgrades? Once they got ya they really got ya. EHRs may even be harming patients. Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Healthcare speaks out.
- 10 things to know about Cerner’s acquisition of Siemens Health Services
- 25 things to know about hospitals, health systems’ investments in IT
- Blue Shield of California, Anthem Blue Cross to create massive HIE
- McKesson revenues exceed expectations
- Healthcare Continues to Grow with Outsourcing, IT especially
- 25 years of health IT: 30 findings on changing perspectives
- Physicians feel EMRs ‘waste’ too much time, study finds
- EHRs: 8 hidden legal dangers
- EHR Stage 2 Criteria Remains Challenging For Most Healthcare Providers
2014 marks an important transition: For many hospitals, penalties will be assessed in fiscal year 2015 for failing to meet federal meaningful-use criteria by the end of fiscal year 2014.
- Whitepaper: 2014 Electronic Health Record, status and challenges from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The HIE Phenomena – is it possible this is a black hole?
- 5 statistics on EHR adoption in the U.S.
- 25 things to know about hospitals, health systems’ investments in IT
- 10 Most-Used EHRs Among Physicians
- 11 recent data breaches
- Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano resigns
Kaiser Permanente CIO Philip Fasano wrote an excellent book on Healthcare IT - a must read to learn more about both IT in the health care space and Kaiser. Mr. Fasano's move to the largest health insurer is a significant tell for our business, notably the increased reliance on big data as well as the alignment of insurance companies and care providers.
- 5 things to know about the global HIE market
- Was the feds’ $26B investment in health IT worth it?
- Physician office and patient use is a big gap in EHR adoption
- EHRs: 50 things to know
- Information Technology – cost reduction expectations vs. results
Nearly a third of hospital executives expect clinical information technology to have the biggest impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes – ahead of financial performance, clinical operations and patient engagement. Healthcare decision makers expect cost reductions as high as 15%. “Despite this optimism about the benefits, only 19 percent of those surveyed said their organizations are already delivering results based on their information management capabilities. Nearly 28 percent said they are currently implementing the capabilities, while 23 percent are in the planning stages. About 8 percent said they do not have a plan.”
- When to replace EHRs: 4 Considerations
- Leveraging HIT solutions for leaner healthcare
- EHR – a new source of malpractice losses?
