Terie McClintock

The healthcare payment systems are evolving from simple pay-for-performance demonstration projects and never-event exclusions to Medicare value based purchasing, readmission restrictions, and bundled payments. Expenses also are under scrutiny and required accurate costing data. Costing systems need to be freed from the back room and become a relevant corner stone for preparing forecasts and capacity […]

Innovation can happen when we don’t expect it.  Big data innovation is yet to be fully realized as more data crosses the internet in a few seconds than was stored in total a few years ago. New job titles like “data scientist” are emerging around the possibilities.  This new job may be the coolest job […]

Healthcare providers are getting pretty good at creating budgets and comparing financial results vs. budgets but just how realistic are these budgets in the first place? Too often enterprise budgets are created with limited insight into the operational data needed to create an accurate picture of the business drivers that affect the financials.   This is […]

Marc Perlman, Global Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Oracle, writes about how “small data” is important to solve “big” healthcare problems in HealthCare IT News “HIE Watch” magazine.   The full article can be viewed at: http://www.hiewatch.com/perspective/small-data-big-wins-0?goback=%2Egde_4001537_member_257060889 Oracle HIE solutions provide a comprehensive HIE technology stack from hardware and storage infrastructure to databases and […]

HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer told healthcare finance professionals last week at ANI: The HFMA National Institute. “People want to know why health care costs what it does and what we’re doing about it,” Fifer said. “We need to move beyond the rhetoric.”1 Fifer went on to say that consumers are fed up with […]

HFMA Thought Leadership Retreat participants met recently for a retreat about strategies for managing population health. One of the recommendations out of the retreat was to “shift emphasis from hospital care to primary care. Hospitals and health systems already are making this shift in various ways: hiring patient coordinators to ensure patients receive timely preventive […]

The CEOs of three major hospital systems participated in a round table at the recent conference that I attended to discuss how their organizations are working to improve patient experience.  One of the topics that emerged is “financial transparency”.  All three disclosed that in their facilities, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) makes regular rounds on […]

I hear these two phrases interchanged very often … yet they have different meanings. I decided to look for data that explores each in respect of the other. After completing a little research I found that 62% of patients who were given access to their provider notes took their medication as prescribed and “felt more […]

Almost everyone can relate to being a patient but not everyone can relate to the challenges of coordinated care management.  I’m here at the Patient Experience Summit at the Cleveland Clinic learning how providers will need to shift their culture and their resources to engage patients to be involved in their own care as well […]

I read an article recently about the role of analytics within an Accountable Care Organization.  This article discussed the need for a longitudinal view of patients using data from the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).  Healthcare providers are making better data decisions through uses of EMR technology, but there is more than a “query” involved! Now […]

I read an article this week about considerations for how physicians should handle “prescribing” smartphone apps to patients. Using an app to track calories is not exactly high risk, but using an app to track your blood pressure could be critical to your well-being. This also highlights the importance of proactively engaging patients to direct […]

The main factors of evaluation in the sustainability, efficiency, and quality of healthcare delivery systems are clinical management of the patient population in parallel to financial balance and modeling. In more intricate detail, the healthcare industry can examine clinical management in segmentation of acute and chronic care, accuracy in diagnosis, and appropriate time administration of […]