Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’

Big Data presents a lot of new opportunities – from analytics on petabytes of data to Complex Event Processing (CEP) of many large streams of data in real time. However, Big Data also presents big challenges for Data Management. These challenges include security/privacy, governance, data modeling, and backups. Security – security for many NoSQL-based Big […]

From time to time, it is a good idea to re-evaluate potential IT architectures especially with the cost reduction pressures in healthcare IT. The growth in maturity of several key players in the open source software arena is gaining the attention and respect of healthcare IT decision-makers and worth evaluation as a lower cost alternative. […]

Today’s enterprise application ecosystems have evolved over an extended period of time, often resulting in fragmented, disjointed application portfolios and systems. IT is responsible for maintenance of existing business applications, functionality and infrastructure that supports current daily operations while at the same time must address the evolution of future business needs. In order to meet […]

Meaningful Use Stage 1 encouraged physicians to implement an EHR in order to capture discrete and some unstructured healthcare data with the future goal of sharing this across the industry. Stage 2 reimbursement (preliminary) will be based on the patient taking an active role in the sharing of this data. This is contrary to the […]

Industry Today Healthcare ranks as the largest industry in the world and is responsible for generating over $4.5 billion in revenue. While the United States is home to only 5% of the total world population, US residences are responsible for nearly half ($2.2 billion) of annual healthcare expenditures. The industry provides employment to over 15 […]

Does the mere mention of “ICD-10” bring on an anxiety attack of some sort? For the majority, the answer is yes! This is probably because, like numerous organizations, you still haven’t begun the necessary planning for the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Hospital administrators, physicians and medical coders are dropping to their knees and praying […]

A struggle for the Payer/Provider Industry is how to prepare the next generation of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Now more than ever you need the experienced Medical Directors, Clinicians, and Non-Clinicians on your multiple #1 initiatives. Are you preparing your next generation of SMEs? Yes, you do need the 20-25 years EE on the project […]

In my previous blogs, I asked if we were missing a key player in member-centric care and then provided my opinion. Here is a recap of questions and answers I discussed, as well as some new points: Are we, business and information technology professionals, clinicians, and non-clinicians, working on the correct priorities for member-centric care […]

The future of healthcare:

In my last blog post I asked if we have missed a core team member in member-centric care. My answer: In Sales there are the Health, Life and Supplemental Insurance Agents for employers and members that are responsible for mentoring members on plans, eligibility and benefits as well as understanding claims. These individuals make a […]

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 […]

Health care organizations which do not qualify for incentive reimbursement have in large part not implemented EHRs, leading researchers involved in a study published in the March issue of Health Affairs to conclude that it is the incentives rather than factors such as improving patient care which are driving EHR adoption. Under the 2009 federal […]