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Health Insurance Marketplaces – Bringing Payers, Providers, and Technology Together in New Ways
Authorized by the Affordable Care Act, and starting in 2014, individuals and employees of small businesses will have access to affordable coverage through a new competitive private health insurance market – the Health Insurance Marketplace (formerly known as Healthcare Insurance … Continue reading
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Is Your Organization Strategically Intelligent?
by Sheldon Hamburger, Member, HIMSS Medical Banking & Financial Systems Committee, and President, The Aristone Group In his recent book titled, “Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations”(1) and related interview, author, Harvard Professor John R. Wells, makes the case that to be … Continue reading
Clinical and Business Intelligence Soars to New Heights
by Maxine Rand, MPA, BSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS, Member, HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee, and Director, Clinical Education, Practice & Informatics, Kaiser Permanente ThedaCare, a Wisconsin-based integrated health system, has a history of using LEAN principles to leverage technology and improve services … Continue reading
Practice in an Underserved Community Realizes the “Triple Aim” With Help of an EHR
Many components will be necessary to realize the Triple Aim goal of delivering better care for individuals, better health for populations, and reducing per-capita costs. One critical component to transforming healthcare is the primary care provider. One primary care physician … Continue reading
Clinical Business & Intelligence – An Urgent Request
by Thompson Boyd, MD, CPHIMS, Member of the HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee, and Physician, Tenet Health Systems The value of clinical & business intelligence (C&BI) is growing at a rapid pace. Deciphering patients at risk for a particular disease, after having an … Continue reading
Linking Payers and Providers to Improve Healthcare with IT
Recent healthcare policy changes, with ever advancing health and health information technologies, are facilitating this country’s movement toward the trifecta goal of improving the quality of patient care and outcomes while reducing costs. The payer community is an important and large … Continue reading




