Health information exchanges are becoming increasingly important for population health management and clinical analytics in an era of interoperability.
With the tight focus on EHR interoperability and...
Data sharing policies from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have made data analytics easier and more commonplace by increasing the sharing of information, say 65% of researchers studied in a poll...
Even more often than ICD-10, the phrase “information governance” was on everybody’s lips at the 2014 AHIMA Convention in San Diego this week. As the cornerstone of the American Health...
Researchers, clinicians, and health information management (HIM) professionals must all have a seat at the table when it comes to information governance, said Suzanne Paone, MBA, DHA, and Dilhari...
An EHR replacement can be a complicated and problematic proposition for physicians and administrative staff, but it poses an equal challenge for the health information management professional. Ensuring...
The transition to ICD-10 may have a negative impact on patient safety reporting and the subsequent perception of hospital quality, argues a new study in JAMIA this week, by producing erroneous...
Even the most enthusiastic data analytics advocate would be hard pressed to argue that the healthcare industry is on the cutting edge of adopting and leveraging data science techniques to solve some of...
There’s more to health information management than ICD-10 and SNOMED, and for providers who routinely deal with mental health disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs aren’t sufficient to ensure that health information is as complete, accurate, and consistent as it needs to be in order to ensure patient safety and...
While patient-generated health data provided by wearable wristbands and other devices holds great potential to change the way healthcare is delivered, patients may not be aware that they aren’t just...
The federal government produces enormous quantities of clinical and financial health data, but hasn’t done enough to be transparent with the wealth of information it is currently holding, argued Mary...
Hospitals looking to ramp up their offensive tactics when it comes to patient engagement may soon have an interesting new tool at their disposal: a care coordination and consumer engagement system...
With Kathleen Sebelius turning in her resignation as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after a rocky year overseeing the launch of Healthcare.gov, Congress is ready to fill the...
Patients suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma believe that the benefits of having access to their EHR data outweigh their concerns about patient privacy, according to a patient...
When it comes to using health IT to make improvements within a healthcare organization, clinical analytics often steals the limelight. Predictive risk scores, sepsis alarms, population health...
After announcing a nearly $100 million investment in connecting a series of research networks into a single, massive databank late last year, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is...
The Mayo Clinic has teamed up with a group of health IT investors, including Rock Health, to launch Ambient Clinical Analytics with more than a million dollars in seed funding and a mission to transform...
Healthcare’s thirst for data analytics is driving some very large investments for some very lucky companies, including Health Catalyst. The data warehousing and analytics firm just locked down $41...
Two big names are muscling their way into the informatics and health IT game this year as Royal Philips and General Electric both announce forays into the industry. GE recently announced its...
In consumer technology, trends are all about the next big thing. The most recent generation of cell phone with the coolest features will always attract buyers who need to have the latest and...
