FEATURED CONTENT

• 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).

• Technology Partner Should Offer Rapid, Simple And Powerful Data Analytic Tools To Inspire Budgeting Confidence

  1/19/2017

  Healthcare IT platforms available to monitor and analyze purchased services spending data are limited. This is surprising considering up to 45 percent of a hospital’s or health system’s non-labor budget is spent on purchased services, meaning millions of dollars are being spent without the level of scrutiny it deserves. By Chris Heckler, CEO, Valify

• EDI Test Automation In Healthcare

  11/12/2015

  I have experienced many complicated problems needing to be solved throughout my career as a software testing engineer. There are always more bugs to find, more software to break, and more tools to learn. However, one of my greatest accomplishments has been in developing, building, and executing a KDT framework to enable test automation in healthcare. Basically, the company functions as a go-between for healthcare providers and payers, processing transactions and claims for each at a lower price. Because they provide this service for many different providers and payers, there are many different file formats and types needing to be configured and tested. By Daniel Schwartz, content strategist

• A Health Behavior Change Framework For Population Health Management

  9/1/2016

  The first white paper in this population health management series, Chronic Disease is Healthcare’s Rising Risk, reported on the health and financial burden associated with chronic disease, specifically the “rising-risk” and “high-risk” clinical population subgroups. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale

• What Does It Take To Earn Top Medicare Advantage Ratings?

  6/4/2019

  While healthcare leaders uniformly agree that transitioning to value is the way healthcare is going to be in the coming days, it is unclear to most how they can make the transition without negatively impacting their cost outcomes. In an industry which had primarily been fee-for-service based, healthcare organizations are facing immense pressure to innovate and adapt or risk their long-term viability.

• Documentation Improvement Helps Value-Based Purchasing

  8/11/2016

  I don’t believe it has ever been acceptable to simply look at Case Mix Index (CMI) alone as a measure of the impact of a Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program. By Dr. Jon Elion, MD, FACC and Founder/President, ChartWise Medical Systems