Terie McClintock

Is it time to stop thinking about healthcare in terms of doctor visits? HealthIT News published an article posing this question recently in conjunction to the kick-off of the Patient Engagement Summit in San Diego. The article goes on to say that “healthcare” takes place in between visits, and away from the doctor’s office. Dr. […]

According to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about 60 percent of individuals over 65 will require some type of long-term care services during their lifetime and over 40 percent will receive care in a nursing home for some period.1 Through the Medicare Care Choices Model, in conjunction with payment reform initiatives, (CMS)  there is […]

According to the Congressional Budget Office, five diagnostic groups, including diabetes, chronic heart disease, chronic pulmonary disease, cancer and obesity account for a disproportionate amount of US healthcare spending. This, along with predicted nursing shortages, requires healthcare providers to optimize patient engagement and management of patients outside the walls of the hospital or clinic. Communication […]

Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them. The molecular medicine perspective emphasizes cellular and molecular phenomena and interventions rather than the previous conceptual and observational […]

Cindy thought she had another Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). She remembered that when she suffered the same symptoms a year ago, she called the nurse triage service. She was treated over the phone, but it was embarrassing to talk about her symptoms at work and she had to wait a while for the nurse. Today […]

Consumerism is changing how we interact with our care providers. Connecting patients more closely to care providers is especially important after discharge from a facility. My colleague Melody Smith Jones @melsmithjones shared an e-Patient petition to the ONC in her whitepaper Patient 360: The Complete View of Patient Engagement that stated “Nothing would result in […]

  This is a phrase that caught my eye here at #ANI2015 on the showroom floor. I’m sure the intent was to discuss revenue cycle solutions but for me this phrase manifests in other ways. Namely “understanding true cost” and “providing transparent pricing”. Both are important topics that correlate to consumerism and to the “Healthy […]

That image makes budgeting even seem fun, right? I can think of myself perched up on a thick fluffy cloud crunching numbers. Well honestly … I’m not sure that budgeting is ever fun but we now have the combination of the industry leading budgeting solution, Oracle Hyperion Planning, available in the cloud. As I mentioned […]

I read an article in CIO Magazine recently while doing research on big data in healthcare. The article discussed how to make use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess. No matter how we plan to use it, we have to extract it from legacy systems and build visualizations that can make […]

The assumption that rolling forecasts improve accuracy really tests the validity of our data in healthcare. Do we know enough about the metrics that are driving a useful driver-based forecast? The rolling forecast is usually a quarterly budget with a two to three year horizon that keeps a close eye on the organization’s trajectory. Typically […]

If you read the trade journals for hospitals and health systems, you are reading about cost transformation and cost management. That said, I think this really means different things to different people. In fact, I hear people say “cost” often when in fact they mean “expense”. This minor exchange of words really changes the subject. […]

My years of working with transactional systems helps me really appreciate the age old question of “how to get data out?” My curiosity about using data to gain actionable business insights started with the first computer program I ever developed. It was a natural progression of my problem-solving skills. I was involved with building transformational […]