Drug costs now account for about 20% of all healthcare expenditures.
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Putting Interoperability on FHIR
This lack of interoperability leads to incorrect diagnoses, ineffective therapeutic plans, and unnecessary and costly duplicate testing.
Continue readingPredicting the Future: What to Look for in 2016
The role of a prognosticator is to accurately predict the future. We will see how well I have done when December rolls around.
Continue readingHow to Keep Score
Purchasing health information technology is obviously a risky and more difficult decision than choosing a bottle of red wine for dinner.
Continue readingGood Jobs or Bad Jobs
With great risk, many organizations are choosing a “bad jobs” strategy to address labor costs. Rather than retain experienced staff at higher wages, organizations take steps to encourage the departure of high-paid, experienced nurses to be replaced with less expensive and skilled substitutes.
Continue readingWorking Collaboratively to Enhance the Patient Experience
Delivering patient-centered care requires all professional involved in the care delivery to change what they do and how they do it.
Continue readingLiving and Working in Two Worlds
“It’s human nature to initially place “new” technologies into old behaviors since we have no other frame of reference.”
Continue readingPutting the Patient in CRM
Linking a care delivery episode to a patient’s perception of delivered services offers a view of how successfully an organization is satisfying the needs of patients.
Continue readingAccurately Predicting the Future
While healthcare information technology bombards clinicians with ever increasing patient data, it generally fails to offer clinicians tools and solutions that help them utilize this data effectively.
Continue readingJoin the Fight to Defeat Cancer – 2015
Our 2015 is off to a good start. Helen, Davina, Art, Lynne, Mike, and Suzanne are doing well, Things are stabilizing while the medical community marches on discovering precision medicine approaches to cancer. Although we …
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From Snow to Achuff: Using Analytics to Drive Clinical Change
John Snow, the English physician whose work arguably helped to halt an 1854 London cholera epidemic, is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology. Drawing on his knowledge of statistics, Snow decided to plot …
Continue readingEnterprise Analytics: Data, Insight, Process Change, Repeat
In 1966, Avedis Donabedian proposed a conceptual model for examining health services and evaluating quality of care. The Donabedian model includes three pillars: structure, process, and outcomes. As organizations strive to excel in healthcare’s world …
Continue readingDigitally Driven: Link Technology to Process Change
There are essentially two types of dashboards: point analytics dashboards and surveillance dashboards. Point analytics dashboards, sometimes described as ad-hoc analytics reports, focus on examining data to identify the potential cause of an unwanted outcome. …
Continue readingAI: Augmented Intelligence or Electric Sheep?
Visionary Elon Musk fears it. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking worried about it. Microsoft’s Bill Gates embraces it. Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick wrote about androids having the capacity to dream because of it. At HIMSS 2019, everyone talked about it.
Continue readingBelieving is Seeing
Data collection and its use surrounds us. Our mobile phones trace where we live, work, buy our groceries, and visit friends. Today’s trip to some online shopping sites shows me ads for puppies (my children …
Continue readingA Health IT Soothsayer
One of the best parts about predicting the future is how rarely the soothsayer is held accountable. The famous Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, is popularly credited with predicting the rise of Hitler …
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