Systems Integration

This section includes coverage on the many facets of the revenue cycle food chain for hospitals and physician group practices. Topics span insurance eligibility, charge capture, claims coding, claims submissions, claims clearinghouses, and back-end follow-up with insurance companies to rectify claims denials and resubmission requests.

Using Analytics to Support an ‘Ambulatory ICU’ Model

May 23

The Stanford Coordinated Care project puts sophisticated I.T. tools to the task of monitoring and treating difficult populations of patients.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Data Repositories

EHR

Hospitals

Disease Management

First Vendors Get Accredited for Direct Messaging Services

Joseph Goedert | May 22

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has accredited the first four vendors to meet newly developed best practices for providing secure messaging services using the Direct Project protocols.

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

EHR

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Get Ready for New HL7 Standards

Joseph Goedert | May 07

Health Level Seven International is well along in development of its next-generation integration standards, called Fast Health Interoperable Resources, or FHIR.

Health Info Exchange

EHR

Hospitals

Group Practices

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Biobank Program for Personalized Medicine Hits 25K Enrollees

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

Twenty-five thousand individuals now have enrolled in the Mount Sinai Biobank Program of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, the organization announced on April 29.

Data Repositories

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Hospitals

EHR

HIT Vendor Alliance Comments on Lifting Interoperability Barriers

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26

The CommonWell Health Alliance, announced in March and comprising a handful of health information technology vendors collaborating to cooperate on systems interoperability issues, has responded to a federal request for information on ways to advance interoperability and health information exchange.

Health Info Exchange

Policy & Regulation

Data Security

Payers

Vendor News

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Hospitals

Group Practices

EHR

Consumer Health

Allscripts Doubles Down on Care Coordination

Joseph Goedert | Apr 25

Physician and hospital software vendor Allscripts has introduced new software to support the enhanced care coordination across provider settings required under accountable care organizations and other value-based treatment/payment programs.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Disease Management

Health Info Exchange

EHR

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

HIT Vendor News Round-up

Joseph Goedert | Apr 19

Cleaner patient rooms and new alliances are among health information technology vendor announcements in recent days:

Disease Management

Payers

Vendor News

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Group Practices

Electronic Data Interchange

CHIME Comments to HHS on New Initiatives to Accelerate HIE

Joseph Goedert | Apr 18

As the federal government looks to further enhance the exchange of health information exchange, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives suggests the feds model new initiatives after some of their existing programs.

Policy & Regulation

Payers

Hospitals

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

EHR

Vendors Expand Connectivity with Integration Deals

Joseph Goedert | Apr 17

Two health information technology vendors serving ambulatory care have announced recent integration alliances.

Electronic Data Interchange

Group Practices

Decision Support

Hospitals

Health Info Exchange

Vendor News

Guess What? Health Care Data is More Secure in the Cloud

David Linthicum | Apr 10

Public cloud-based platforms are not good locations for health care data, correct? While that may sound right, turns out it’s wrong.

Data Security

Web Technology

Health Info Exchange

Getting Real Results with Clinical Desktop Virtualization

Apr 05

Getting Real Results with Clinical Desktop Virtualization

Explore the Benefits of Virtualization in Health Care.

Adoption of desktop virtualization in healthcare is expected to grow by 44% in 2013. In addition to enhancing clinical mobility and productivity, workstation or “desktop” virtualization can also result in a variety of other benefits including reduced storage costs, agility, improved reliability and enhanced security. To succeed in a virtualized environment, healthcare organizations need to rely on sophisticated storage solutions.

Read this eBook and get an close look at the benefits of desktop and other types of virtualization in the health care industry. You’ll also discover why healthcare organizations need powerful, integrated storage solutions to support virtualization.

Data Repositories

Data Security

Document Management

Electronic Data Interchange

Health Info Exchange

Mobile Technology

Web Technology

Wireless/Mobile

ONC Funds HIE Governance Work

Joseph Goedert | Apr 04

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has provided funds to two organizations to continue their work to develop governance programs for health information exchanges.

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Group Practices

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Stimulus

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

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Practice Management

Disease Management

Chronic Care

UCLA Trying to Predict Rising Brain Pressure

Joseph Goedert | Mar 13

The neurosurgery department at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles is testing software to predict increasing brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Decision Support

Disease Management

Vendor News