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 […]

Impacts from the Election

Paul Keckley, Ph.D., Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Dr. Keckley examines the Affordable Care Act's implementation status, what to expect regarding the 2012 elections, why […]

Leadership Lessons of Kilimanjaro

Ed Marx, SVP and CIO, and Elizabeth Ransom, MD, Chief Clinical Leader - North Zone, Texas Health Resources. After scaling smaller mountains, a team of officers and doctors at Texas […]

Advancing PMO Value in Healthcare

John A. Kocon, PMP, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives. CHI's journey to improve project performance began four years ago with the implementation of an IT-focused Project […]

Code Explosion: Leveraging Computer-Assisted Coding

Lorri Luciano, RHIA, Manager, HIM Product Hospital Specialist, OptumInsight. Lorri provides a detailed discussion of ICD-10 and coding; how this impacts hospitals and what you should be thinking about. She […]