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Payers in the Patient Value Chain – Can We Do Better?
I am very fortunate to have excellent healthcare insurance, with one of the country’s largest health plans, through my husband’s employer. My coverage is also one of the first new value-based purchasing plans in the country. How I got a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, HIMSS Events, HIMSS13, Patient-Centered Systems
Tagged C&BI, EHRs, electronic health records, health IT, HIMSS13, payer
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Deriving Value from Health IT: Unity Health
Unity Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving nearly 95,000 underserved residents in 30 sites throughout Washington, DC, discovered that it was able to increase revenue by being smarter about utilization of existing staff, rather than by bringing in … 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
Deriving Value from Health IT: Mount Sinai’s Story
By Jonathan French, Director, Healthcare Information Systems, HIMSS HIMSS Davies Award Winner Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSMC) in New York has always been regarded as one of the top learning hospitals in the country; however, its use of paper charting … Continue reading
Coastal Medical Realizes ROI with EHR Implementation
Medical practices across the nation are achieving success with Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations! One example is Coastal Medical; a physician owned practice based in Providence, Rhode Island, a recipient of a 2012 Ambulatory HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence.
Does Implementing Health IT Add Value?
by Rod Piechowski, HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Does implementing health IT add value to a hospital? Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) answers that question with a resounding “yes!” This HIMSS Davies Award winner has improved overall safety, quality and effectiveness … Continue reading
The Promise of Health IT
On Friday January 11, both the New York Times and the Washington Post cited a new Health Affairs commentary from RAND researchers, “What It Will Take To Achieve The As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises of Health Information Technology.” The press coverage focused on … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT News and Developments, HIMSS News and Developments, Interoperability & Standards, Patient-Centered Systems, Value of Health IT
Tagged Connectathon, Davies Award, EHR, EHRs, EMRAM, health information exchange, health information technology, health IT, HIMSS Analytics, interoperability, meaningful use, RAND
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Where Are You On The Voyage to Meaningful Use?
There are more than 5,300 civilian hospitals in the U.S., and around 700,000 physicians. Many are expending a great deal of time, effort, expense, and blood sweat & tears towards becoming meaningful users of EHRs. Are you one of them?
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An ACO of One: My Own Responsibilities as a Patient in an Accountable Care Model of Healthcare
It was on a blustery Dec. 28 afternoon, in the midst of the first row of the second box of chocolates, that I realized that it was time for the annual ritual of announcing my new year’s resolutions to my … Continue reading




