Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

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 […]

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 […]

The future of healthcare:

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 […]

Providers are increasing their reliance on cloud technology to better address organizational hiccups and bottlenecks. Why? Because cloud technology allows resources to be accessed on demand, which results in a more effective and efficient work force, stronger operations and better customer care. It is a low-cost option that blows the competition out of the water. […]

In my February blog, I wrote about basic BI categories so we could assess our BI environment. If you recall our BI categories were as follows: Type I – Reporting and Query tool sets Type II – Analytic tool sets Type III – Predictive Modeling tool sets Now, we can gather some facts to measure […]

Cindy O’Neill from Microsoft interviewed Perficient’s Martin Sizemore at HIMSS 2012 on accountable care, meaningful use, mobility, social media, cloud, portals and business intelligence solutions.

I have seen Business and System Analysts (SAs) get involved in various ways throughout the SDLC process. On one hand, Systems Analysts join forces with Business Analysts to gather business requirements and are required to approve the business requirements specification (BRS). The two work as a team with the business to understand the process, develop […]

Several of the organizations that represent some of the many stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system have turned up the volume against ICD-10, yet again. Some of the arguments against it are that there’s too much of a burden due to compliance work already being done on other directives and some have also exclaimed that […]

My neighbor, a physician, installed an EMR this year to qualify for Meaningful Use. He has given up the clipboard in favor of a laptop to expedite data entry into this EMR. He has also give up looking his patient’s in the eye while doing rounds. Instead, he’s heads down, keying data into the laptop […]

Currently, information systems process a range of healthcare data, inclusive of diagnostic, procedural, public health and research, which are streamlined for efficient processing and storage of data. However, the dynamic evolution of healthcare prevention, treatment and standardization is now merging various key objectives into a conglomerate of healthcare delivery. Chronic and acute clinical practices are […]

The Stage 2 Meaningful Use objectives defined in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act may be the best first step toward more robust healthcare provider analytics and reporting. However, the beauty of these tools is not limited to meeting regulatory mandates alone. These data analysis and reporting requirements can usher […]