If I had a dollar every time an Enterprise Architect said, “I have a Road Map,” and handed me the future state IT architecture (which is 5 years out) and proceeded to verbalize current to future IT while I madly wrote every word down in preparation for a Business Transformation Session to prioritize/re-prioritize initiatives, well […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare analytics’
Member-centric Care: Open source to the rescue?
A must read from my colleague, Martin Sizemore, entitled, “Is it time for open source in healthcare?” Wow! This Business/Process with system enablement person, me, can understand this architecture stack. Yes, now more than ever we need open source. Prototyping Open Source for testing ICD-9 to ICD-10 with on the fly remediation before going to […]
ICD-10 Revenue Neutrality Will Drive Collaborative Testing
I was reading my collegue Mike Berard’s blog, on ICD-10 Revenue Neutrality: A Strategic Approach. We have discussed the importance of testing before production between Payer and Provider (e.g., Physicians and facilities). In his 2nd to last paragraph Mike proposes the following: “The reality is that Revenue Neutrality verification is still subject to the availability […]
Healthcare data – can you dig it?
I started my career building training systems for the US Navy. Since then I have worked in Aviation, Finance, Logistics, Education, Telecommunications and Healthcare. I can honestly say the healthcare industry is the thriftiest group of people from this list. Healthcare is a market with so much money pouring through, this seems like it cannot […]
ACO – A Brave New Enterprise: Are you ready?
Racing towards an ACO and Population Management this year is a huge challenge. A new enterprise platform is a must for an ACO to coordinate the changing of Provider and Payer processes and behavior not to mention the Shared Savings contracts which require new measurements and reporting: a shared dashboard. Check out Martin Sizemore’s take […]
Member-centric Care: Have we missed a core team member?
Recently rolled off a large payer, I am sitting back and reflecting on what is facing the healthcare industry today and what has happened over the past 15+ years (Looking at the forest rather than the trees). 1) Are we, all business and information technology professionals, clinicians, and non-clinicians, working on the correct priorities for […]
Is Your IT BI Strategy Aligned to the Business Strategy?
In my February blog, I wrote about basic BI categories so we could assess our BI environment. If you recall our BI categories were as follows: Type I – Reporting and Query tool sets Type II – Analytic tool sets Type III – Predictive Modeling tool sets Now, we can gather some facts to measure […]
Texas Children’s BI Solution Wins Computerworld Honors Laureate
Perficient was recently recognized as a Computerworld Honors Laureate recipient for work done with the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Tx. Texas Children’s, an internationally recognized pediatric hospital, is utilizing business intelligence technology to understand outcomes. At Texas Children’s, the heart center team were creating over 450 spreadsheets in order to assist in the management […]
Using BI to make Core Measures more useful
It’s been nearly 15 years since the Joint Commission launched their first national hospital quality program, which required hospitals report on performance measures. The initial result of the performance measures was a hodgepodge of data gathered non-systematically and was rarely used to improve the quality of care. Today’s landscape of quality measures looks much different. […]
Intelligence Goes Mobile
I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each time the data is refreshed. This was […]
Facing and Overcoming the 2012 #HealthIT Challenges Amidst the End of the World – Part 2 of 2
In the first post of this 2 part blog we explored the big challenges with the demands that the ARRA HITECH and other compliance and regulatory impositions have impacted Healthcare IT: HIPAA’s Version 5010 conversion, ICD-10 migrations, Meaningful Use of EHRs and their Attestation and Accountable Care Organizations. We also briefly touched the popular topic […]
Are you sick of Meaningful Use?
The theme from physicians, CIOs, CMIOs, and other sundry healthcare professionals at HIMSS is consistent. Qualifying for Meaningful Use is taking up all our spare time. MU initiatives are usurping staff and delaying other projects. Many say they would like for it to just go away, but they also realize the more good, reliable, and […]