I heard this question while wandering around the HIMSS conference. It made me pause and think. The healthcare system in the US is designed to fix problems after they occur. Payments are made this way and patients are, with few exceptions, accustomed to waiting until something is really painful, bloody, or non-functioning before they seek […]
Posts Tagged ‘ACO’
Cast Your Vote: Today’s Greatest Health IT Challenge
Health IT leaders are in the midst of handling a myriad of business challenges. Each year at HIMSS, we interview today’s biggest Health IT influencers on the hottest topics of our time. This is your chance to join those experts and tell us what YOU think are the Greatest Health IT Challenges. This quick two […]
Meeting the Challenge of Managing Population Health
In the closing weeks before the Christmas holiday, I made a whirlwind tour of several large integrated delivery networks (IDNs) in search of the newest Holy Grail in healthcare: Managing Population Health. The race to Accountable Care Organizations and Shared Savings performance contracts has resulted in a new level of enterprise data integration never imagined […]
HIMSS 2012 Trend Watch
HIMSS 2012 is upon us already. Our team will be in Las Vegas for the February 21-23 for the event. With all of the changes we are witnessing in the health insurance industry, this year’s conference promises to address the many needs of conference attendees. Whether it is meeting regulatory compliance issues or preparing for […]
Replay and Slides! ACO = HIE + Analytics: Managing Population Health
Last Thursday I spoke in a webinar entitled “ACO = HIE + Analytics: Managing Population Health with Information Exchange and Analytics“. You can view the slides below, and you can view a full recast of the webinar here: http://www.perficient.com/webinars/ Let me know what you think! ACO = HIE + Analytics – a Healthcare IT Presentation […]
Will ACOs Produce Accountable Patients?
I had the privilege of attending the Connected Health Symposium 2011 in Boston on October 20-21. One of great ideas from that Symposium was to debate the key topics in healthcare today including the idea of Accountable Care Organizations and their ability to drive quality up and costs down. At the heart of that idea […]
Does Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Inhibit Telehealth?
Technologies such as mobile health, telehealth, and social portal solutions are making great waves in healthcare organizations around the world. Technology creates a reality where patients are no longer required to go to the doctor’s office to get important care. The future seems even more promising. Technology provides patients with: Socially-Enabled Patient Portals: A platform […]
“Can We Be More Innovative in ACO?”
That was the question continually being asked at an event I was fortunate enough to take part in yesterday in Chicago, which was co-sponsored by Perficient, Premier Healthcare Alliance, and IBM. At this event, a panel was moderated by Perficient’s own Martin Sizemore on the topic of accountable care models. The panel included: Steven Riney, […]
Winning the Healthcare Information Revolution with Interoperability
Last week I came across this article entitled Top 10 EMR Installation Mistakes by Pete Rivera of Healthcare Informatics. Overall, this was a great list, but I was particularly struck by the second item listed in this top 10: We deal with this topic a lot in our practice. Many healthcare organizations invest heavily in […]
New Models of Care Delivery Fuel Health IT Discussions
New models of care delivery are inevitable. Whether it’s accountable care, or another favored form, the current incentive structure is evolving. This is occurring in hopes that waste can be eliminated and quality can improve. Although there is still much uncertainty, the inevitable truth is that the need to streamline and share information is central […]
Using Enterprise HIE to Move Clinical Information in an ACO
An Enterprise HIE is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations. The Enterprise HIE can be used to move information within a region, community or hospital system. As such, the Enterprise HIE system is a great answer to problems found when forming an ACO. HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical […]
Accountable Care Meets Analytics at AHIP
We are in San Francisco this week at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference. This is a great event, and there are a lot of themes being evaluated by the conference attendees. One hot topic from our blog is how to create sustainable Accountable Care models. This Thursday late morning session was standing room […]