Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

The HIMSS conference can be a little intimidating, especially for first time attendees. Last year there were around 35,000 attendees and 1100 companies on the exhibit floor. If history is any guide, this year there will be even more. When you add in hundreds of education sessions, pre-conference workshops, keynote speeches and social events it […]

It has been shown that active patient engagement results in fewer hospital readmissions, decreased medical errors, and less consequences resulting from poor communications. Engaging patients improves healthcare, saves money, and reduces errors. Meaningful Use has a program goal to deploy technology to raise patient engagement. The timing is ideal, since more patients are connected every […]

As a big fan of kevinmd.com, I enjoyed reading David Nash, MD’s take on how doctors need an “EMR 3.0” analytic engine for accountability and that creating an analytics tool that monitors gaps in care for a provider’s population is very important for accountable care. We also agree that as successful as the big EMR […]

It is once again time for the annual HIMSS conference. I’ve been going to the HIMSS conference for over 15 years. For many years I went in a healthcare IT management role and more recently I’ve been going as a consultant. This is my first year attending as part of the Perficient team and I’m […]

I’ve been participating at HIMSS for the past five years but have never had the opportunity to attend the Keynote Sessions. This year, I am excited to be able to hear Dr Eric Topol, West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, Scripps Health and Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, give his thoughts on “the […]

No question about it, HIMSS is my favorite conference of the year. Not because I get to use more abbreviations and acronyms in one week than I do all year or because I get to connect with old colleagues and make new friends. And believe it or not, it is not because I thoroughly enjoy […]

Michelle McNickle recently published an interesting article in InformationWeek, titled “Can Avatars Improve Patient Outcomes?” which has sparked my interest in these new “physician extenders.” Can we actually use these personifications to improve patient care, patient outcomes and possibly even help chronic care patients learn about their disease in an anonymous manner so they don’t […]

The #HIMSS and #HIMSS13 hashtags have been generating more and more buzz as we pass the two week mark before the show opens. The annual HIMSS conference is a very social event, and the long list of Tweet Ups and Tweet Chats reflects this. Here are a few of the social media events that Perficient […]

Healthcare organizations are challenged with collaboration and coordination of patient care while struggling with many aspects of payment and quality. The shift from a traditional fee-for-service model to the ACO has many physicians worrying about a return to capitation versus risk and cost sharing. The key is managing the health of a fixed population of […]

I guess I could’ve used “fail” instead of “go on forever,” but I chose to use the latter here for a reason. For smaller initiatives, you occasionally get the former, but as is so often the case with those large enterprise endeavors, it’s the latter. I’ve seen this occur time and time again, a couple […]

Watching Grey’s Anatomy last night, I was once again struck by how they seem to be starting to weave in current healthcare issues and considerations.  For a show that has never seemed to be aware of its surroundings, or the current climate (at least to me) in the past, its seemed a little jarring.  It […]

Traditional and innovative costing models can enhance or inhibit accuracy and efficiency in costing processing. An introduction of a hybrid system may fortify the acceleration in new regulations and modifications to existing operations and methodologies. Since both organizational costing methods and service line billing and payment systems have intrinsic advantages, a hybrid cost methodology would […]