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Accountable care organizations and other entities that do population health management will be heavily dependent on claims data from payers for the next 10 to 15 years, predicts Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy and management and health informatics at the Bloomberg School of Public...
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Despite all the hoopla about clinical and business intelligence applications, the use of these tools by hospitals and healthcare systems is still in an early phase, a new report indicates.
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What will make accountable care organizations successful? And will they be able to succeed at all?
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Effective October 1, 2013 CMS will fundamentally alter the manner in which hospitals define how inpatient status and outpatient observation is determined. The IPPS 2014 Final Rule contains two provisions that directly affect the day to day operations of the hospital. First, CMS has made...
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PCCI, a not-for-profit healthcare analytics research and development firm in Dallas, has named Vaidyanatha Siva its COO.
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A top executive of Chicago-based imaging software developer Merge Healthcare has resigned, in the second management shakeup at the publicly traded firm this month.
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Long-time Kaiser Permanente leader George Halvorson previously gave up his CEO post and will soon be relinquishing his chairman position. But he doesn't want anyone to think he's ready to move to a senior condo in Florida.
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To more effectively identify healthcare providers committing fraud, a national insurer and a multistate payer have announced a plan to pool data with a third-party risk analytics firm.
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Kaiser Permanente reports it used patient registries, data analytics, dissemination of evidence-based guidelines, sharing of performance metrics and the increased use of prescription drugs to achieve a near doubling of the rate of patients who got their high blood pressure under control. The...
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PTS Physicians, a healthcare analytics company based in New Albany, Ohio, has hired J. Penn Krause as president and CEO.
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