Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’

As your grandmother used to say, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” This is the attitude you should use when establishing rapport with your trading partners. It also works well when dealing with most situations. This doesn’t mean that you have to bend over backwards and acquiesce, but if you are […]

The Federal Register outlines the following pros from comments received on the adoption of X12 Version 5010 for HIPAA Transactions: 1) reduction in analysis time and minimization of companion guides; 2) improved efficiency through improved eligibility responses and better search options, reducing phone calls to providers and health plans; 3) improved electronic posting, automation of […]

This is a topic I touched on a couple of months ago in my blog “EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health.” Health Systems have been on a tear over the last several years with the deployment of technology to enable the transactional or tactical execution of business activities and delivery of care. With the diversity […]

This week, I met with the IT organization of a large hospital. We talked about their technology, their culture, and their needs. There were a couple of quotes that I found interesting. “Our Physicians just want a report; they won’t dig for the data themselves.” “They know we [IT] are so backlogged, they no longer […]

Moving forward in the arsenal of tools are the JAD sessions. JAD (Joint Application Discovery) is also known as discovery sessions in which the truth of processes, procedures, or workflow is truly brought to light. JAD goes beyond the regular interview by pulling resources together to perform a review involving those previously in singular or […]

Escalating costs and suboptimal quality of care are indicators that the healthcare system is broken. Preventative care is being pushed aside and traded for costly ER visits and inpatient hospital stays. The problem does not end here, however; once patients receive the necessary inpatient care, many are discharged to only end up back in the […]

In my last blog posting, I talked about the role of the Data Governance Board as the key decision making body in Enterprise Data Governance. The decisions which the Data Governance Board should make should be highly strategic in nature – you don’t want executives and senior leaders sitting around arguing over fine distinctions in […]

Many of you are counting on your EMR vendors to qualify your organization for Meaningful Use. This is a risky strategy. Dr. Rowley has done some analysis and shown that with two exceptions, all attestations count for less than 10% market share from the EMR vendors. This means you are most likely waiting for the […]

The continuous and meticulous review of alleviating disparities in healthcare based demographic and socioeconomic factors is a growing segment in healthcare services delivery prioritization. There are many tiers to ascertaining the specificities of defining healthcare disparities and what the innate components are. This includes preliminary analyses of disease specific conditions delineated by healthcare services delivery […]

Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of “What the Dog Saw,” “Outliers,” “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” offered an overview of “Cowboys Versus Pit Crews: How to Build a Sustainable Health Care Delivery System” at our start of Day 3. Gladwell was introduced as “gifted” at interpreting new ideas in […]

AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni kicked off Day 2 by addressing the elephant in the room…no Supreme Court ruling today. The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and “the Mandate” within would have to wait another day. Ignagni went on to remind the conference goers that similar attempts at state-based reform in the mid-90s resulted […]

As referenced in the introduction to “America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference,” the decisions that will shape our nation’s health care are near. The Supreme Court Decision. The Presidential election. Implementation decisions within health plans that are shaping the delivery of care. The intent of the June 20-22 conference in Salt Lake City is to […]