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• Healthcare Organizations Need To Think Big When It Comes To Cloud

  9/25/2018

  The fact is, we’re living in what is now being called a multi-cloud world—one that is brought on by the convergence of market drivers with organizational initiatives that are fueling digital transformation. A few that top the list include building out the connected health ecosystem through the expansion of mobile and IoT devices and Big Data for genomics and molecular medicine collaborations. The initiatives, when coupled with new value-based care initiatives, bring together both internal and external players in the industry through mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

• Revenue Cycle Management: The Key To Achieving Success Under MACRA

  5/31/2017

  The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) aims to improve physician and other clinician payments by changing the way Medicare incorporates quality measurement into payments. At its core, the Act repeals the sustainable growth rate and authorizes the U.S. Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) to implement value-based incentives. Regardless of MACRA’s original intent to improve healthcare for both patients and physicians, the new legislation can result in negative implications on practices — particularly as it relates to revenue cycle management.

• The Illegible Medical Record: Are EHRs Helping?

  8/26/2014

  Electronic health records help solve some problems, but they aren’t the panacea needed to clear up illegible chart notes sent to pharmacies. By Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP

• Predictive Analytics And Business Intelligence: What Every Provider Needs In Its Labor Management Arsenal

  11/10/2014

  To effectively manage labor in healthcare today, organizations need to be proficient in a number of areas. First and foremost, they need to have the right strategies and methodologies to reduce variances in practice and eliminate wasteful redundancies. The right strategies set the foundation for predictable and sustainable results. Once that is established the conversation can open to the elements everyone usually wants to talk about first: technology, specifically predictive modeling, analytics, and business intelligence. By Chris Fox, CEO, Avantas

• Case Study: Munson Medical Improves Patient Safety With Wireless Monitoring

  4/13/2010

  Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is widely used to administer pain-control medication. But as the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) reports, the available evidence suggests a significant and underappreciated risk of serious injury from PCA in the post-operative period, including a low but unpredictable incidence of respiratory events in young healthy patients. By CareFusion
• HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check

  4/16/2019

  In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).