Health Catalyst

Health IT Business News – October 13, 2016

Business news from Health Catalyst, Healthegy, 3M Health Information Systems, Verily Life Sciences, Wolters Kluwer Health, Emmi Solutions, MTBC, Gulf Coast Billing Inc., Parallax Health Sciences, Inc., QOLPOM, Inc., US CareNet, Medfusions, GE Healthcare, Core Solutions, Inc., Excelsior.




Health IT Appointments and Hires

Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.




Survey Says Fewer Than 2 in 10 Hospitals Regularly Use Patient-Reported Outcomes

72% of hospitals with limited or no Patient-Reported Outcomes Tracking say they will implement it within 1-3 years. CMS recently began using a new yardstick to calculate how much providers should be paid: a patient’s own view of their health. First incorporated into a new CMS program designed to lower the cost of knee and hip replacements, patient-reported outcomes, or PROs, may soon become far more widespread.


Best and Top Lists in our List this Week

Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing, top #HIT100, best hospitals, Most Wired Hospitals, best value Dual MBA & Health Management Degrees, best places to work, best work perks.