By David Meyers MD – Making New Year’s resolutions is a lot easier than keeping them, whether vowing to eat healthier, exercise more, or spend less time online. Ultimately, success is a two-step process.
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By Alex Meshkin – What is “intelligent decision automation”? And why is it the future? Intelligent decision automation is a term used in some industries. It combines artificial intelligence (AI) with workflow automation and has the power to change the way business is done in nearly every sector of the economy.
By Lisa Gouin – Speaking as someone who was a practice manager for 15 years, this is perhaps one of the most mentally demanding positions in our country today. That being said, it may also be one of the most rewarding should you choose to positively embrace the current transformation as we head into a new era of practicing healthcare.
By Mike Miranda – The healthcare system is taking full advantage of Business Intelligence tools, such as Data Discovery Software. This newer generation of BI tools is dramatically empowering healthcare facilities around the world to aggressively forge ahead with ultra-enhanced efficiency and performance at macro and micro-levels, alike.
By John Kelly & Jay Sultan – Between the payer consolidations, the long-awaited transition to ICD-10 and the shift toward value-based care, healthcare saw major changes begin to take hold in 2015. Coming off the momentum of the previous year, we can expect even more – especially as providers begin to take on more and more risk.
By Chuck Deckert & Neil Treister MD – As payment for healthcare services continues to shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, significant decisions loom for physician-based groups and other healthcare organizations. We believe that the clinical integration of HIT systems is the most effective path to address the inevitable payment shift and facilitate effective population health management.
By Alex Meshkin – Just over a year ago, in his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative. During the 2016 State of the Union Address, Obama announced the “Cancer Moonshot” to cure cancer, with Vice President Biden at the helm.
By William Hersh MD – I wrote recently that one of my concerns for data science is the Big Data over-emphasis on one of its four Vs, namely volume. Since then, I was emailing with Dr. Shaun Grannis and other colleagues from the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
Healthcare in the real world doesn’t stop at the state line. Indiana and Ohio, through two of the nation’s largest health information exchanges, are demonstrating the ability to follow the footprint of the patient across the region through the digital exchange of information across communities, states and technology systems.