by Brian Eastwood | November 26, 2015
The New Normal The functionality of Healthcare.gov and the state insurance exchanges has improved markedly since their near-disastrous roll outs in October 2013, but many companies nonetheless believe they can make the process of buying health insurance as consumer-friendly as other online shopping experiences. With the third year of open ...
by Jody Ranck | November 19, 2015
Managing Data Every mention of health data and data analytics comes with it a reference to data silos that get in the way of effective use of data analytics tools. With so-called big data tools like Hadoop we have the ability to do analytics at scale and with streaming data, ...
by John Moore lll | November 11, 2015
While the landmark health reform laws enacted in 2009 (HITECH Act) and 2010 (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) have begun transforming certain aspects of the US healthcare system, they have not had a meaningful impact on behavioral and mental health care delivery. Patients in need of these services already face ...
by Brian Eastwood | October 27, 2015
Happy is Productive The Affordable Care Act’s so-called “Cadillac tax” of high-priced employer insurance plans has drawn the ire of Presidential candidates, members of Congress, and the general public. All fear that the intentions of the tax – penalizing generous plans that let members receive costly healthcare services they don’t ...
by Jody Ranck | October 13, 2015
Relevance of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) to Clinical Practice A common storyline we are hearing these days is that physician adoption of clinical decision support tools and analytics in general is slow, often taking years to fully engage with new clinical decision support (CDS) systems. The concerns over clinician adoption are ...
by John Moore | October 01, 2015
Moving Forward Cerner’s annual user conference (CHC) last week gave us an opportunity to speak with Cerner executives and customers to gain insight on their current and future initiatives. Take-aways: > HealtheIntent is gaining momentum and displacing or overlaying competitors. > Strong pent-up demand for the HealtheIntent EDW. > Sales ...
by Naveen Rao | September 27, 2015
The Need for Reform A primary goal of insurance expansion under the Affordable Care Act was to improve access to healthcare. Yet as thousands of people are finding, simply having insurance coverage does not guarantee that ‘the doctor will see them now.’ Due to poorly managed provider directories, a significant ...
by Brian Murphy | September 22, 2015
Chilmark Bight After several years of circling the healthcare market, Salesforce finally announced its intent to formally enter the market this week with the announcement of Salesforce Health Cloud. Unlike other enterprise vendors who have jumped into this market, with Blue Ribbon advisory panels (Google Health), or series of acquisitions ...
