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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
by Liza Sisler on August 29th, 2010
Harness Clinical and Financial Data with Enterprise Health Information Exchange (Webinar this week)
by Erin on August 23rd, 2010
As Martin Sizemore said in a recent post to this blog: “Information and data exchange is critical to the delivery of quality patient care services and effectiveness of healthcare organizations…The solution is a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) which is an initiative that aligns the areas of technology, interoperability, standards utilization, harmonization, and business information systems necessary to make the elimination of the healthcare clipboard possible.”
HIEs have started to become quite the buzz-word in enterprise healthcare IT, and for many good reasons.
Perficient has put together a webinar as part of our monthly “Perficient Perspectives” series, scheduled for this Thursday, August 26th at 12:00 CST.
Harness Your Clinical and Financial Data with Enterprise Health Information Exchange
Join us as we discuss the importance of Enterprise Health Information Exchange (EHIE) as a key way to empower your physicians and patients and demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records. Presenter John White is Managing Director of Healthcare Solutions for Perficient. Click here for Registration and More Information
Let’s work on the demise of the healthcare clipboard!
by Martin Sizemore on August 23rd, 2010
I have always been frustrated by having to fill out the same health history forms at the doctor’s office, emergency room, hospital or out-patient clinic. Honestly, if these healthcare providers are part of a regional healthcare “system” then my information should be shared as easily as giving my consent. Instead, the situation appears to be getting worse. As I get older and I have to see a specialist now and then, out comes the inevitable clipboard. I don’t mind updating my address, phone numbers or insurance information because that makes sense in our mobile (and mobile phone) society. However, I shouldn’t be expected to “stand and deliver” on when each and every surgery or medical procedure that was done in the last five years, especially when I frequent the same hospitals, doctors or labs.
In my view, information and data exchange is critical to the delivery of quality patient care services and effectiveness of healthcare organizations. The benefits of appropriate sharing of health information among patients, physicians, and other authorized participants in the healthcare delivery value chain, are nearly well understood and desired by us regular clients. If my experience is any indicator, few organizations and systems have taken advantage of the full potential of the current state of the art in computer science and healthcare informatics. The solution is a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) which is an initiative that aligns the areas of technology, interoperability, standards utilization, harmonization, and business information systems necessary to make the elimination of the healthcare clipboard possible.
Why Aren’t You Leveraging Analytics in Your Organization?
by Michael Faloney on August 20th, 2010
Analytics can offer a wide range of benefits to healthcare organizations. It can provide information to make better decisions on or impact quality of care, patient outcomes, cost containment, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. At a theoretical level, healthcare organizations understand these benefits. In fact, implementing analytics is on the top ten list of many healthcare organizations today. Ironically, most aren’t pursuing it to the level they need. So what’s stopping them? I’ve heard a number of different reasons over years and found that many are based on assumptions that simply aren’t true:
“Analytics are expensive and I don’t have the budget”
It’s true that enterprise analytics can be expensive over the long haul. However, when done properly, they can (and should) offer payback far more than the investment. Additionally, getting started doesn’t always require a large investment. There are tools and technologies available that allow you to test out analytics at a relatively low cost. Using these tools also allow you to see what technologies will and will not work for what you want to do.
The Digital Nervous System for Healthcare Providers
by Martin Sizemore on August 19th, 2010
Each of us has stubbed our toe and waited for the signal from the nerve in the toe to get to our brain for the final ouch. That analogy helps us understand the nature of a near real-time system of messages to help us avoid pain in daily operations. The typical healthcare provider has dozens of healthcare applications, outside vendors and even medical devices that produce HL7 messages. Those HL7 messages are the key to developing a digital nervous system for healthcare providers and creating a real interoperability backbone between multiple clinical systems and the decision-making process.
The challenge is the development of the nervous system that carries these messages from the point of origination to all of the places needed by the whole organization. Keeping with our analogy, we need a spinal cord to carry the messages to the brain for decisions. In addition, there is a need in a nervous system for feedback loops when there is a critical message. The brain has little to do with the decision to immediately draw back a hand touching a hot stove – it is a quick response. In a healthcare environment, there are often messages that need that same type of immediate response to avoid an adverse reaction and protect patient safety.
Convergence CT Partnership – Healthcare Research Data Warehouse
by Mike Arian on August 9th, 2010
Perficient is happy to announce a new partnership with Convergence CT. CCT offers a very interesting Healthcare Research Data Warehouse Platform. This platform is a big leap forward in research technology
Perficient wins Microsoft Health Provider Partner of The Year Award
by Liza Sisler on July 19th, 2010
Jack Hersey (Microsoft), Chris Gianattasio (Perficient), Liza Sisler (Perficient) and Brian Scott (Microsoft)
While attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week in Washington DC, I was excited to be part of the team that had the honor of accepting Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of The Year Award on behalf of Perficient. This was a great honor and references in part our work with clients such as Virtua Health System on their VirtuaWoman Women’s Health Portal. Thank you to Microsoft, our clients & partners for sharing in this recognition of our work with us!
You can see Virtua Health System’s CIO Al Campanella discussing why Perficient was selected for this initiative as Al talks about the partnership in this video from HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta (also below).
Enterprise HIE
by Mike Arian on July 9th, 2010
It seems that everywhere you look someone is talking about HIE or claiming to have an HIE product. But is there widespread adoption, and for it’s intended use? HITECH requires that the provider market invest in HIE, but how do you ensure that you protect your investment from all the hype. In the short term the answer may be enterprise HIE.
ICD-10 Assessment and Roadmap for Health Plans
by Marty Frygier on July 7th, 2010
It seems that there isn’t enough time to get everything done that is currently required by HIPAA, ARRA, and state and regional priorities – not to mention the consumer driven strategies that you were *hoping* to deploy to differentiate your business and gain competitive advantage. Although large and numerous projects are required, it is nearly impossible to not run these projects concurrently as any delay creates the potential for missed hard dates. With near term priorities moving full speed ahead, ICD-10 runs the risk of a late start. At a minimum you should consider a full ICD-10 assessment and roadmap to ensure that you clearly understand the impact on your organization as well as a high level timeline and budgetary estimate for delivery.
Clinical Decision Assist Part II – Real Time Clinician Support
by Mike Arian on May 18th, 2010
In part I we discussed the value of near real-time analytics to support clinical care delivery. As promised we wanted to next discuss the power of Clinical Decision Assist – providing clinicians with the ability to effect change while the ability to do so still exists. Near real-time analytics environments are difficult to develop, especially in the provider environment. So is it really worth all of the effort? Stay tuned and let’s find out.
