Market for EMRs pegged at $1.6 billion by 2013
Market for EMRs pegged at $1.6 billion by 2013 http://ping.fm/WrpmSNEW YORK – The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is…
HCI addresses fraud, other health care cost issues – AHIP
While at the San Diego AHIP conference we interviewed HCI Insight, a company that promises to reduce the cost of health care by addressing fraud. HCI's loss calculators indicate that…
Protests outside AHIP Conference, San Diego
Today while entering the AHIP conference we encountered demonstrators who want the health care industry to change. We intereviewed Kathy Rallings, an employe at California Techers Association. The people *inside*…
Coordinated Health Care & Evidence Based Medicine, Aided by Social Media
Slate Magazine analyzed the Obama administration's forecasted $2 trillion in health care savings, then questioned which initiatives would provide true savings. The highest ranked initiatives were encouraging coordinated care… and…
Healthcare Business Models: Mayo Model Losing to McAllen?
An article in the New Yorker asks: Why does the border town of McAllen, Texas, spend more per person on health care—an average Medicare enrollee there costs $15,000 per year—than any U.S.…
Do Schools Kill Creativity? How do we apply creative thought in business and process improvement?
How will education play out in the future given the use of technology and information sharing? Children starting school in 2006 will be retiring in 2065. We aren't sure what…
Business Process Management Helps Companies Work Smart and Fast
"Streamlining administrative processes while continuing to invest in patient care is not mutually exclusive. Business process management, or BPM, can provide a clear view of processes across all systems, including billing, accounting and other legacy systems.
Process Excellence – Cost Savings and ROI in Health Care
According to a new Association for Information and Image Management (“AIIM”) of Silver Spring, MD study, the enterprise is not taking maximum advantage of business process management concepts.Surprisingly, only 3%…
Innovation & Social Media Inside the Enterprise
Recently, the Wall Street Journal noted that Facebook is transforming journalism. This is a great segway into something we've been watching for a while. Social media is not just for…
XBRL For SEC Reporting of Public Company Financial Data
As global accounting standards have started to converge, businesses are increasingly being required to understand and adopt XBRL as an enabling technology in enterprise wide disclosure initiatives being mandated by global financial governing bodies, such as the SEC’s Final Rule in the US and HMRC in the UK. Executing any company IT strategy requires knowledge, foresight and careful planning and XBRL is no exception.
Electronic Health Records and Patient Privacy, Medical Identity
Looking back on 2009 and changing perspectives: Don’t Rush eHRs Without Addressing Medical ID Theft was posted on ModernHealthcare.com by Martin Ethridgehill, formerly a provider training specialist with Blue Cross…