UPMC Clinicians Win Grants to Engage Patients, Improve Care
By Rajv Leventhal, First Posted on July 25, 2014 Clinicians and other staff at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) have been awarded 11 new grants by the Beckwith Institute for projects...
View ArticleCarolinas HealthCare’s Investment in Analytics for Community Health
By Mark Hagland, Fist Posted on July 26, 2014 Clinician and other leaders at the 42-hospital Carolinas HealthCare System are moving ahead to leverage analytics capabilities to support community health...
View ArticleStudy: EHRs Help With Medication Reconciliation, but Issues Remain
By Rajiv Leventhal, First Posted on July 30, 2014 Electronic health records (EHRs) can help standardize medication reconciliation for hospitalized patients, but data quality, technical problems and...
View ArticleCerner and Siemens: Astaire and Rogers—or Spirit Airlines….???
By Mark Hagland, First Posted on August 8, 2014 Pondering the implications of the Cerner-Siemens deal—and recent airline mergers I don’t know why, but for some reason, the moment I got wind of the...
View ArticleLeveraging health information exchange in order to improve care coordination...
By Kayt Sukel, First Posted on August 7, 2014 Leveraging health information exchange in order to improve care coordination is an ideal that is being pursued in a variety of different ways in a variety...
View ArticleOf Oceans, Orcas—and HIEs
By Mark Hagland, First Posted on August 21, 2014 The Health IT Summit in Seattle this week showcased very important developments taking place in the Pacific Northwest and in Canada A lot of very...
View ArticleSeeing the Potential in Physician-Led ACOs, Dr. Mostashari Makes a Shift
By Mark Hagland, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, September 26, 2014 Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the former National Coordinator for Health IT, after a brief stopoff at the Brookings Institution,...
View ArticleAetna’s Dr. Kennedy Opens the Health Plan ACO-Strategy Kimono
By Mark Hagland, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, October 14, 2014 What does it mean when a prominent health insurer picks sole integrated health systems to partner with in individual...
View ArticleThe Good News- Bad News Scenario on U.S. Healthcare Spending: Big Numbers,...
By Mark Hagland, first posted on Healthcare Informatics, October 25, 2014 CMS’s new projections on overall U.S. healthcare spending from 2014 through 2023 are alarming—and they should be As seems...
View ArticleSolving Mississippi’s Diabetes Problem with Telehealth and Care Management
By Gabriel Perna first posted on Healthcare Informatics, November 11, 2014 Kristi Henderson, D.N.P. isn’t going to sugar coat things when talking about where her home state, Mississippi, ranks on...
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