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• 3 Insights From Our Journey To NCQA Accreditation

  3/1/2019

  Healthcare organizations serving complex populations — such as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), mental health concerns, and substance use disorders — have some unique challenges. Key among them is ensuring that these individuals receive comprehensive care that aligns their behavioral health and physical health needs. That includes accounting for specific issues related to housing, transportation and other social determinants of health.

• Moving Data To Where It Needs To Be In Healthcare

  8/17/2016

  Napoleon is widely considered a brilliant leader and battle strategist. Yet, despite an arsenal of advantages including better arms, the regularity of higher force concentrations, and the superior chess-like maneuverability of his armies across European battlefields, Napoleon eventually fell.

• Building A Business Case For Modern Healthcare Analytics

  3/14/2017

  By now, most healthcare professionals are aware some form of analytics is necessary to help glean insight needed to make smart decisions. However, what’s less clear is exactly what type of analytics solution can drive the biggest impact. By Nora Lissy, RN, BSN, MBA, Director of Healthcare Information, Dimensional Insight

• Bending The Cost Curve: Are You Leaving Your Chips On The Table?

  9/7/2018

  Don't walk away from a process improvement project until you have put financial value around the expected gain and tied that back to your organization's key financial metrics. When you score a winning hand, use these methods to ensure that all those chips make it into your pocket.

• Prediction: Forgotten Physicians Continue To Struggle In 2018

  1/18/2018

  The future is bright for health IT in 2018 - unless you’re one of the many physicians who have grown deeply disillusioned with ever-changing healthcare policies, unfriendly technology, and an overwhelming number of administrative tasks – all of which interfere with the ability of clinicians to focus on the delivery of medicine.

• Optimizing EMRs To Lessen Administrative Burdens

  2/8/2019

  Despite the current emphasis on streamlining healthcare delivery, the administrative burdens placed on today’s healthcare providers—physicians, nurses, medical assistants and office staff—are heavier than they have ever been. Between managing diverse information coming into the organization, ensuring it ends up in the right place within the electronic medical record (EMR), correctly capturing every element of a patient encounter, and accurately coding it to support proactive and comprehensive care, providers have a lot of non-clinical tasks on their plates. Amid these competing priorities, they are also expected to deliver a consistent, compassionate patient experience and smoothly handle unexpected situations.