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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Proposed 2014 HHS Budget Kind to Health I.T. Initiatives

Joseph Goedert | Apr 10

Federal spending levels for health information technology initiatives generally get a boost in the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed budget for fiscal year 2014.

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

New Rankings to Show Hospitals’ Depth of Patient Engagement

Joseph Goedert | Apr 08

Patient engagement and care coordination software vendor Axial Exchange has launched the Patient Engagement Index to rank hospitals in the United States in how deeply patients are involved in their treatment.

Consumer Health

Health Info Exchange

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Hospitals

Big Data Revolution, Part 1

Steve Miller, Co-Founder, OpenBI LLC | Apr 05

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, co-authored by Oxford professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Economist editor Kenneth Cukier, is destined to be one of the top business/analytics books of 2013.

Group Practices

Payers

Hospitals

Survey: Knowledge of Reform Varies, Particularly with Insurance Exchanges

Joseph Goedert | Apr 04

A telephone survey of 1,006 adults across the nation in March finds large numbers believe the health reform law will have major effect on their lives, but 90 percent of respondents don’t know when state health insurance exchanges to ease the comparing and buying of insurance will open.

Consumer Health

Payers

Policy & Regulation

President Obama’s Challenge: Map the Brain

Joseph Goedert | Apr 02

President Obama on April 2 launched a national public-private initiative to map the human brain, adding federal funds to private sector efforts as was done to map the human genome.

Disease Management

Medical Imaging

Decision Support

Consumer Health

EHR

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Partners In Accountability

Gary Baldwin | Apr 01

Providers and payers forging collaborative relationships under the ACO banner face formidable I.T. challenges.

Chronic Care

Data Repositories

Disease Management

Decision Support

Group Practices

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Coding

Electronic Data Interchange

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Policy & Regulation

My Biggest Mistake: HIT Leaders Come Clean

Joseph Goedert | Apr 01

CIOs talk about professional stumbles and explain the lessons they learned from them.

EHR

Systems Integration

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Practice Management

Disease Management

Chronic Care

CMS Dashboard Makes Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Available

Joseph Goedert | Apr 01

A new dashboard from CMS makes available government data on the prevalence of multiple chronic conditions that many Medicare beneficiaries have, the services they require and how much Medicare spends on chronic treatments.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Disease Management

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

How are ACOs Doing?

Gary Baldwin | Apr 01

Earlier this year, CMS announced some 450 participants in its bundled payment program. If nothing else, the announcement gave a shot in the arm to the accountable care movement.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Disease Management

EHR

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

SAS Founder: Bright Future for Visual Data Analysis

Gary Baldwin | Mar 28

Emerging visualization tools will offer unprecedented access to data and streamline decision-making, says Jim Goodnight, the founder and CEO of data analytics firm SAS.

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Vendor News

Caradigm Replaces its HIE Product with Orion Health

Joseph Goedert | Mar 28

Caradigm, a joint venture company of Microsoft and GE Healthcare, will discontinue marketing its health information exchange software and will resell under a private label the HIE platform of Orion Health.

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Vendor News

California Readies Large Demonstration of Coordinated Care

Joseph Goedert | Mar 28

The California Department of Health Care Services has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to conduct a large demonstration program to improve care to senior and disabled beneficiaries dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Consumer Health

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

NCQA Launches Medical Home Recognition Program for Specialists

Joseph Goedert | Mar 26

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has introduced a patient-centered medical home recognition program for physician specialists outside of primary care.

Group Practices

Disease Management

Chronic Care

EHR

Survey Examines Cultural Differences in Physician Practices

Joseph Goedert | Mar 25

A survey of more than 2,200 physicians exploring 14 cultural attributes shows how variables in the attributes can affect physician satisfaction and whether a practitioner believes he or she is a good fit in the organization.

Group Practices

Hospitals

Decision Support

Enhancements Coming to Physician Compare Web Site

Joseph Goedert | Mar 21

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is creating a new CAHPS survey to augment its consumer-oriented Physician Compare Web site with quality and patient satisfaction scores.

Payers

Group Practices

Decision Support

Consumer Health