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PHM: We have the will, but do we have the way?
There is a strong interest in the healthcare providers tackling population health management, especially as it relates to efforts to build Accountable Care Organizations. The idea of identifying a...
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Finding a real patient-centric view
In healthcare consulting, we discuss the patient-centric view frequently. We want our EMRs, our clinical data repositories, and business processes to be patient-centric and focused on a complete view...
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Microsoft steps up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud
Prior to HIMSS 2011, I blogged about the 3 reasons for using a Managed Private Cloud for Interoperability. In that blog, I noted that in healthcare circles, cloud computing conjures up fears for...
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Big Data to attack Healthcare Fraud
According to a U.S. Senate Panel on Healthcare, healthcare fraud and abuse costs as much as $100 billion a year, or 10 percent of the $1 trillion spent on healthcare. In addition, these fraud costs...
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Can Secure Email speed Healthcare Integration and Lower Costs?
Sometimes an idea seems too simple to work in order to solve a complex problem. That was my reaction when I first read about the Direct Project. I am one of those people that really hates filling out...
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Healthcare: When the lights go out and power fails
To quote ProPubilica.org: “It is a hospital’s nightmare: The power goes out and the backup generators don’t kick in, leaving critically ill patients without the mechanical help they need to breathe.”...
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3 ways Cognitive Computing could change Business Intelligence
After reading Fast Company’s article on how IBM’s Watson is learning its way to save lives, there was a moment where I wondered if IBM’s claim of Watson being the first machine of the third wave of...
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Gamification: Playing a Game to learn how to create one?
At Perficient, we have been focusing on using gamification in healthcare applications to improve the patient engagement experience and help consumers of healthcare enjoy the experience more. One of...
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9 Keys to Help Bundled Payments Work
One of the most feared and yet promising aspects of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, is the voluntary five-year national pilot program on...
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EMR 3.0 and Doctors Lacking an Analytic Engine
As a big fan of kevinmd.com, I enjoyed reading David Nash, MD’s take on how doctors need an “EMR 3.0” analytic engine for accountability and that creating an analytics tool that monitors gaps in care...
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7 Healthcare Ideas for Google Glasses
When wandering through the large HIMSS 2013 exhibit hall in New Orleans this year, I am inspired by innovation and the impact of mobile technologies on healthcare. I was thinking about the article in...
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Quality Reporting Data Architecture (QRDA) Primer
One of the key ways to improve productivity in healthcare is to become more efficient at interoperability within a healthcare organization and between healthcare organizations. Sharing quality...
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Taking back the reins: Value-Based Purchasing in Healthcare
In a period of rapidly rising costs for healthcare and nagging questions about whether paying more for healthcare results in higher quality outcomes, purchasers of healthcare are looking for tools to...
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Will ACOs drive up costs for patients?
I was recently talking with one of my colleagues about a strange situation that happened to her when her local hospital and healthcare provider merged with a larger healthcare system. As a result of...
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Are you sensing my stress?
Stress is a killer and each of us struggles with controlling stress in our own way. Often stress relief comes in the form of equally destructive behaviors including over-eating, smoking, watching too...
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Hang on; I’m getting a notification from my body on my phone
Today I heard an airplane defined as a number of parts flying in formation. That is an accurate description of an airplane if your work is to maintain or repair airplanes. But that definition isn’t...
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It is time for Interoperability to catch fire! (FHIR® that is)
One of my healthcare consulting friends once said that interoperability was difficult because healthcare was interactional, not transactional. The interactive nature of the healthcare organization and...
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The Coming “Big Data” Storm
As a technologist raised in Kansas as a child, I am used to examining the horizon for changes in the weather. We could watch the large thunderstorms build up during the heat of the day into 40,000...
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Google Decides to Take on Oil of Olay
Google is tackling anti-aging with their new healthcare initiative called Calico. It remains to be seen if it is a threat to anti-aging creams or will increase their potential customers. But...
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Are you really listening to your patients?
If the pressure to obtain and implement Customer Relationship Management software by healthcare organizations is any indication, decision makers are recognizing the increasing importance of consumer...
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