Leveraging Technology

Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Health systems now require enterprise data warehouses to create a foundation for future analytics. The shift from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is driving the need for sophisticated analytics systems that can…
Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Performance data give Medicare and other payers the ability to measure the value of health services. Value-based competition will thoroughly disrupt health care markets and will favor innovative players. Providers will need to reconsider what…
Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Hospital leaders — executives and trustees — must pay attention to how facilities affect infection control and patient safety. Medicare and insurers are tying reimbursement to measures on health care-associated…
Health care organizations live or die based on the quality of the data their leaders use to make strategic, business and clinical decisions. And that data — from hospital-acquired infection rates and patient satisfaction scores, to Medicare reimbursement levels — come from dozens of disparate…
When you agreed to serve on the board of a hospital, you probably knew that health care was changing. But I bet you didn't anticipate how sweeping that transformation would be — from how providers are reimbursed to how and where care is delivered; from medical technology that's…
Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Cost is driving a rise in ambulatory care and a proliferation of outpatient settings. Technology enables these facilities to deliver care across multiple settings. Roughly eight models of ambulatory sites have emerged. Differences between these…
2015 was the year of the health care security breach. Nearly 100 million electronic health records were compromised, according to a December 2015 IBM Security report, blowing away the number of data breaches that occurred in the computer services and financial sectors.
Infant mortality hits record low The U.S. mortality rate fell 2.3% in 2014, to a record low 582.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. The drop was led by a 13.5% decline in deaths from respiratory illness.
The American Hospital Association will hold its Annual Membership Meeting May 1–4 in Washington, D.C. The event brings together hospital and health system leaders from around the country to hear from some of the top names in health care, government and media. One track will focus on issues of…
More than 40,000 health care information management professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will attend HIMSS annual conference and exhibition Feb. 29-March 4 in Las Vegas. Peyton Manning, the National Football League’s five-time most valuable player, will…