Tomorrow, August 24th, at 11am CT, Perficient will be moderating the #HITsm TweetChat. The acronym #HITsm stands for “healthcare IT social media” and these weekly chats center around current topics in healthcare technology, health IT, and the role of social media in healthcare. This week’s topics center around connected health. For a preview of the […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’
Data Governance Organizations – the Subject Area Data Stewardship Subcommittee
In my last blog posting, I talked about the role of the Data Governance Coordinating Committee as the body that coordinates the work of Data Stewards in Enterprise Data Governance when cross-domain enterprise data alignment is needed and to provide a consistent approach to Data Stewardship. In this posting I will describe many of the […]
Peeking under the rug of readmissions with Business Intelligence
A recent headline claims that Medicare will penalize 2,211 hospitals for readmissions. Altogether, this equates to about $280 million in Medicare payments withheld while the government starts holding hospitals accountable for the number of patients who return within a month of discharge with complications related to the original diagnosis. The article goes on to show […]
The Diversity of Healthcare Regulations
The enhanced efficiency of patient management, developing community partnerships in healthcare delivery services, and tracking and analyzing healthcare information are all essential in reviewing current regulations, while developing proposed guidelines and recommendations. This area of healthcare clearly has numerous channels in addressing quality of care while balancing existing healthcare models with cost efficiency and organizational […]
Someday my prints will come
In my last blog, I explained the five levels of the BI Maturity Model. Today, I’m going to elaborate on level one. We all have to start somewhere. Healthcare is a profession that generates data by the ton. Most of this data is protected by federal laws for disclosure and is retained for decades in […]
White paper and webinar series: Business Intelligence for Healthcare
Business intelligence as a concept is elusive in healthcare. While BI has caught up and advanced rapidly in other sectors it remains mostly uncharted territory for both physician practices and hospitals. The primary reason for this is lack of understanding of the benefits of BI and justification for taking the time to deploy and use […]
Radical technology is all about radical change
One of the more notable projects I have been on was a portal design project. The customer wanted to use SharePoint to drastically improve the productivity, effectiveness, and reach of everyone in their health system. Their goal was to deploy an intranet based on great technology to do this. During one of the interviews, a […]
The BI Maturity Model
I was looking for a way to explain the challenges I’ve had this year getting people to adopt our Health BI solution. The solution is a highly complex business intelligence platform that offers over 600 pre-built measures. It is ONC certified for meaningful use for providers and hospitals. It sets the foundation for health systems […]
Microsoft steps up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud
Prior to HIMSS 2011, I blogged about the 3 reasons for using a Managed Private Cloud for Interoperability. In that blog, I noted that in healthcare circles, cloud computing conjures up fears for protecting private healthcare information and security compliance concerns. In the last few weeks, Microsoft has introduced support for HIPAA compliance in their […]
Hurry up and wait
Today I sit on an airplane waiting for our turn to taxi and takeoff. We boarded the plane about 20 minutes behind schedule, and then we wait. I’m going to arrive late for my meeting if I make it at all. This makes me think about business intelligence and ways it can be used to […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 3
In my last blog post, we took a deeper dive into understanding the 5 Basic Lean Principles of the Lean Methodology and how incorporating these principles can help healthcare organizations achieve smooth process flows, while concentrating only on those activities that add value and eliminate activities or “waste” that do not provide any value. In […]
Tools of the Trade: The Traceability Matrix
How to track the solution for requirements is an ongoing process and if proper tracking is not executed requirement/solution documentation can become a maze, if not just flat out confusing. There are numerous ways to list solution answers to requirement and one easy method is the traceability matrix. The traceability matrix is basically a table […]