Tag Archive for ‘Healthcare’

Response: A Universal Identifier Isn’t a Silver Bullet

Lorraine Fernandes responds to a recent Wall Street Journal discussion about whether a universal patient identifier can meet the challenges of patient identification and data exchange. She examines three key tenets of successful data exchange.

Transforming Healthcare through Analytics

Healthcare analytics are incredibly powerful for offering patient-centric decision support. IBM’s Global Healthcare Ambassador, Lorraine Fernandes, and Dr. Bill Rollow, Solutions Leader for Healthcare Value and Transformation, talk about the goals of healthcare transformation and how IBM Watson shows the promise of analytics.

Getting Your Healthcare House in Order in 2012

What does it take to get your healthcare house in order for the New Year? Chad recaps a recent webinar from IBM’s Director of Healthcare Products for Information Management, Sean Cassidy, and discusses how to start building a trusted healthcare information platform.

3 Best Practices in Identity Management

As part of the HIMSS Virtual Briefing series, Lorraine Fernandes presented three best practices in identity management. Learn which practices are essential to proper, efficient identity management.

A Birthday Wish: Progress towards Better Care Coordination

Although the long-awaited final regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) were released in late October, there’s still a lot of work to be done to truly enable better care coordination. Lorraine looks at some potential models of care coordination and makes a birthday wish.

Addressing U.K. Health IT Post-NPfIT: 4 Key Components

Now that the UK’s National Health Service has announced it is dismantling its Programme for IT, how can healthcare and government organizations collaborate to successfully treat patients? John Crawford recaps four key components from a recent King’s Fund conference.

Engaging Health Providers for Exchange

Health systems must engage providers to ensure they have the right information about patients. But how can they overcome numerous barriers to exchange? Chad Cosper looks at the infrastructure for managing provider identities to enable better sharing.

The Business Case for Information Governance at Health Plans

Health plans have a lot to gain from information governance, but it can be tricky to articulate the benefits, especially when they’re “soft” and hard to quantify. Sunil Soares and Bob Leo offer guidance on building a business case, offering examples from their extensive experience with health plans.

Join Us: Sharing Data for Smarter Healthcare

Chad Cosper previews our fantastic Sept 14-15 summit, IBM Exchange 2011: Initiate Information Sharing. Hear how IBM is transforming healthcare, the growing role of analytics and how to prepare to support ACOs and meaningful use.

Can a Provider Index Save You from Embarrassment?

Not only is bad provider identification embarrassing, but it can also risk patient safety and violate privacy regulations. Chad Cosper examines the keys to a successful provider index.