Healthcare Center of Excellence

September 8, 2015
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Top Challenges to Analytics in Healthcare? Not Technology!

Category : Accountable Care Organizations Big Data Change Management Change Process Healthcare Analytics Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Leadership

A variety of challenges stand in the way of successfully implementing analytics in healthcare organizations. Not surprisingly, the top issues don’t always involve technology.

This finding became clear in a study conducted by the Healthcare Center of Excellence this summer, which sought to determine what are perceived to be the top challenges facing analytics.

The study reveals the importance of executive leadership skills in bringing about support of analytics and the extent to which findings from analytic efforts are incorporated into how organizations change and adapt. This aspect of leadership, while learnable, needs to happen quickly if organizations want to achieve the desired incomes from their forays into analytics.

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September 4, 2015
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Medical Informatics World 2016

Category : Big Data Change Management Healthcare Analytics Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Speaking Events

April 4-5, 2016, Boston, MA

Now in its fourth year, Medical Informatics World has become a must-attend industry event, uniting senior-level executives and industry leaders representing all the major contributors to a new era of healthcare. More than 400 providers, payers, technology providers, biomedical scientists, academic researchers, informaticists and national health organizations come together to discuss emerging trends and collaborations in health IT for improved outcomes in the healthcare ecosystem. Focused tracks allow the community to delve into the most pressing topics of cross-industry data sharing, population health, patient engagement, and clinical decision support. Keeping pace with the evolving industry, coverage has now expanded to include quantitative imaging and radiomics, predictive analytics and interoperability.

August 28, 2015
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Using data to move toward transparency: Six things health care providers can do

Category : Accountable Care Organizations Big Data Electronic Health Records Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation Uncategorized

With high-deductible health plans increasing in popularity, cost and accountability for outcomes will become more important to consumers seeking medical providers. Additionally, provider organizations managing risk-based contracts will have additional motive to increase transparency to earn trust and instill loyalty with patients.

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Do patients held for observation skew performance on quality measures?

Category : Accountable Care Organizations Healthcare General Uncategorized

Do patients held for observation skew performance on quality measures?

Just how much success have hospitals had in their efforts to prevent patients from returning soon after leaving? Perhaps not as much as reported, two physicians argue at the blog for health policy journal Health Affairs.

Why? Because Medicare patients who end up in hospital beds for observation technically do not count as repeat visitors.

August 25, 2015
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ACO Provider Management & Network Building Summit

Category : Speaking Events

Dec. 8-9: Data to Action: New Approaches to Use Data to Impact ACO Outcomes

ACO Provider Management & Network Building Summit

San Diego, CA

Register Here!

Join us for The 2015 ACO Provider Management & Network Building Summit for strategies to improve provider engagement, partnerships to multiply savings, strategies for better care coordination, embracing payment model changes, and much more!

We all know the importance of maintaining a high quality network of providers, maintaining a robust IT infrastructure, and improving care coordination for cost-saving profits. We also know that challenges will continue as the evolution of the ACO model adapts to meet all stakeholders’ expectations. However, the big question is HOW do you truly build and optimize your entire ACO network for continued growth and success?
Through in-depth research with a wide-array of quality thought leaders, we’ve carefully crafted an agenda that’s primed to be the ultimate ACO management conference!

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July 1, 2015
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Start With Champions, Not Antagonists – Like the Dancing Shirtless Guy

Category : Change Management Leadership

This article very interesting and contrary point of view towards leadership. Mr. Murphy is right on target though and his concepts are proven by watching how a dancing shirtless guy (see video below) creates a (change) movement. It’s uncanny how dead on he is. The ‘first follower’ would be the same as the champion. Enjoy.

In Change Management, Start With Champions, Not Antagonists

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June 15, 2015
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Social Leadership Lessons from a Man in a Bow Tie

Category : Leadership

In May, I attended the Integrate 2015 Conference sponsored by the West Virginia University’s Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program. This is the fifth year for this conference which has gotten better each year. I’ve been an adjunct professor in the program since 2008 and have attended all but one conference. This year featured many outstanding presentations on promotions, public relations, content marketing and so on. The presentations included speakers from Coca-Cola, SeaWorld, RCA Records and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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May 8, 2015
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Pioneer ACO Program Saves $384 Million, OK’d for Expansion

Category : Accountable Care Organizations

Medicare’s accountable care organization model has notched sufficient savings to meet the agency’s criteria for expansion to a larger population of beneficiaries.

The Pioneer ACO model, a controversial Medicare program geared to incent doctors and hospitals to improve quality and reduce costs and redundant care, in two years saved more than $300 per year for each of the 600,000 beneficiaries enrolled and is ready to be scaled up, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said Monday.

Pioneer ACO Program Saves $384 Million, OK’d for Expansion

May 6, 2015
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Cancer Centers, Epic to Tap Power of IBM Watson Supercomputer

Category : Big Data Electronic Health Records Healthcare Analytics Healthcare General Healthcare Transformation

A supercomputer like IBM’s Watson is needed to be able to analyze the large number of detailed records needed to “develop patient treatment protocols, personalize patient management for chronic conditions, and intelligently assist doctors and nurses by providing relevant evidence from the worldwide body of medical knowledge, putting new insight into the hands of clinical staff.” The key to the success would be able to share and analyze patient-specific data in real time, a part of the standard workflow. This will allow Watson to “bring forth critical evidence from medical literature and case studies that are most relevant to the patient’s care.”

Cancer Centers, Epic to Tap Power of IBM Watson Supercomputer

Epic, Watson at work on interoperability

IBM’s Watson targets cancer and enlists prominent providers in the fight