I have spent time over the past few weeks speaking with healthcare executives to get their perspective on ACOs, also known as Attorneys and Consultants Opportunities. For the most part, people are in general agreement when it comes to describing the function of an ACO. So much for the good news. Where the process breaks […]
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Do You Have A Vision Problem?
No, I’m not talking about the bottom line on the eye chart; I’m talking about your EMR adoption. With incentives and penalties looming on the horizon many organizations from multi-hospital health systems to small physician practices are struggling with the if, when, and how questions around adopting an EMR. Reasons cited are all over the […]
Practice is Key to an Impressive Interview
Lucky you! If you are fortunate to be asked to interview at a prospective employer, are you prepared? The healthcare IT job market for CIOs and IT leaders is highly competitive. Along with your job experience, your executive presence, manners and style will be judged. Let me go over some typical interview scenarios and helpful […]
Meditech 6.0 Diary Part 7 — Pay Now and Pay Later?
Reflections on ACOs and Unicorns
With March Madness in full swing and my Cougars of BYU out of the tournament, I can finally get back to work. I’m sure you’ve now heard the line about how Accountable Care Organizations are like unicorns, “amazing creatures that have never actually been seen.” I enjoyed the difference pointed out by CMS Administrator Don Berwick, “at least we know what a unicorn looks like.”
Your Forum for Critical Health Information Exchange
My daughter is a junior in high school and we happened to be discussing “boys” one night recently at dinner. During the conversation, my daughter was outlining an exchange she had with a friend earlier in the day on how frustrated she was with her boyfriend because he “should have known” how to handle whatever […]
Intermountain Healthcare and EHRs
Before we go too far in assuming that you need an EHR to achieve what Intermountain has, in terms of lowering costs and improving clinical outcomes, it’s worth drilling down a little further. It is Intermountain’s billing, registration, and case mix systems that enable much of what the organization achieves … and virtually every healthcare […]
I’m Taking This Study With a Big Grain of Salt
In a March 8th press release by HHS and an article on the ONC Health IT Buzz web site Dr. David Blumenthal touts that a “new study finds that 92 percent of recent peer-reviewed articles on HIT reached conclusions that showed overall positive effects.” While I don’t doubt the validity of the study, I am […]
Two HIEs Are One Too Many
According to Wikipedia, Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems while maintaining the meaning of the information being exchanged. That seems really straight forward, at least to […]