Health Information Technology
AstraZeneca using ePRO in clinical trials and with preferred providers. (Source:FierceBiotechIT newsletter April 2011)
Hundreds of experts assembled at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus on the Kauffman Foundation’s dime to sit in on what became part lecture, part discussion, and part free-form intellectual improvisation on the idea of reducing health care costs through technology.
As the US healthcare system transitions from a pay-for-service model to pay-for-value through new arrangements including bundled payments and the Accountable Care Organization (ACO), healthcare organizations will require advanced analytics solutions to track, analyze and report on quality and cost across every care setting.(Source: Healthcare Technology News)
Presentation by Jean Paul Gagnon, PhD, Health Policy Consultant
A RAND Corp. study suggests that the estimated the savings from electronic medical records would be about $77 billion a year. But, a new Harvard study suggests all of these claims are simply wrong. Health “information technology,” the research concluded, has yielded neither substantial efficiencies nor any real savings at the U.S. hospitals that today use various forms of it.(Source: Emily Badger, Miller-McCune, Nov. 23, 2009)
Investigative data analysis and decision support system that enables analysts, researchers, investigators and other knowledge workers to rapidly perform complex, multi-step, iterative investigation on various types of detail data from different sources. DataProbe is primarily used to manage and swiftly analyze large volumes of detailed health-related data to support research, investigation, and decision making.
The overall aims of the projects are to develop and pilot test a federated computer network prototype that supports the secure analyses of health information across multiple organizations in order to study the clinical effectiveness of various medical therapies, including their risks, therapeutic effects, and other outcomes.
Presentation at ISPOR Europe, Nov. 2011 by David Ford, MBA, FRSA, Director, Health Informatics Research Labs, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Medication management is one of the major components of health care. It goes beyond prescribing. Bell's medication management model describes a framework for evaluating systems based on their functional capabilities. The model shows the 5 phases in medication management: select and prescribe, transmit, dispense, administer, and monitor; and 14 functional capabilities for medication management systems.
This final rule implements the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111-5) that provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and successfully demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology.
The RxEOB platform collects and unifies formulary information from a variety of sources, in whatever format it is in, and then allows it to be distributed where it is needed, in the format it is needed, including governmental Part D reporting and ePrescribing integration.
Harvard Medical research teams are conducting advanced pharmacoepidemiology studies that look at the effects of drugs in large numbers of people based on insurance claims data.(Source: insurancenewsnet.com)
Presentation by Kim D. Slocum, President, KDS Consulting, LLC
Provides software and online tools for disease management programs, patient and healthcare provider education programs, healthcare administrator programs and health outcomes assessment programs. Link to a number of online calculators for cost effectiveness research
Professional certification in electronic health records and Health information technology
HiT profiles seek to provide relevant information to support policy-makers and analysts in the development of health systems in Europe. They are building blocks that can be used: to learn in detail about different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems; to describe the institutional framework, the process, content and implementation of health care reform programmes; to highlight challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis; and to provide a tool for the dissemination of information on health systems and the exchange of experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and analysts in different countries.
IBMers and Friends on Networked, Patient-Centric Healthcare: Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Clinical Transformation, Biobanking, etc.
The product rovides clinical support for physicians, and allows patients to access their own data, and supports "evidence-based medicine" expected to become a government requirement in the second-phase of "meaningful use" rules for EMRs.
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university $4 million to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing use of health information to facilitate treatment and research, improve health outcomes for patients and heighten accountability.
MyDrugBenefit is a health plan’s single platform for empowering consumers to more appropriately use their prescription benefit – get the right therapy, at the right time, from the right source, based on both clinical and financial considerations.
Using clinical analytics to lower costs emerged as the top driver for payers, according to an HIMSS Analytics whitepaper. The research is the second annual study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by Anvita Health. It was created from a series of focus groups and one-on-one interviews with chief medical officers and chief medical information officers.(Source:Managed Healthcare Executive E-News, Jamie J. Gooch)
Recombinant builds reliable data warehouses and reporting systems that integrate the complex clinical concepts of evidence-based medicine to transform healthcare data into meaningful, actionable views, including views for C-level executives who need metrics to support P4P performance, board-level reports and Joint Commission accreditation
RxEOB’s RxEConnect allows health plan users to use pharmacy claims data to generate personalized communications, including cost-savings opportunities, care alerts, drug-migration, health program recruitment, as well as EOBs and TrOOP reports.
RxMonitor, from RxEOB, allows health plans to unleash the power of Pharmacy Business Intelligence. The solution is an analytic and reporting engine for gleaning insights from pharmacy data to meet the unique informatics needs of all stakeholders.
RxSentinel, from RxEOB, is a suite of health plan branded web-applications and supporting APIs that allows pharmacy data, and the insights generated from it, to meet the informational needs of external stakeholders – physicians, providers, and employers.
