The Journey of a thousand miles towards an ACO begins with one step. Healthcare organizations are coming to realize that the programs stimulated by the ARRA – HITECH Act, Meaningful Use (MU) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), require something that they don’t have in sufficient quantities, the desired type or in the right format: “Data”. […]
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ICD-10: Potential Financial Benefits and Issues
Some healthcare solutions experts foresee the following five financial benefits of ICD-10:[1] Providers can establish or strengthen CDIs by conducting thorough reviews of clinical documentation and implementing improvements, such as a CDI “Lite” program. Development of patient preferences due to new procedures being performed based on more thorough and detailed ICD codes. Patient preference will […]
Perficient to Deliver New SOA-Based Services for NASCO
The Healthcare practice at Perficient continues to grow, this time by providing Service Oriented Architecture services to NASCO, a health plans solutions provider. With this solution in place, NASCO will continue to allow the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations to provide successful services to their members. From the press release which you can read […]
Carpe Periclitatio – Seize the Testing
Take the initiative and create as thorough a testing plan as you can. Remember – test, test, test, test, and test again. I can’t stress this enough. You are now ready to start testing with your trading partner, which could include a provider, clearinghouse, another payer, etc. Do you know what needs to be tested, […]
Minneapolis Event: Building Social Intelligence
Is your organization facing an overwhelming quantity of data? Are you interested in learning more about harnessing Big Data in Healthcare? Join us for the event, “Building Social Intelligence: How to Leverage Big Data and Social Analytics to Drive Business Insight” on July 31st. Denise Hatzidakis, CTO of Premier Healthcare Alliance, will discuss turning an […]
Your Attitude is Showing: Inhibiting Health IT Progress
Last year, I was leading a SharePoint strategy session with a client. During one of the meetings the Chief of Staff, a visionary and highly regarded physician, asked the Director of IT if they could setup a website where they could post the next year’s physician contracts. Each physician could sign on, read the contracts, […]
Strengthening Healthcare – Incorporate What is Not Average
The complexity of the current healthcare delivery system incorporates an overall assessment and treatment modality that applies to the general population. It is common practice to look at trends and averages in the general population in improving the performance and quality of care. Along this line of thinking, there are disease and patient populations that […]
Finding a Real Patient-Centric View in Kaiser Permanente
In healthcare consulting, we discuss the patient-centric view frequently. We want our EMRs, our clinical data repositories, and business processes to be patient-centric and focused on a complete view from that vantage point. On June 21st, I had the privilege of touring the new Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health located near Union Station in […]
Creating a Lean Mean Healthcare Machine: Part 2
In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Lean Methodology for Healthcare and provided readers with the basic overview to its purpose, goals and basic principles. To quickly refresh your memories, the overall purpose and goal of Lean thinking, simply stated, is to eliminate unnecessary waste to drive value. In order to achieve […]
White Paper: The Intelligent ACO: A Primer
The term “Accountable Care Organization”, or ACO, is used to describe a primary physician centric healthcare delivery system with a shared savings compensation model. ACOs are primary physician-centric groups of doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers, who voluntarily come together with a proper legal structure which aims to provide coordinated high-quality care to […]
Tools of the Trade: The Gap Analysis
The Gap Analysis is the examination of hindrances a project incurs that halts tasks or total project completion. Major project gaps are normally apparent but minor steps that undermine projects often times do not materialize until well into a project. Interviews and JAD sessions give a clear view regarding current processes while the project scope […]
It’s time to stick your head in the cloud
A friend of mine started a business providing a uniquely customizable, cloud-based EMR solution. His business is growing quickly and enables small physician practices to create a “practicized” EMR that minimizes retraining, lowers overall time to deploy, and is ridiculously inexpensive compared to traditional EMR solutions. His solution offers these benefits because it is cloud […]