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 […]
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An Integrated view of CMS ACO Shared Savings Program Measures
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence Claims + Meaningful Use participation + GPRO + Survey = CMS ACO SSP Simple, right? How will your facility approach the December 31, 2013 deadline? Will they cut and paste result sets from 4 or more systems? Hand code at the top level from a screen […]
The Healthcare Debate is now about Finance
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 […]
Oracle and Salesforce.com Announce New Strategic Partnership
Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost implementations. Both Companies Agree to Integrate Salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds From Oracle OPN Press Release, Redwood Shores, Calif. – June 25, 2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] and Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] announced today a comprehensive […]
Enhancing Patient Experience through Financial Transparency
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 […]
The role of a Data Warehouse in the Accountable Care Organization
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 […]
Rigor and Quality Analysis – it’s time for precision
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence In a recent blog, I wrote about parallel industries; Manufacturing, Airline, and Healthcare and the need to get to a Balance Sheet of Clinical Results for the Healthcare Industry. With EMR Adoption Rates increasing year over year, HIMSS is reporting for the Final 2012 reporting […]
Time for a Balance Sheet of Clinical Results
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence Blue or Red? Doesn’t matter. It’s a question I get asked daily when I talk about Healthcare Consulting, Technology, and oh yeah, Clinical Measurement. Over 2 years ago, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law, my industry went off […]
Patient Centered Medical Homes and Patient Portals
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence In early March, Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director of AHRQ, posted in her Director Corner’s a nice motivational story about Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) supporting Self Care and empowering patients. Whether you are the 50 year old Type 2 Diabetic, the caregiver to an elderly relative […]
Treat the Asthma, but forget about the GYN exam?
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Statistical Brief was just released showing that as a total society (the whole, entire USA), Women are mostly likely to be seen for Asthma/COPD, then Upper Respiratory, then Pregnancy, and then Mental Disorders. Private payors payed more than 50% of […]
Natural Language Processing Improves Diabetic Care
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) published the results of a study that showed the overwhelming impact on diabetic care when the patients are seen consistently by their regular doctor. When seen by their regular doctor, […]
Jim Bindon speaks about patient portals at HIMSS13
Jim Bindon is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of all of Avnet’s vertical industries, which includes Healthcare, Government, Finance, Retail, and Energy. His career in healthcare began over 30 years ago as a Director of Radiology followed by 17 years working for the Health Sciences Division of Eastman Kodak. Jim recently spoke to […]