Physician Documentation: How to Sell it Get it Done

Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO, New York Hospital Queens. Full electronic physician documentation can facilitate Meaningful Use and take a healthcare organization one step closer to full adoption of the […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 45: Population Management

Karen Cabell, DO, CMIO, and Chris Stevens, CIO, Billings Clinic. Dr. Cabell and Chris present the Billings Clinic's journey towards effective population management utilizing Cerner's Clinical Information System, Disease Management […]

Using the Voluntary Universal Patient Identifier System

Barry Hieb, M.D., Chief Scientist, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc., Sponsor of the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier Project. Accurate patient identification is a prerequisite for the information exchange envisioned as part […]

Inaugural HCCI Health Care Cost and Utilization Report

Carolina Herrera, Research Director, Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). Carolina reviews the first-ever report using health plans' claims data from HCCI: the nation's largest private insurers show that prices, not […]

Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals – 2012

Jeff Christoff, Principal, Tom Foley, Principal, and Michael Janis, Senior Manager, Benchmarking Center, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Consolidating operations into a shared services model has been popular in many industries for […]

Natural Language Processing – Today and Tomorrow

Melissa Rubel, RHIA, Product Manager, OptumInsight, describes how NLP is helping hospitals overcome the challenges they face today - fragmented healthcare, labor shortages and diversity in clinical documentation - while […]

Getting it Right on Privacy and Security

Jared Rhoads, Senior Researcher, and Owen Pate, Healthcare Risk and Compliance Executive, CSC's Global Institute for Emerging Practices. Achieving excellence in privacy and security is essential to care delivery, yet […]

ONC Online Guide: Unintended Consequences of EHRs

Michael I. Harrison, PhD, Sr. Social Scientist, Organizations & Systems Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Spencer S. Jones, PhD, Associate Information Scientist […]

Business Intelligence: A Wave is Coming

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS. More than half of the providers KLAS recently spoke with said that they plan to replace or purchase a business intelligence […]