Healthcare Informatics Magazine

In efforts to “turbocharge” the understanding of population health, performance, and quality, the Office of the National Coordinator founded the Query Health project to develop standards for distributed population queries. The goals for these queries are to deliver insights for local and regional quality improvement and to facilitate performance measures and payment strategies for communities based on aggregated de-identified data. read more

On the heels of Healthcare Informatics releasing the HCI 100, Fran Turisco, a Boston-based director at the Pittsburgh-based consulting firm, Aspen Advisors, joins HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna on a podcast to talk about the current health IT vendor market. read more

Every year as a part of our Healthcare Informatics 100 issue, we highlight the year’s biggest deals, plus a host of smaller-but still significant-acquisitions in an annual mergers and acquisitions report, penned by Ben Rooks, founder of ST Advisors, LLC, an HCIT-focused advisory firm that serves both companies and their investors. read more

In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology,  Harry Greenspun, M.D. on the subject of mobile health (mHealth) and patient engagement. read more

In this podcast live from the HCI Executive Summit, Jeffrey Rose, M.D., vice president of clinical excellence, informatics at Ascension Health, discusses how his 81-hospital integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis, is moving forward with its CMS Pioneer ACOs and other accountable care initiatives and what his organization has learned so far. read more

In this podcast, live from the HCI Executive Summit, Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital discusses how her organization is approaching data warehousing and the integration of the clinical systems necessary for this initative. This podcast was recorded after Dr. read more

In this second part of a two-part podcast, George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., and first place winner of the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award, discusses the challenges of implementing dashboards, the uptake at the hospital, and how the use of dashboards has helped to change the culture at the hospital. read more

In this podcast, Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System, discusses how his integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota is moving forward as a CMS Pioneer ACO and what his organization has learned so far about accountable care and its data and information facilitation. read more

In this first part of a two-part podcast, George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., and first place winner of the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award, discusses the genesis of the idea of using dashboards to drive quality, and its enthusiastic uptake by clinicians, as well as financial and operational professionals. read more

In today’s Healthcare Informatics podcast, Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO of the Tampa, Fla.-based, Shriners Hospitals for Children, as well as Chairman and Co-Founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), joins us to talk about the evolution of the CMIO. Dr. Bria is one of the industry’s leading CMIOs and over his extensive career has seen the role evolve from a facilitator of clinical IS implementations to someone who has a hand in an organization’s change management and a seat at the executive table. read more

In this podcast, Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health, also recipient of the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, discusses how leaders in the industry are using clinical data analytics for performance improvement. read more

Last month the Washington, D.C.-based National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) released the results of its 2012 NeHC Stakeholder Survey, which featured the biggest challenges to achieving widespread health information exchange. Sixty-one percent of respondents said funding and sustainability was the main obstacle, while 53 percent said interoperability standards were hindering HIE adoption. read more

Editor's Note: This podcast previews an article in the upcoming April issue of HCI, where we’ll cover the subject of alert fatigue more in-depth. read more

In this podcast, Assistant Editor Gabe Perna talks with Dr. Rasu Shrestha, M.D., vice president of Medical Information Technology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) live from the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas. Dr. Shrestha is also the medical director of Interoperability and Imaging informatics and the chief of the radiology informatics division at UPMC and has a wealth of knowledge on the issues facing providers when it comes to creating an enterprise wide image repository. read more

This podcast is the final in a series of Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award podcasts, which are highlighting this year’s Innovator Award winners. The HCI Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations -- hospitals, medical groups, health systems and others -- that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance. read more