Terie McClintock

I spent some time yesterday with our friends at Oracle in the company’s #HIMSS15 booth exploring how technology enables the patient journey from the moment they learn about a hospital or physician practice to their life cycle of care. We reviewed Oracle’s portfolio of cloud solutions including: Oracle Social Cloud: Helps marketing teams manage and scale relationships […]

I’m learning lots at HIMSS this week. One of the sessions I attended examined how real-time intelligence can reduce the cost of care. At first blush, I thought it would be about real-time “analytics,” but I was incorrect. What I found was an M.D. talking about actionable cost accounting. Kind of a nice change, I’d […]

I’m learning lots at HIMSS this week about remote patient monitoring. I’m very interested in the subject of harvesting data from patient monitoring devices and mashing it up with structured data about patients. I am awestruck when I consider the possibilities. “Personal IT” and remote patient monitoring technologies (RPM) are set for incredible growth and […]

Quality Improvement processes are an essential part of the clinical care continuum. I was a math major in college (way back when) and I “buy-in” to the science around statistical process control charts and statistical methods employed in QI. At the end of the day, in my opinion, science is the basis for improving the […]

I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago about patient-powered research and I want to follow it up with a focus on population health. Population health efforts are intensely data-driven and require more data than is captured between the walls of hospitals or clinics. I’m working on an initiative right now to plan out […]

I was at the Population Health Colloquium this past week presenting with @LesliAdams from Oracle’s HSGBU Strategy Team discussing the age old question of “Who champions the EDW in a hospital setting?” Our presentation explored four types of change (Evolutionary, Disruptive, Imposed and Deliberate) and how all are needed in Healthcare. Group polling revealed that […]

How do we engage patients, coordinate care, improve quality, lower costs and share savings all at once? A group of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will be in Baltimore this week discussing this and other topics on establishing and sustaining ACOs. One of the challenges of forming and sustaining ACOs is establishing shared goals and shared […]

I was pleased to see that Healthcare Cost Management was a hot topic in the healthcare agenda for the Oracle Industry Connect event this past week. The agenda was packed with experts from Providence Health & Services, Ascension Health System and Kaiser Permanente discussing how they are all leveraging technology for automating and evolving their […]

  Launched with a $215 million investment in the President Obama’s 2016 Budget, the Precision Medicine Initiative will pioneer a new model of patient-powered research that promises to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select the treatments that will work best for their patients. 

Streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum is a constant priority within hospitals today. As an Oracle PartnerNetwork member, Perficient is among the initial partners participating in Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics delivering advanced […]

Healthcare is changing! One in three American adults have used social media to research medical conditions according to the Pew Research Center. Social media may be defined as “tools used to store and deliver information or data disseminated through social interaction”. The Mayo Clinic has embraced social media because “our patients are doing it, so […]

Although population health analytics begins with risk stratification it must quickly move to sub-population clinical analytics and individual patient analytics. Risk stratification as a science will continue to mature as providers continue to improve: Population demographic insight Clinical analytics targeting risk-stratified sub-populations Outcomes analytics based on risk-stratified sub-populations Wellness strategies for active and passive populations […]