Health Analytics


Data mining in health care is in its infancy, but it is a natural outgrowth of the EHR systems beginning to proliferate in the sector. Hospitals and group practices are mining data for many purposes, including identification of at-risk patients, trends in service line utilization, and improvement opportunities in the revenue cycle.


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NPRM for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Available on Feb. 23

Joseph Goedert | Feb 22
The Department of Health and Human Services has sent to the Federal Register two notices of proposed rulemaking for Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program.
Electronic Data Interchange
EHR
Policy & Regulation
Health Info Exchange
Hospitals
Group Practices

HDM to Host Health Analytics Event in July

Feb 22
Health Data Management is hosting the Healthcare Analytics Symposium & Expo, July 24-25 at the Hyatt McCormick Place in Chicago.
Chronic Care
Data Repositories
EHR
Group Practices
Hospitals
Payers

Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule Slated for Feb. 22

Joseph Goedert | Feb 20
On Wednesday, Feb. 22, federal officials are scheduled to discuss the Stage 2 electronic health records meaningful use proposed rule, and they hope the rule is available that morning.
Policy & Regulation
EHR
Stimulus
Vendor News
Chronic Care

Giving Providers a Head Start with ACOs

Gary Baldwin | Feb 20
As a first step in launching ACO projects, Anthem took three years of claims data and downloaded it to the respective databases of the groups ...
Health Info Exchange
EHR

Tenet Talks Attestation, Data Capture Challenges with Meaningful Use

Joseph Goedert | Feb 20
Medicaid attestation was an exercise in frustration, says Liz Johnson, R.N., vice president of applied clinical informatics at Tenet.
EHR

Multimedia Madness - The Unresolved Challenge for Records Management

Feb 17
As digital technology and mobile hardware have permeated the business world and continue to grow at staggering rates, a new challenge has emerged for legal, records management and compliance professionals: the multimedia file. Audio, video, image and app files have become as much a part of the corporate technology landscape as the text-based files we love so much.
EHR
Document Management
Wireless/Mobile
Mobile Technology

Survey: Patients Like EHRs, but Wish Security Was Better

Joseph Goedert | Feb 16
A new survey finds patients overwhelmingly believe electronic health records improve the quality of care, but are worried about security of their information.
Consumer Health
EHR
Data Security
Decision Support
Health Info Exchange
Group Practices

AHIMA: CMS Review No Excuse to Delay ICD-10

Joseph Goedert | Feb 15
The American Health Information Management Association in a statement reminds stakeholders that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has promised to review the timeline of ICD-10 compliance, not change it.
Coding
Electronic Data Interchange
EHR
Document Management
Policy & Regulation

New Cloud Platform, Apps from Optum

Joseph Goedert | Feb 15
The Optum technology unit of UnitedHealth Group, which includes the former Ingenix, has launched the beta version of a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate health information exchange and improved collaboration of care.
Data Security
Group Practices
Hospitals
Disease Management
Consumer Health
Health Info Exchange
Web Technology
Vendor News

CMS Clarification on ICD-10 Stance Coming Soon

Joseph Goedert | Feb 14
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expects soon to clarify a new commitment to re-examine implementation of the ICD-10 code sets.
Coding
EHR
Revenue Cycle Management
Policy & Regulation
Group Practices
Hospitals
Payers

ONC Project Query Health Starts Testing its Analytics Standards

Feb 14
The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT in September 2011 launched Query Health, an initiative to establish standards and services for distributed population health queries. Now, two Query Health leaders, Michael Buck and Rich Elmore, have written a column explaining the effort and its first pilot program in New York.
Data Repositories
Decision Support
EHR
Hospitals
Group Practices
Payers
Policy & Regulation

Insurers and Vendor Lumeris to Acquire NaviNet

Joseph Goedert | Feb 14
With the goal of serving accountable care organizations, three Northeast Blues plans and a data aggregation/analysis vendor will acquire NaviNet Inc., a health care transactions processing vendor. Terms of the acquisition, expected to close within 30 days, were not disclosed.
Electronic Data Interchange
Health Info Exchange
Policy & Regulation
Revenue Cycle Management
Disease Management
Payers
Vendor News
Decision Support
Hospitals
Group Practices
EHR

Name Unveiled for GE Healthcare/Microsoft Venture

Joseph Goedert | Feb 13
GE Healthcare and Microsoft Corp. have picked Caradigm as the new name for a joint venture announced in December.
Vendor News
Data Security
Chronic Care
Disease Management
Hospitals
Group Practices

eHealth Initiative Studies the I.T. of ACOs

Joseph Goedert | Feb 10
A new report from stakeholder advocacy group eHealth Initiative explores the health information technology infrastructure needed to support accountable care organizations.
Disease Management
Revenue Cycle Management
Health Info Exchange
Consumer Health
EHR
Policy & Regulation

New Content on HHS Consumer Web Sites

Joseph Goedert | Feb 08
Two agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services have introduced new Web-based health management tools for consumers.
Consumer Health
Disease Management
Decision Support
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation
Web Technology
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