Inefficiencies are cited for contributing heavily to the spiraling costs associated with healthcare. Amazingly, much of the healthcare industry operates with ill-equipped, outdated technology systems which hamper efficiency and effectiveness. To remedy this problem, the government is incentivizing healthcare organizations to make substantial business changes that rely on sizable investments in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT). […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’
Health Insurance Consumers: Let Them Eat Cake
Last week I read an article in TechCrunch called “Cake Health, The ‘Mint for Health Insurance’“. This article is about a new start up, called Cake Health of course, and it really got my attention. Cake Health aims to rid healthcare consumer of their headaches, and that’s quite a lofty business model considering the current […]
Understanding Outcomes: Lessons from Texas Children’s Hospital
Consumers are savvier today than in the past. With the wealth of comparative information available, consumers can make more informed decisions on where to get their healthcare services. Those organizations that can provide meaningful data to consumers will have a definitive advantage in this new market dynamic. Texas Children’s Hospital is a great example of […]
Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set
Join Perficient for our September 15th webinar, “Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set” Migration from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets is one of the most extensive and risky conversion projects healthcare insurers will face. Conversion will impact organizational structure, business processes, healthcare policies and IT systems. The […]
ICD-10 Migration Approach: Systems Remediation
Healthcare Payers must determine all business processes and applications impacted by the change to ICD-10. Applications that capture, store, send, receive, or edit diagnosis or procedure codes must be modified. Fields must support alphanumeric characters and expanded to support an extra digit. The new specificity of IDC-10 codes will impact corresponding application logic, business rules, […]
How The Accounting and Health IT Geeks Solved the Healthcare Cost Crisis
How’s that for a future headline? Earlier this week, a coworker passed along a link to an article with a rather bold title, “How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care“. This article was written by world-renowned Harvard strategists Kaplan and Porter who are best known for the Balanced Scorecard and Five Forces, respectively. […]
Strengthening Consumer Experience in a Post-Reform Insurance Market
As shown in a recent Forrester report, the health insurance industry faces a great deal of discontent from consumers. Of the 13 industries tracked by Forrester, health plans rank dead last in consumer experience. At the same time, the market for individual insurance coverage is growing. Reform will continue to accelerate this growth. In this […]
ICD-10 Migration Approach: Data Impact Assesment
While 5010 has taken a backseat to ICD-10 in the media, payers must still meet the change to 5010 on January 1, 2012 before implementing ICD-10. Version 5010 accommodates the ICD-10 code, and must be in place first before the changeover to ICD-10. ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims […]
Using Mobile Health to End “One Size Fits None” Healthcare
In our previous posts we discussed “gamification” and how it can be used to create patient experiences that increase adherance to medical protocol. We also discussed the use of Web 2.0 technologies that bring patients and physicians together to make improvements to that medical protocol. Fortunately, more and more healthcare organizations are investing in healthcare […]
Can Social Media be Used to Improve Medical Protocol?
A colleague of mine recently slipped me a copy of “A Web 2.0 Model for Patient-Centered Health Informatics Applications” by Mark Weitzel, Andy Smith, Scott de Deugd, and Robert Yates of IBM. I learned two things as a result of this gesture: 1) my colleagues know me very well and 2) web and social technologies […]
What is the Greatest Mobile Health Challenge?
In a post last week I outlined the trend of using “gamification” and mobile technology to solve real-world health problems. In summary, gamification is the practice of using gameplay mechanics in non-game applications, such as health apps that engage patients and assist them in managing chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Gamification is becoming […]
Removing the Nonsense from Gaining Meaningful Use
In social media circles new bloggers often ask me what they should blog about. My number one answer is “pick your passion”. If you write about something that truly interests you, something that makes your ears perk up when you hear random mumblings on the topic while in line for morning coffee, then you will […]