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 […]
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Semantic Web Technologies for ICD-9 to ICD-10 Conversion
ICD-10 code mapping is not for the faint at heart. With a ten fold increase in the pure volume of codes, healthcare organizations will need a few tricks up their sleeves to pull this off. The mapping between ICD-9 and ICD-10 in many cases is not a simple 1:1 mapping. For example, ICD-9-CM code 274.02 […]
Perficient White Paper! Enterprise HIE: A Business-Driven Approach to Healthcare Reform
With conversations of connecting healthcare data across the care continuum at a fevered pitch, many are considering the true sustainability of efforts like HIE. While designing, selecting, implementing, and managing an HIE can appear like just another IT project, the ultimate goal of the Enterprise HIE is to improve the quality of care for patients […]
Does the U.S. need a Federal Law to Protect PHI and encourage HIEs?
Requirements regarding the electronic transfer of personal health information differs from state to state. Some have suggested that the Federal government needs to establish guidelines for health information exchanges. Health information exchanges (HIEs) are technology solutions that address healthcare issues by aggregating massive amounts of data and allowing multiple entities have access to the data […]
HIE: To Opt-In or Opt-Out? That is the question.
I read an article last week from Government Health IT entitled “ONC ready to test patient e-consent for health data exchange“. In summary, ONC awarded $1.24 million to develop a method by which patients can give their consent about sharing health data. Added to this contract are specifics around developing an innovative way to help […]
New White Paper! Social Media & Collaboration are Transforming Healthcare Delivery
The healthcare industry is experiencing revolutionary changes stemming from the rapidly shifting role of the patient within the care model. This is resulting in demand for easier access to healthcare professionals, access to online medical information and alternatives to contain costs and improve the quality of care. Innovations in social media and collaborative technologies provide […]
6 Hour Commute to the Doctor’s Office
Last week I decided to take an adventure. Lurred by the promise of free wifi and power outlets, I decided to take the MegaBus to a healthcare event in Chicago (I blogged about this event last week). The $30 bus fare beat out airplane in terms of cost and car in terms of hours of […]
It’s time to keep the Meaning in Meaningful Use
In the chase to implement EMRs and meet the deadlines for attestation for Meaningful Use, the real reason behind the requirements seems to get lost in some healthcare organizations. Those numerators and denominators represent people – patients with real medical needs that simply don’t want to be a number or a faceless statistic. As the […]
“Can We Be More Innovative in ACO?”
That was the question continually being asked at an event I was fortunate enough to take part in yesterday in Chicago, which was co-sponsored by Perficient, Premier Healthcare Alliance, and IBM. At this event, a panel was moderated by Perficient’s own Martin Sizemore on the topic of accountable care models. The panel included: Steven Riney, […]
Meta Data Management and Migration to ICD-10
Migrating from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will be a high stakes, costly, and highly complex effort impacting a large part of every provider or payer enterprise. Apart from the complexity of mapping from ICD-9 to ICD-10 (many are not 1:1 mappings), major changes to business processes, policies, retraining of medical coders, education of clinical staff, etc., […]
Social Business Replacing Social Media in Healthcare
This week alone I fielded three requests from healthcare organizations looking to embed social media into their traditional portal collaboration strategies. The interest can be divided into these camps: Organizations looking to implement enterprise portal solutions that provide colleagues with a way to communicate in a dynamic way. This is oftentimes being done more specifically […]
Replay and Slides! How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set
Last Thursday I spoke in a webinar entitled “Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set”. You can view the slides below, and you can view a full recast of the webinar here: http://www.perficient.com/webinars/ Let me know what you think! How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code […]