Posts Tagged ‘healthcare analytics’

Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Healthcare decision makers are being called upon to reduce waste, improve operational processes, […]

Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Data in and of itself has no value. To add value data must […]

In the book As The Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez notes that “in a knowledge economy, you can work at your desk, in your home, in a hotel, or in a plane.” As a person that operates in just that manner, there are real concerns not about just the connectivity to accomplish that mode of […]

Health plans, patients, and employers are demanding greater accountability and demonstration of value for their healthcare dollar, and these demands will only intensify in the future. To be successful, healthcare organizations need to establish a culture of performance management; that is, an ongoing process by which organizations define their strategic direction and then deploy their […]

As we approach 2012, it is critically important to consider the implementation of Healthcare Analytics. This point could not have been made more clear to me than it was during a final “orals presentation” prep to a recent prospective healthcare system client. “Technology has finally been embraced (begrudged by some in Healthcare) by the Healthcare […]

Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Healthcare leaders such as Kathleen Sebelius and David Blumenthal claim that the HITECH […]

Implementing healthcare reform measures impact every aspect of healthcare operations. In January 2009, HHS published the proposed rule mandating all U.S. healthcare providers to migrate to ICD-10 medical diagnosis codes by October 1, 2013. However, to be ICD-10 compliant, organizations must also have transitioned from the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 4010 […]

Healthcare Payers must determine all business processes and applications impacted by the change to ICD-10. Applications that capture, store, send, receive, or edit diagnosis or procedure codes must be modified. Fields must support alphanumeric characters and expanded to support an extra digit. The new specificity of IDC-10 codes will impact corresponding application logic, business rules, […]

While 5010 has taken a backseat to ICD-10 in the media, payers must still meet the change to 5010 on January 1, 2012 before implementing ICD-10. Version 5010 accommodates the ICD-10 code, and must be in place first before the changeover to ICD-10. ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims […]

Last Thursday Perficient held a webinar led by Curtis Mahanay who is a Senior Functional Consultant and accountant. The webinar was entitled, “Deeper Insight into Financials with a Driver-Based Cost & Profitability Model“. He presented on the important topic of turning data into information that capital intensive organizations, like hospitals, can use to maintain efficiency, […]

As we mentioned in an earlier post about Tracking a Single Patient in a Connected Healthcare Environment, the key to making an integrated healthcare system work is identifying and managing a unique patient identifier that can be used to connect one patient across a diverse network of care providers. In this post we are going […]

We all remember when IBM’s Watson beat the two all time grand champions of Jeopardy (if you don’t then see the video above). However, as Watson moves into various industries we wonder what Watson would look like in the healthcare industry. Today we got the answer to that question from Randall Wilcox of IBM at […]