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Business Intelligence

Healthcare providers are utilizing business intelligence solutions to analyze data such as revenue, staff performance and efficiency of operations. BI solutions, often manifested as informational dashboards, are increasingly included in hospital information systems and integrated with enterprise electronic health records.

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Health IT Venture Fair targets up-and-coming HIT vendors, hot trends
February 20, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
The economy might not be filling everyone's wallets these days, but the landscape for venture capital firms looking to invest in healthcare has never been hotter.
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New tool tackles low health literacy
February 14, 2012 | Betsy Caron
Health literacy is about more than a person’s ability to read and write. The growing need to obtain, process and understand basic health information affects Americans of all education levels, and new tools are emerging in order to improve the readability of complicated medical documents.
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GE Healthcare, Microsoft name their new company
February 13, 2012 | Mike Miliard
GE Healthcare and Microsoft have announced senior executives and the name of their joint health IT venture, which was announced in December. The new company, called Caradigm, is expected to launch in the first half of this year.
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eHealth Initiative releases recommendations for accountable care
February 10, 2012 | Diana Manos
The eHealth Initiative (eHI) issued a report on Thursday, providing health IT recommendations to support accountable care organizations.
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Premier, Verisk Health offer hospitals data for care improvement
February 2, 2012 | Mike Miliard
The Premier healthcare alliance has joined with Verisk Health, which develops risk assessment and decision analytics technology, to offer data to hospitals and health systems meant to help better measure the health of their communities and develop new care models.
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Blue KC goes for new master patient index
January 31, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City will roll out a new enterprise master patient index that will enable the insurer to meet new demands for comprehensive, aggregated patient data in the health information exchange environment.
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Analytics and the future of healthcare
January 30, 2012 | Peter Horner and Atanu Basu
Market-driven reform already shifting emphasis from volume to value as industry leaders weigh in on what's next.
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Neupert to join Brailer's Health Evolution Partners
January 26, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Former Microsoft Health Solutions Group executive Peter Neupert will join Health Evolution Partners, a venture capital firm launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, as an operating partner.
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AMA beefs up practice management website
January 11, 2012 | Diana Manos
The American Medical Association unveiled Wednesday a redesigned website for its Practice Management Center, featuring a new layout that is easier to navigate and faster to use.
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Can’t stop thinking about tomorrow
January 10, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Because our cover story by Mike Miliard this first month of 2012 explores what healthcare IT might look like a short five years from now, we decided to put our Newsmaker spotlight on a physician who can’t seem to stop thinking about the future, even as he disavows the title “futurist.”
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6 ways to use business intelligence software
January 9, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
With the onslaught of health IT initiatives such as meaningful use, ICD-10, and ACOs, healthcare organizations can have a hard time keeping up. But one type of software can make a positive impact in a number of different ways, said Fred Pennic, founder of HIT Consultant and senior advisor at Aspen Advisors.
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Nemours puts cloud technology to work for EMR training
January 9, 2012 | Mike Miliard
The Nemours children's healthcare system is using cloud technology from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Saba to enable enterprise-wide learning and compliance with its Epic electronic medical record system.
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Improve care quality, coordination, and revenue with Apixio Community Search
February 14, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Studies show that more than 60% of key clinical patient information resides within narrative text or scanned documents, effectively hidden from care providers and mission-critical care or payment systems. Frequently, health care records are widely dispersed and duplicated across many data silos in multiple forms and structures. Therefore, it is becoming more difficult for healthcare systems to efficiently leverage patient data to meet specific patient and quality care objectives. With physician revenues increasingly tied to achieving quality or cost goals, it is critical to apply insights derived from analysis of clinical information. View this webinar to learn how using Apixio’s intelligent information mining and retrieval within clinical workflow tools, such as electronic health records, can effectively use the entire patient record to optimize care coordination, quality and safety, as well as provider revenue.
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Providers' Perceptions: Business Intelligence and Analytics in Healthcare
January 19, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Billian's HealthDATA and Porter Research will present findings of a primary market research study highlighting providers' perceptions of business intelligence and analytics solutions - their needs, challenges and adoption strategies. The study explores technologies being utilized today; as well as providers' requirements for the future that will better enable their organizations to drive strategic initiatives to improve quality of care, contain costs and meet impending and evolving healthcare reform initiatives.
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Healthcare Facilities & IT Management Trends: How Network-Based Public Address Improves the Bottom Line
January 3, 2012 | White Papers
The efficient management of healthcare facilities has always presented challenges between delivering technology that meets the needs of staff and increases efficiencies, while contributing to the overall healing environment. Increasingly, the Healthcare Facilities Manager and IT Manager roles are beginning to converge, becoming the pivotal point where infrastructure and information technology come together. This paper reviews the top four trends in healthcare facilities management and how IT plays a key role.
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Using HIE to Solve Financial, Outreach, and Strategic Challenges
November 23, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
This webinar will explore how Healthcare organizations are seeking the right approaches to dealing with the financial, strategic and outreach challenges associated with interoperability and health information exchange.
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Engaging Patients Online: How Hospitals Can Reach More Patients with Digital Marketing
November 8, 2011 | White Papers
According to Pew Internet Research, 88% of consumers use the Internet to make health decisions. However, few healthcare delivery organizations are investing in integrated online marketing strategies that could amplify the quality of care delivered and boost patient recruitment and loyalty. Rethink the role your hospital’s online presence will play in recruiting new patients, maintaining loyalty and fulfilling the hospital’s brand promise. This white paper discusses the challenges - and the rewards - of developing stronger relationships with patients by creating an online content management ecosystem and social media presence.
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Lawson Analytics for Healthcare: Minimize waste, manage expenses and enhance your ability to deliver quality patient care
October 17, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Do you ever ask, "What is my relationship between staffing and patient wait times or incidents?" "Where are opportunities to standardize supplies to reduce costs?" "How does length of stay impact service line profitability?" When it comes to your healthcare organization, you need answers that reveal where you can minimize waste, manage expenses and enhance your ability to deliver quality patient care. View this webinar to learn how analytics for healthcare can help you simplify access to timely information across your organization, deliver accurate information and support faster decision-making and control critical areas of spend so you can focus on improving patient care.
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Simplifying Medicare Cost Reporting through the use of Report Analytics
September 2, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The purpose of the Web seminar is to discover how Bon Secours Charity Health System is using Monarch technology to simplify the process for developing the annual Medicare Cost Report. A specific focus will be how to prepare exhibit 11 (worksheet A.).
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Business Needs Drive Demand for Information Management Systems at Healthcare Provider Organizations
August 26, 2011 | White Papers
The challenge facing healthcare organizations is how to manage and distribute the information. This whitepaper describes how organizations are dealing with information and data management demands to meet decision making and compliance needs.
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Reducing HAIs and Improving Infection Preventionist Workflow with Real-Time Clinical Surveillance
August 5, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Please join us for an inside look into how with a clinical surveillance and reporting tool your facility can easily identify, manage and prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
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Sisters of Mercy Implements Changes to Improve Service Quality
July 1, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Service management solutions facilitate a business process transformation that fosters a culture of productivity and continuous improvement.
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Care Episodes & Bundled Payment: Building and Automating Your Strategy
June 10, 2011 | White Papers
Hundreds of initiatives for care episodes are already underway in the U.S., relying on myriad combinations of provider types, legacy systems, and techniques. No single system on the market has the perfect solution across all areas. Bundling payments can reduce the cost of care by significantly reducing duplicative services, refocusing practice on collaboration across providers and rewarding quality outcomes. Learn more about automating major care process components by encompassing episode identification and definition as well as payment determination and timing.
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Images Everywhere: Hunterdon's Plan for Medical Image Interoperability
June 7, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Peer-to-peer insight into a hospital CIO's 3-stage plan for system-wide interoperability and central repository for medical images, featuring Glenn Mamary, VP/CIO of Hunterdon Healthcare System, and Terry McCauley, Chief Healthcare Architect for Comport. Mamary will provide insight into his strategies, including the challenges and opportunities he faces. McCauley will discuss the underlying architectures that support Mamary's plans. This conversation will be highly valuable for those planning to embark on medical imaging projects.
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Using ITSM Tools to Improve Effectiveness of a Service-oriented Service Desk
January 25, 2012 | Scott Ruehle
In order for a service-oriented approach to succeed at becoming part of the department or organizational culture, there will have to be an eventual recognition by management, if not leaders, of what services you provide.
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Six keys to creating a service-oriented culture in healthcare IT
January 24, 2012 | Scott Ruehle
Service oriented culture. The very mention of the phrase can cause a variety of reactions in people ranging from the ambiguity of “I think I know what Service is…” to the eye-rolling “Oh, great – another buzzword that we are going to have to suffer through until the next one” mindset.
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The Joy of Success
December 27, 2011 | John Halamka
2011 was a hard year filled with Meaningful Use (including many upgrades to certified systems or self-certification), 5010 (the deadline for upgrading billing systems is January 1, 2012), accelerating compliance demands, new security threats, rapidly evolving technologies, and unprecedented demand for new projects driven by the consumerization of IT.
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The Time is Ripe for Healthcare IT Start Ups (Part 1)
December 9, 2011 | Jennifer Dennard
With daily news of healthcare mergers and acquisitions coming left and right, it's no surprise that start-ups are also finding firm footing in the industry right now.
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HIMSS Leaders & Innovators excites C-suite execs 
November 22, 2011 | Mike Miliard
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
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The New Metrics for CIO Success
November 1, 2011 | John Halamka
When I began my career as a CIO in 1997, success was function of the basics - email delivery, network connectivity, and application functionality. In 2011, CIO success is much more complex to measure.
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Healthcare IT Entrepreneurs Think Outside the Financing Box
October 11, 2011 | Jennifer Dennard
Big ideas are often hampered by small budgets. In the world of healthcare, the drawing board is often littered with cast-away notes for projects that never saw the light of day due to lack of funding.
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The unsung benefits of HIT dashboards
October 7, 2011 | Shawn Curtiss
Hospitals and health systems are more technically proficient than ever, as they should be. Yet with all these enabling technologies, many healthcare organizations are still plagued by inefficiencies, lackluster quality scores and uncontrolled costs. Why?
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Trickle Down Health or Health 2.0 Impressions
October 6, 2011 | John Moore
Another year, another Health 2.0 under the belt. This being the fourth time attending it is interesting to see how this event and its participants have evolved.
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From Health 2.0 in San Francisco
September 28, 2011 | David Harlow
This post comes to you from the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. The main conference kicks off today, but it has been preceded by a week of code-a-thons and a variety of other events, including HealthCamp and the four-track pre-conference.
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The value of care coordination in ACOs: Twitter recap from HIMSS Virtual Forum
September 13, 2011 | Kelly Mehler
On Tuesday, Harry Reynolds, Jr., director of Industry Transformation at IBM Global Healthcare, presented attendees at the HIMSS Virtual Events Forum with his "Value of Care Coordination in ACOs" presentation. Here is a Twitter recap of the lecture.
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3 Trends Impacting the Growth of Texas Medical Real Estate
August 22, 2011 | James Ellis and Aaron Razavi
As a booming state in many aspects, it's no surprise that Texas is also a leading state in new hospital construction and renovation.
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MedTech Media Announces the Launch of PhysBizTech
January 6, 2012 | Industry News Release
Online publication will provide business and technology intelligence to small and medium sized physician group practices
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BCA lands $8M contract for IT, stat work at CDC
June 16, 2011 | Industry News Release
Atlanta-based Business Computer Applications, Inc. (BCA) has been awarded an $8 million dollar task order to provide IT and statistical support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
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QlikView to Power Largest Database of Mental Health Information in the World for Centerstone Research Institute
June 2, 2011 | Healthcare IT News Staff
QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery - user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that its customer Centerstone Research Institute (CRI), a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare delivery through the integration of research and information technology, is expanding its QlikView deployment to make significant progress toward finding a cure for mental illness and addiction disorders.
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Allscripts president joins Medidata board
June 1, 2011 | Industry News Release
Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced the election of Lee Shapiro to its board of directors. Shapiro is president of Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), the leading global provider of electronic health records and other technologies essential to creating a Connected Community of Health.
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Saratoga Hospital gets bullish on reporting
May 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
Exploring the potential of Interbit Data's report distribution software, NetDelivery, Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, NY, has discovered numerous applications, enabling the speed of automated information sharing across its organization and satisfying the diverse report requirements of multiple departments.
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GE Licenses PeriGen Solution to Enhance Decision Support
May 19, 2011 | Industry News Release
GE Healthcare, a leader in perinatal solutions, and PeriGen, Inc., have united to build upon the decision support and monitoring capabilities of GE’s top-rated Centricity* Perinatal suite.
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The Physicians Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant to Health Leads
May 12, 2011 | Industry News Release
The Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to advance the work of practicing physicians and improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans, awarded a $1 million dollar grant to Health Leads, an organization devoted to helping vulnerable families by arranging for college volunteers to partner with physicians in hospitals across the country.
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Visual Healthcare Corp. Signs Deal for Enhanced Lab Application
May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
Visual Healthcare Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ OTC: VSHC) announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Sygenics Life Sciences Software (Sygenics LSS) to market a 2nd generation of Lab Automation applications to serve the scientific community. This allows researchers to replace paper-based scientific records and paper-based scrapbooks with more dependable and secure electronic storage capabilities, as well as the ability to instantaneously share information with other scientists of their choice.
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CareCloud and Xpress Technologies Partner Make Practice and Patient Management Easy for Urgent Care Facilities
May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
CareCloud, the company modernizing healthcare management with powerful cloud-based software and services, and Xpress Technologies, leading provider of physician and nursing documentation, have partnered to launch a combined EMR and practice management solution for urgent care facilities and hospital emergency rooms. The solution offers integration of EMR with daily operations - improving patient flow, decreasing wait time and alleviating stress for busy physicians and nurses.
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Healthcare Staffing Shortage Poll: Rough Waters Ahead ASQ Experts Share Quality Concerns, Advice
May 3, 2011 | Industry News Release
More fragmented and uncoordinated healthcare may be on the horizon thanks to a growing shortage of U.S. healthcare workers. That’s the message from a new poll of healthcare quality experts conducted by ASQ, the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts.
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Banner Health Selects Phytel to Drive Better Health Outcomes in Arizona Medical Group
May 2, 2011 | Healthcare IT News Staff
The 250-physician Banner Arizona Medical Group (BAMG) has selected Phytel, the industry leader in automated, physician-led health improvement, to help the group develop its population health management program and improve patient outcomes. BAMG, which is part of Banner Health, a not-for-profit healthcare system with 23 hospitals in seven states, plans to roll out Phytel’s Proactive Patient Outreach and appointment reminder services to primary care doctors and specialists in all of its sites.
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Hartford Hospital Boosts Early Discharge Rate with Business Intelligence Solution from Carefx
April 21, 2011 | Healthcare IT News Staff
Hartford Hospital, an 867-bed regional teaching hospital and referral center in Connecticut, has increased its early discharge rate, a metric hospitals use to manage bed utilization, nearly three-fold by offering its clinicians access to a business intelligence (BI) dashboard from Carefx, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions.
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