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- By Nikhil Bhojwani
We've all heard the term, "Boiling the Ocean" to refer to an approach that is broad and ambitious and generally leads to lots of work and very little insight.
Historians will argue about whet…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
Here's a quick look at relative prices in MA using CHIA data for you to play with. What you could do for instance is select Commercial and Medicare on the left (use CTRL key for multiple selection) an…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Allegheny Health Network (AHN), the major delivery system in Pittsburgh owned by Highmark, and Johns Hopkins Medicine have signed a MOU to create an affiliation between Allegheny and the John…
- By Tory Wolff
Samsung and Cigna have agreed to a multi-year development alliance for health applications for the Samsung smartphone. The partners will initially focus on content (access to the health-related tips …
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
In 2011, we would tell our payer clients (tongue firmly ensconced in cheek) that the answer to all questions was "private exchanges." In 2012, the punchline changed to "narrow networks." In 2013, what…
- By Tory Wolff
Market for outsourced revenue cycle management could be big
The revenue cycle management (RCM) vendor industry is about $2.0B for hospitals and $11 billion for physicians today. The market is constra…
- By Tory Wolff
Quick follow-up to our post about the Epic-eClinicalWorks deal: Today’s Healthcare Informatics has an interview with Martin Harrison, CIO of Cleveland Clinic, was asked what is the biggest strategic …
- By Tory Wolff
Epic is famous for its intense focus on interoperability across its own systems coupled with its conservatism regarding interoperability with other EMRs. In 2012, KLAS said Epic has the “deepest data…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Michael Porter and Thomas Lee have articulated a strategy for fixing healthcare focused on restructuring providers and assessing them based on metrics “that matter to patients”
The most compe…