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As more health care data becomes digital, data storage and data access become increasingly important issues. Stories here tackle the many aspects of managing a data warehouse, including data feeds, data formats, and access and governance issues.


Can Virtualization Ease the Data Storage Crisis?

Greg Gillespie | May 04
Virtualization hasn't really taken the health care industry by storm, but in the past few years it's becoming increasingly commonplace for organizations large and small to either jump or dabble in storage, server and desktop virtualization by using software to divide physical servers and desktops into multiple virtual environments.
Hardware
Vendor News
Group Practices
Hospitals

What do HIM Departments Look Like in 2016?

Joseph Goedert | May 02
A new white paper, written by Linda Kloss, former head of the American Health Information Management Association and now a consultant, examines what HIM departments of the future will look like. Precyse Solutions LLC, a vendor of HIM services, sponsored the paper.
Document Management
EHR
Policy & Regulation
Group Practices
Health Info Exchange
Hospitals

Transforming Big Data Challenges Into Opportunities

Larry Bettino | Apr 18
We create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data every day, according to IBM, with 90 percent of the data in the world created in the last two years alone. What does that mean in context?
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Data Security
Systems Integration

Humana, National Council on Aging Partner in Stanford Pilot

Pat Speer | Apr 18
In what is being called an industry first, a national health insurer is offering the online self-management workshops piloted by Stanford University, designed as part of its chronic care management solution.
Chronic Care
Consumer Health
Health Info Exchange
Medication Management
Payers

Cook County Consolidates its Health Data

Joseph Goedert | Apr 16
Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Illinois has gone live on a cloud-based unified virtual data center serving nearly two dozen facilities across the Chicago region.
Group Practices
Hospitals
Web Technology
Vendor News

Blog Outlines Challenges for Medicare ACOs

Joseph Goedert | Apr 13
A new blog posting in Health Affairs congratulates the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its progress in launching accountable care organizations, and then examines the challenges that face the agency and its ACOs.
Policy & Regulation
Group Practices
Hospitals
EHR
Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue Cycle & Payments

Dental Research Networks to Consolidate

Joseph Goedert | Apr 13
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research will consolidate regional research networks at six sites into a national network headquartered at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry.
Disease Management
Decision Support
Health Info Exchange
Group Practices

A Path to Improve Health Data Quality

Linda L. Kloss | Apr 04
Accuracy and validity of data are persistent concerns for those who use it and are the subject of that data. And the concerns are well founded. Data error is a risk to patient safety.
Decision Support
EHR
Health Info Exchange
Document Management
Group Practices
Hospitals
Payers
Policy & Regulation
Revenue Cycle Management

HIT Vendor Round-up: Independa, Telcare, FairWarning, USA, GE

Joseph Goedert | Mar 23
New products, partnerships and customer wins are among health information technology vendor news announcements in recent days. For example:
Vendor News
Web Technology
Consumer Health
Data Security
Disease Management
Decision Support
Hospitals

Memorial Sloan Onboard to Enhance Watson Supercomputer Technology

Joseph Goedert | Mar 22
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the latest health care organization to collaborate with IBM Corp. on the data analytics, natural language processing and retrieval technologies of the Watson supercomputer for research and treatment purposes.
Decision Support
Disease Management
Hospitals
Group Practices
Vendor News

BI Requirements Gathering: Leveraging What Exists

Jonathan G. Geiger | Mar 14
In my recent columns, I described two of the most common techniques for gathering BI requirements – interviewing and facilitation. Another frequently used technique is building on what already exists. This incorporates three distinct approaches: analysis of existing queries and reports, inventory of spreadsheets and inventory of current extracts.
Decision Support
Payers
Hospitals
Group Practices

Thought Leaders Share Insights on Health I.T. Challenges

Mar 09
Health Data Management during the recent HIMSS Conference interviewed several experts on pressing health information technology challenges. Here’s what they had to say:
EHR
Disease Management
Data Security

Commentary: Vendor, Know Thy Cloud

Jim Ericson | Mar 01
As I was snooping around the enormous HIMSS show, one of my writer colleagues mentioned some interesting things were starting to happen in health care involving cloud computing.
Medical Imaging
Systems Integration
Mobile Technology
Health Info Exchange

Gold Standard to Market New Drug Pricing Tool

Joseph Goedert | Feb 29
Drug database vendor Elsevier/Gold Standard will market a new standard for drug pricing that is touted as more accurately tracking true drug acquisition costs.
Medication Management
Decision Support
Revenue Cycle Management
Group Practices
Hospitals

Panel to Feds: Give Us Clarity on ICD-10

Gary Baldwin | Feb 23
Rather than giving breathing room, the government’s announcement about an ICD-10 implementation delay “for certain providers” is creating industry confusion, panelists at HIMSS12 said.
Coding
Electronic Data Interchange
Hospitals
Group Practices
Payers
Vendor News
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