Tag Archive | accountable care
Introducing Lawson Analytics for Healthcare
Lawson Healthcare is excited to introduce yet one more way to make our customers stronger – Lawson Analytics for Healthcare. This new suite of analytic solutions offers healthcare organizations a simple way to connect staffing, clinical and financial information for better decision making. Lawson Analytics for Healthcare is designed to help deliver the benefits of [...]
Connecting the Medical Community – Enterprise Exchange as the Foundation for Accountable Care: An Insightful Industry Brief from IDC
A recent industry brief prepared by Lynne Dunbrack of IDC puts its finger on the pulse of some very important industry trends pointing to the emergence of the “Enterprise Exchange” – Hospital/Provider sponsored Health Information Exchanges that connect a natural medical community – hospital, doctors, diagnostic centers, non acute providers – in order to better [...]
Take-aways from HIMSS11
I spent last week at HIMSS, arriving Saturday and leaving Thursday. I came away with several impressions: HIMSS was bigger than ever before – not just in the attendance but in the size of so many of the “booths” – some were more like palaces. I got lost inside the Allscripts booth and it took me a [...]
The Interoperability Playbook: A Winning Plan To Conquer Meaningful Use
With all of the data intensive initiatives going on in healthcare, such as meaningful use and health information exchanges, the need for integration continues to increase and is now getting the attention of the C-suite. Additional initiatives — such as meeting Accountable Care Organization (ACO) conditions, acknowledging potential new reimbursement models and increasing emphasis on [...]
Reform or not…change is coming – Part 2
…presentation highlighted how spending on healthcare is out of control, with the US spending about 18% of GDP on healthcare – more than any other country with outcomes and quality that are worse than many countries. He quoted a statistic from the Institute of Medicine which estimates 30% of what we spend adds no clinical value.
Payment Reform Drives Need for Enterprise Exchange and BI Capabilities
As the implications of payment reform begin to sink in, there is a growing recognition that healthcare provider organizations – hospitals and their affiliated medical communities – will need their own information exchange and business intelligence capabilities.
What’s the state of your IT department?
Recently, Nam Vo, VP of Healthcare Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions for Lawson, and I had the chance to talk directly with a dozen or so directors and CIOs about their priorities and strategies around electronic health records (EHR), accountable care, supporting affiliated medical providers and other current healthcare initiatives.
Part One: Virtualization is a good thing.
I believe that virtualization technologies will provide a huge boost for HCOs to meet this increase in integration demands. When used in addition to other technologies, virtualization can enable HCOs to reduce costs in a variety of ways.
