From Meaningful Use to Measurable Use
I always wondered the impact of ‘meaningful’ in Meaningful Use (MU) of EHR program, which is created by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. Prior to...
View ArticleTriple Aim Mandate: Tele-health, Tele-monitoring
You won’t find it explicitly outlined as a requirement for Medicare certification, but it is a strong undercurrent to achieving Triple Aim. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
View ArticleA C-Suite Perspective on Increasing the Velocity of Successful Transformation...
Preface: As the pharmaceutical industry continues to make progress at transformation, what ground-breaking strategies could help accelerate its success? With Apple Computer’s recent attainment as the...
View ArticleJoin the Conversation on ‘Population Health Management’: #futurecare Tweet Chat
Organizations and individuals around the globe are taking fast-paced steps to transform the way healthcare is provided. With technology such as analytics, mobile and cloud making positive in-roads...
View ArticleInnovating in the age of ecosystems
Persistent disruptive forces in life sciences are threatening traditional business models over the medium to long term. New technologies are driving radical disruption, value chains are fragmenting...
View ArticleLessons from the 2015 NHS Confederation Conference
Just a week after the city had welcomed the 3 Queens, Liverpool was extending a warm welcome to 3000 senior health and care executives for the 2015 NHS Confederation Conference. The IBM Healthcare...
View ArticleMaximize Your EMPI Investment: The Olmsted Story
Recently I had the privilege of participation in the webinar “Maximize Your EMPI Investment” with Michelle Majerus, HIM Director and Privacy Offer for Olmsted Medical Center and Corinne Blair, Industry...
View ArticleKey Takeaways from the “Hack Aging” Hackathon
In the aged care sector, IBM is seeing many opportunities to improve the quality of life of the elderly and their families. Two examples of work we are doing in this area include: A joint initiative...
View ArticleA cognitive opportunity for healthcare?
The healthcare industry is facing tremendous upheaval as a result of pressures from economic, societal and industry influences. Additionally, the digital age is producing a mass of healthcare data and...
View ArticleTowards cognitive wellness of healthcare
Human mind is a wonderful system. It is fascinating to watch how it evolves from an innocent baby brain to an expert mind over years. It is interesting to see how it can dwell into twilight zone of...
View ArticleManaging to ICD-10 Implementation
Amidst all of the discussion surrounding ICD-10 implementation, much attention has been paid to the practical discussion surrounding the need for a more anatomical understanding of the diagnosis and/or...
View Article5 reasons why the healthcare system of US lags behind that of most developed...
The United States has by far the least efficient healthcare system of all the developed countries and healthcare costs continue to escalate without a coinciding increase in quality, despite having some...
View ArticleAttend the IBM-HIMSSS Webinar- Connecting the Data: Integration for Today’s...
IBM is sponsoring a webinar hosted by HIMSS on Sept 25th , 2015 at 12.30 PM ET. The main speaker of webinar is Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, Chief Medical Information Officer, University of Michigan Health...
View ArticleTop Five Hotspots to Transform Life Sciences Business Processes
Changes in global market and data explosion are influencing all aspects of business model and operational changes for life sciences clients. But when you gather data points and perspectives about these...
View ArticleAdvaMed 2015: IBM Presence
AdvaMed, is the leading MedTech conference in North America bringing more than 1,000 companies together in a uniquely multifaceted environment for business development, capital formation, and...
View ArticleA C-Suite Perspective on Increasing the Velocity of Successful Transformation...
Preface: A turnaround expert with a unique track record in the intensely competitive pharmaceutical industry, Fred Hassan has led successful turnarounds at a number of multinational firms. His...
View ArticleDefining Transformation for the Healthcare Consumer
As I tour colleges with my college-bound high school senior, I repeatedly hear how the students can use an app to find out which washer/dryer is available to save them a trip to the laundry room. I...
View ArticleContinuing the Cognitive Conversation in Healthcare
Over the past few weeks there is has been one word making a regular appearance in my in-box and vocabulary… It started back started in September with the launch of a new IBM Institute for Business...
View ArticleCognitive Computing in Healthcare: Q&A Series – Part 1
In the age of cognitive computing, where intelligent machines simulate human brain capabilities to help solve society’s most vexing problems, the healthcare industry is at the forefront. Already,...
View ArticleCognitive Computing in Healthcare: Q&A Series – Part 2
As Cognitive Computing continues to make headlines globally and be a focus of many industries we continue our look at its potential impacts in the Healthcare industry. Here we present the second part...
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