Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

I have been saying for over a year that Microsoft should put an Xbox with Kinect in every retirement home in the nation. I believe this would accomplish several things. First, it will sell Xbox units to the grandkids and their parents, which is good for Microsoft. Second, it will give the residents of the […]

Metrics are essential measurements to determine if a project is meeting the established goals of time, delivery and budget constraints. This may be a bit off the requirements blog norm, but worth the mention. There has been a change in the market where the ROI (Return on Investment) is not a requirement in the eyes […]

While we discuss the ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion mandate, many people are questioning the value of such a change. Questioning change is a good thing, but by now we all know that updating from an outdated 1970s code set to a more modern 1990s code set is critical for providers to be accurately compensated for […]

What would healthcare services delivery gain by developing, integrating, and implementing an intricate and complex structural information systems language unique to healthcare? The impending and ever-evolving updates to healthcare regulations and delivery present an opportunity to assess communication standards and information exchange. Similar to existing programming languages, healthcare and information technology professionals can begin to […]

In a recent article by John Lynn, he explains that ACOs are a good idea, but physicians can influence the outcomes and not control the outcomes. In my earlier blog I started to explain that ACO success and longevity will depend on changing patient behavior. This starts with the physicians. For decades, patients, and some […]

Choosing your clearinghouse or VAN is a very important step, especially if you are in healthcare. In healthcare you need to make sure they are HIPAA compliant, which means they will be able to handle all the mandated transaction sets. Other industries have different requirements. Whichever clearinghouse you choose, you need to make sure they […]

Since Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10), the healthcare industry is still trying to figure out the scope and the impact […]

I started my career building training systems for the US Navy. Since then I have worked in Aviation, Finance, Logistics, Education, Telecommunications and Healthcare. I can honestly say the healthcare industry is the thriftiest group of people from this list. Healthcare is a market with so much money pouring through, this seems like it cannot […]

About a year ago I blogged, “Will we be reading in 2011 ACOs partner with large carriers?” I am hearing that carriers are staying away from ACOs and are not planning on partnering. What have you heard? Was my assumption incorrect in 2011?

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 […]

My colleague Azam Zaidi and I talked about Perficient’s Health BI solution that’s ONC Certified for Meaningful Use Stage 2 & ACO reporting with Microsoft’s Steve Aylward and EHR TV’s Ann Fishman at the HIMSS12 conference.  Health BI is built leveraging SharePoint and SQL Server.   We also discussed how we are seeing increased interest […]

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. […]