Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics
Today I spoke in a webinar entitled “Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics”. During this presentation I covered a number of topics around business intelligence in healthcare and...
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Healthcare Business Intelligence – Success vs. Biting off More than You Can Chew
The healthcare industry is ecstatic about the opportunity to apply business intelligence (BI) to improve healthcare quality, cost and outcomes. Providers are using BI to address process issues that...
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Are Academic Medical Centers the next big Clinical Trial players?
One thing I have been wondering about recently is to what extent consulting firms are exploring the clinical trial sector of academic medical centers (AMCs). While conducting an assessment of just one...
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Member-Centric Care: Have we over turned every rock?
In my previous posts about the Member-Centric Care team, I posed several questions and gave my opinions to support them. Here is a review of what was discussed, as well as new thoughts: Have we over...
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ACO – A Brave New Enterprise: Are you ready?
Racing towards an ACO and Population Management this year is a huge challenge. A new enterprise platform is a must for an ACO to coordinate the changing of Provider and Payer processes and behavior...
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ICD-10 Revenue Neutrality Will Drive Collaborative Testing
I was reading my collegue Mike Berard’s blog, on ICD-10 Revenue Neutrality: A Strategic Approach. We have discussed the importance of testing before production between Payer and Provider (e.g.,...
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Member-centric Care: Open source to the rescue?
A must read from my colleague, Martin Sizemore, entitled, “Is it time for open source in healthcare?” Wow! This Business/Process with system enablement person, me, can understand this architecture...
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Member-centric Care: Not without Business & Architectural RoadMap
If I had a dollar every time an Enterprise Architect said, “I have a Road Map,” and handed me the future state IT architecture (which is 5 years out) and proceeded to verbalize current to future IT...
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EHRs + Clinical Decision Support = Better Healthcare
We all know that the healthcare delivery system in the United States is decentralized. Patient information is in multiple sources and often times not even accurate or complete. This fragmented system...
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CDS Tools: Should we pile them on?
A 2008 study on CDS (clinical decision support) tools found that while the benefits of CDS technologies are widely understood and accepted by providers, there is still a lack of proactivity in its...
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5 Reasons Big Data Improves Personalization of Medicine
I enjoyed an article today in IT Business Edge about the ways that Big Data is improving outcomes. We hear that all the time, right? But what does it really mean? Why does more (and better) patient...
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A healthcare treasure map leading to a single data warehouse
I’ve waited 20 years for my Treasure Map. Yes, a map with hidden passages, remote islands and an “X” to mark the spot. As kids, some of us hunted in our yards looking for buried treasures. Kids...
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