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LAS VEGAS -- A new survey from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in partnership with the Personal Connected Health Alliance claims 52 percent of hospitals currently use three or more connected health technologies while 47 percent are looking to expand the connected health technologies they use.
The interview begins with the topic of interoperability because Epic has a reputation - among some circles - of being a "closed system." Is it a bad rap? It is, she says.
LAS VEGAS -- When Inova Health saw that Affordable Care Act initiatives for value-based care would cut 7 percent, or $220 million, out of the $3 billion health system's successful fee-for-service revenues, the northern Virginia provider knew it needed to change, said President and COO Mark Stauder.
LAS VEGAS - Rueben Devlin, CEO of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, sees full digitization as the future of physician efficiency and patient experience.
LAS VEGAS - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, legislators and others discuss ways to change current regulations to give rural hospitals technology that rivals what the large health systems have, according to Patrick Yount, director of HIT at the Colorado Rural Health Center.
LAS VEGAS - The key to creating a learning health system is to establish a technological framework for clinical study that engages patients at a more direct level, according to Thomas Carton, MD, director of health services research and principal investigator at REACHnet.
As the way hospitals and other healthcare providers get paid undergoes dramatic changes under value-based reimbursement, there is growing importance surrounding the revenue cycle operations. On Monday, HIMSS Media held its third Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, hosting a standing-room-only crowd at the HIMSS16 conference. Below are some of the insights shared on Twitter during that event.
Shawn Griffin, MD, chief quality and informatics officer for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Physician Network, posed a question Monday at the Volume to Value-based gathering at HIMSS16, illustrating what he says should be the key driver in any system's move from volume to value-based payment.
LAS VEGAS - Providers may be pleasantly surprised by new payment models when they learn how much they would have been paid had they participated, according to Rene Cabral-Daniels, CEO of the Community Care Network of Virginia.
LAS VEGAS - Health information exchange is an essential tool to support the transition to value-based payment models, according to Alex Baker of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who gave an overview of federal initiatives and how states, hospitals and physicians can benefit from the innovations, during HIMSS16 in Las Vegas.