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 John Moore lll | October 26, 2015
Several years ago, at a similar CHC event in 2012, we had our first glimpse at Cerner’s HealtheIntent strategy. HealtheRegistries (previously known as SmartRegistries), a solution they co-developed with Advocate Physician Partners, was the first solution, which went GA in December 2013. Initial impressions were positive. Cerner correctly recognized that ...
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 ...
by John Moore lll | September 03, 2015
Salesforce formally entered the HIT market with Salesforce Health Cloud, a cloud-based “patient relationship management” (PRM) solution centered around a complete view of the patient with integrated data from electronic medical records (EMRs), wearables and more. The offering consists of a longitudinal patient record with software to support care coordination, ...
