CMS has paid out more than $4 billion in Meaningful Use incentive money. I believe this is the catalyst to start healing our healthcare system. Let me explain. The healthcare industry is lagging behind the banking industry about 30 years. When I was in college, I had a checking account with a local bank. It […]
Mike Jenkins
Mike Jenkins has over 25 years of experience architecting, developing, and implementing solutions for organizations in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Mike is experienced in healthcare, finance, defense, manufacturing, training, and retail industries. Some of Mike’s healthcare projects include: developing a core measures proactive monitoring system; developing an eHealth strategy for a growing community hospital; implementing transparent pricing and outcomes measurement solutions; automating clinical and administrative tasks through forms automation; connecting multiple healthcare systems through a common patient portal; and developing an electronic medical record application. He designed the Physician’s Portal and Secure Messaging Product for one of the top-five vendors in clinical information systems. His application development experience includes Amalga, CPOE, Clinical Portals, Patient Portals, Secure Messaging, HIM, Interoperability, and NEDSS for State level health departments. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Rational Consultant (RMUC), a LEAN Black Belt, and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). He is fluent in most methodologies and teaches the PMP Certification course in Atlanta.
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Healthcare Analytics Predicted to Grow to 50% in 4 years
Research for Frost & Sullivan shows only 10% of hospitals used health analytics tools in 2011. They further predict this to follow the increased investment in EHR technology to 50% by 2016. This is fueled by programs such as the HITECH Act where analytics are needed to justify and qualify for payments. My recent blog […]
Peeking under the rug of readmissions with Business Intelligence
A recent headline claims that Medicare will penalize 2,211 hospitals for readmissions. Altogether, this equates to about $280 million in Medicare payments withheld while the government starts holding hospitals accountable for the number of patients who return within a month of discharge with complications related to the original diagnosis. The article goes on to show […]
Someday my prints will come
In my last blog, I explained the five levels of the BI Maturity Model. Today, I’m going to elaborate on level one. We all have to start somewhere. Healthcare is a profession that generates data by the ton. Most of this data is protected by federal laws for disclosure and is retained for decades in […]
Radical technology is all about radical change
One of the more notable projects I have been on was a portal design project. The customer wanted to use SharePoint to drastically improve the productivity, effectiveness, and reach of everyone in their health system. Their goal was to deploy an intranet based on great technology to do this. During one of the interviews, a […]
The BI Maturity Model
I was looking for a way to explain the challenges I’ve had this year getting people to adopt our Health BI solution. The solution is a highly complex business intelligence platform that offers over 600 pre-built measures. It is ONC certified for meaningful use for providers and hospitals. It sets the foundation for health systems […]
Hurry up and wait
Today I sit on an airplane waiting for our turn to taxi and takeoff. We boarded the plane about 20 minutes behind schedule, and then we wait. I’m going to arrive late for my meeting if I make it at all. This makes me think about business intelligence and ways it can be used to […]
Your Attitude is Showing: Inhibiting Health IT Progress
Last year, I was leading a SharePoint strategy session with a client. During one of the meetings the Chief of Staff, a visionary and highly regarded physician, asked the Director of IT if they could setup a website where they could post the next year’s physician contracts. Each physician could sign on, read the contracts, […]
Patients with no patience
I know a man who was instructed to fast before a procedure. He arrived at the surgery center the morning of his procedure. During his prep, they asked if he had anything to eat or drink. He said “I only had coffee this morning.” His doctor informed him they could not do the surgery today […]
It’s time to stick your head in the cloud
A friend of mine started a business providing a uniquely customizable, cloud-based EMR solution. His business is growing quickly and enables small physician practices to create a “practicized” EMR that minimizes retraining, lowers overall time to deploy, and is ridiculously inexpensive compared to traditional EMR solutions. His solution offers these benefits because it is cloud […]
Hey buddy, can you spare some change?
This week, I met with the IT organization of a large hospital. We talked about their technology, their culture, and their needs. There were a couple of quotes that I found interesting. “Our Physicians just want a report; they won’t dig for the data themselves.” “They know we [IT] are so backlogged, they no longer […]
Putting the Meaning in Meaningful Use
Many of you are counting on your EMR vendors to qualify your organization for Meaningful Use. This is a risky strategy. Dr. Rowley has done some analysis and shown that with two exceptions, all attestations count for less than 10% market share from the EMR vendors. This means you are most likely waiting for the […]