Population Health

 
Mostashari: Beacons highlight needed national action
May 22, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
The ONC announced the first learning guide for Beacon Nation to disseminate wisdom gained in 17 communities to help improve care quality and safety while transforming how healthcare is paid for.
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Report: HIT market will swell to $56B by 2017
May 21, 2013 |
Erin McCann
Interoperability and federal financial incentives are expected to be major growth areas in the U.S. while the Asia-Pacific region is poised for the most expansion.
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VHA, Phytel join forces on population health
May 20, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
After identifying a need to help members better engage patients, VHA teamed with Phytel to combine the latter technology with the latter's services.
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PCORI looks to fine-tune health research approach
May 16, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
With $81 million behind a fresh round of funding opportunities, the institute is committed to focusing on "research questions of most importance to patients," and, as such, is seeking projects spanning five areas.
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Mostashari: 3 tactics to redesign care and reap HIT
May 13, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
In a rousing and impassioned speech, ONC's chief said that America is halfway through digitizing healthcare and five percent of the way through transforming workflows to take advantage of the infrastructure. Achieving that will require new roles of the entire care team.
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5 tenets of OMB's 'open and machine readable' data policy
May 9, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Via the Office of Management and Budget, the White House is ratcheting up its open data projects with new policies and action items to which federal agencies must adhere.
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NIH turns to Twitter to see sequester's impact on biomed research
May 8, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
As Congress and the President prepare for more budget battles this summer, NIH director Francis Collins, MD, seeks feedback via Twitter from biomedical researchers already feeling or bracing for a hit from federal sequestration.
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NIMH moving beyond DSM
May 3, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The National Institute of Mental Health is going to shift its research framework away from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in pursuit of a classification system that relies on biological evidence as much as symptoms.
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Perspective: A targeted approach to HIE and population health
May 3, 2013 |
Gary Hamilton
InteliChart president Gary Hamilton discusses how patient portals "can also take advantage of discrete data collection and aggregation to monitor events and grab information as it is updated" for health information exchange and population health management purposes.
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Vanderbilt opens mHealth app contest
May 3, 2013 |
Erin McCann
The university hopes to entice software developers to create an application that makes patient clinical summaries user-friendly.
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HHS updates CLAS standards to reduce health disparities
May 2, 2013 |
Diana Manos
The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services, aka CLAS, "will help us build on this ongoing effort to ensure that effective and equitable care is accessible to all," HHS Secretary Sebelius said.
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Medicaid expansion didn't yield big health gains in Oregon, study says
May 2, 2013 |
Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org

Oregonians who gained Medicaid coverage had better mental health, but not physical health compared to others.
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Enabling Data as a Service in Healthcare
April 24, 2013 | On Demand Webinars
Join this webinar to learn how Delphix can accelerate IT projects in healthcare while improving application quality and reducing infrastructure costs.
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Advanced Text Mining Improves Medicare Advantage Coding
November 9, 2012 | White Papers
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are private health plans that have contracted with Medicare to receive a fixed monthly fee in exchange for providing comprehensive healthcare to plan members. In order to provide appropriate care to beneficiaries with varying medical conditions, plans are paid according to the Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score of each patient. Insufficient documentation of chronic conditions can be an obstacle to MA reimbursement. However, even when a condition has been properly documented by the provider, it is often not coded and submitted to Medicare. Read this white paper to learn how to take the complexity out of MA reimbursement.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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The HIPAA 5010 transition isn't over just yet
May 23, 2013 |
Carl Natale
It's more than a year after the HIPAA 5010 deadline and some healthcare providers are finally figuring out that they can't merely leave it up to their clearinghouses.
Welcome to Future Care
May 21, 2013 |
Benjamin Harris
Future Care, a new HIMSS media site, will be a reservoir of news and analysis – all centered on the future of our healthcare landscape.
Can you handle ICD-10 training for part-time coders?
May 21, 2013 |
Carl Natale
ICD-10 could prove to be tricky for small practices that do not typically retain full-time medical coders.
HIMSS Media launches Future Care to highlight new models
May 16, 2013 |
Benjamin Harris
Because the "future of care will call us to convene differently" the new site will focus on analytics, cognitive support, and coordination of care.
Celebrating informatics in the wake of Boston Marathon bombing
May 16, 2013 |
Lorren Pettit
While a “cancer” in society was expectantly expressed, multiple technologies were employed to collect data and synthesize into a format that provided law enforcement with the informatics needed to isolate and ultimately expunge the offending sources.
On EHR data integrity: A patient's perspective
May 14, 2013 |
Deborah Kohn
The time has come to tackle integrity of health information, not just the technical and operational mechanisms for the sending and receiving it, particularly as EHR kinks get ironed out both among internal users and the patients they serve.
Sen. Harkin ceases ban on Tavenner
May 7, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin said in a floor speech on Tuesday that he’s removing his ban on Marilyn Tavenner.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 2, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This week in Government Health IT: Reports expose state and local governments as ill-prepared, whether that be for Big Data or cyber-attacks. Also, think tanks talk patient-centered care for cost-savings.
ICD-101: Detailed documentation will make a difference
April 15, 2013 |
Carl Natale
A pair of examples about how to assign ICD-10 codes.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
March 28, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
A potential boon to healthcare price transparency, new HIE tools take on data integration and population health, dreaming about big data, and the uncertain future facing the ACA at 3.
ICD-10: How to assess your vendors' readiness
March 28, 2013 |
Carl Natale
To start, posing these 3 elements to your vendors will help determine if they will meet the compliance deadline. After that, establish a timeline with your vendors.
Using ICD-10 in population management for risk stratification
March 28, 2013 |
Catherine Mesnik
3 ways to use ICD-10 codes in the identification of risk for population management.