Q&A: Chief health information officer talks value of emerging role
Terri Steinberg, MD, is the chief health information officer and vice president for population health informatics at Christiana Care Health System. She was the CMIO of the organization until this year but explains that in her new role she can address the needs of those not in the facility's beds or clinics significantly better.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 9, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Skip Snow Tags: Online Only Accountable Care Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Workforce Source Type: news
MaineGeneral, FBI probe cyber attack
MaineGeneral Health CEO Chuck Hays provided details of a cyber attack on the health system's network that has put patient data at risk and involved an FBI investigation.
On Nov. 13, 2015, the FBI notified MaineGeneral that agents had detected MaineGeneral data on an external website that is not accessible by the general public.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Source Type: news
HIMSS names new Stage 7, Davies winners
HealthNet, Indiana's largest federally-qualified health center, has been selected as a 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Clinical Electronic Health Records Patient Engagement Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
9 organizations urge Congress to oppose delay of Stage 3
Health IT Now, along with with eight other organizations, some of them health IT vendors, are calling on Congress to stay the course on Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program.
Health IT Now describes itself as a broad-based coalition of patient groups, provider organizations, employers and payers.
Meaningful Use
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Interoperability Meaningful Use Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit: See live updates here
As healthcare and technology professionals gather to share strategies for optimizing revenue cycle management in a challenging and fast-changing reimbursement environment, Healthcare IT News' sister publication Healthcare Finance is on the case.
Follow here for real-time updates from the Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Atlanta.
Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare Finance Staff Tags: Online Only Accountable Care Analytics Business Intelligence Claims Processing Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: news
Google names experimental life sciences lab: Verily
Google's Alphabet unit christened its so-called moonshot health lab with the name Verily.
Before Google established Alphabet, the lab originated within Google X, taking on smart contact lenses as one of its first projects.
Now that it's Verily, Google revealed the four key pieces: hardware, software, clinical and science.
Analytics
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Imaging Medical Devices Source Type: news
SAP precision medicine software aims to improve research and outcomes
SAP on Tuesday unwrapped a pair of new products for precision medicine.
The enterprise software vendor is not new to precision or personalized medicine and neither are rivals such as Oracle and to a certain extent Microsoft.
SAP's new wares, Foundation for Health and Medical Research Insights, are built on top of its HANA in-memory computing platform.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Analytics Business Intelligence Population Health Source Type: news
Carequality interoperability framework seeks wide appeal
Carequality, a public-private collaborative working as part of the Sequoia Project (formerly known as Healtheway) to drive more efficient data exchange, has launched an interoperability framework it says will be useful to a diverse array stakeholders.
[See also: Sequoia Project proposes patient matching framework]
Interoperability
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 8, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Interoperability Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Friday deadline for HIMSS16 Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit proposals
The Friday deadline to submit your proposal for the HIMSS and Healthcare Finance News Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Las Vegas, Feb. 29, at the HIMSS16 Annual Conference is fast approaching.
Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
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MD Revolution lands $23M for population health management
MD Revolution has completed a $23 million financing round, co-led by Chicago-based Jump Capital and a leading global healthcare technology company. It brings the total raised to more than $30 million.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 7, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Analytics Data Warehousing Electronic Health Records Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
6 things healthcare CIOs need to know about migrating to Windows 10
6 things to know about Windows 10
With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is radically changing the way they think about the operating system. Instead of discrete OS releases every couple of years, Microsoft is encouraging the world to move toward continuous OS updates.
Network Infrastructure
6 things healthcare CIOs need to know about migrating to Windows 10
Windows 10, which Microsoft is positi...
Source: Healthcare IT News - December 7, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vinil Menon,Viren Chakraborty Tags: Mobile Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
5 things to know about CMS' mandatory bundled payment program
CMS announced the first mandatory test of shared-risk, outcomes-based payment model and the first initiative to make hospitals financially-responsible for patient recovery, 90-days after a knee or hip replacement surgery.
The landmark program, Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement, goes into effect April 1, 2016. Patient engagement and care coordination technology will be key to helping hospitals meet cost containment requirements.
Policy and Legislation
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Emerging role: How a CHIO harnesses data for population health
John Showalter, MD, is the chief health information officer at the University of Mississippi. He evolved into that role after studying biomedical engineering at Columbia, followed by combined residency and fellowship in clinical informatics at Penn State for medical school.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 7, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Skip Snow Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Patient Engagement Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Kaiser to acquire Group Health
Kaiser Permanente will acquire Seattle-based Group Health, Kaiser executives announced today. Executives from both health systems, each known for early adoption of healthcare IT, announced their plans today.
The financial terms of the deal were not released.
The combination of two healthcare powerhouses will advance the growth of the integrated model for healthcare and coverage together and expand Kaiser Permanente's reach, adding nearly 590,000 members, Kaiser executives said, in announcing the deal.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Mergers & Acquisitions Policy and Legislation Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Health plan provider directory data should be updated monthly for the patient's sake
Directory data should be updated monthly
On Nov. 13, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated guidance in the 2016 Call Letter and Medicare Marketing Guidelines that previously called for health plans to update provider directories on a monthly basis. Unfortunately for patients, the data is now required to be updated on a quarterly basis – leaving patients with data that is up to three months old when they need health care.
Patient Engagement
Health plan provider directory dat...
Source: Healthcare IT News - December 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Torben Nielsen Tags: Data Warehousing Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
