Category Archives: Patient-Centered Systems

Payers in the Patient Value Chain – Can We Do Better?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

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 →

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Connecting for Interoperability – Day 1 at the Connectathon

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

by Keith W. Boone, GE Healthcare This morning I woke up at 5 a.m. to head off to the IHE North American Connectathon.  Once again, engineers from  companies across the globe meet up in the basement of the Hyatt Regency in sunny downtown … Continue reading →

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Deriving Value from Health IT: Unity Health

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

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 →

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Practice in an Underserved Community Realizes the “Triple Aim” With Help of an EHR

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

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 →

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Deriving Value from Health IT: Mount Sinai’s Story

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

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 →

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Coastal Medical Realizes ROI with EHR Implementation

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

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.

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Does Implementing Health IT Add Value?

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

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 →

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The Promise of Health IT

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

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 →

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Where Are You On The Voyage to Meaningful Use?

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

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

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

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 →

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