LUMEDX celebrates National Health IT Week Sept. 23-27 LUMEDX is a proud partner of National Health IT Week and a firm believer that the delivery and management of healthcare is best served by a community of providers linked—and empowered—by technology. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 09/19/2019 Categories: Health IT HIMSS National Health IT Week
Health IT spending reaches $7.1B, mostly on EHRs. Is it having an effect? U.S. healthcare organizations spent an estimated $7.1 billion on IT last year, according to a new study by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP)—more than two and a half times what it was just five years ago. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 06/20/2019 Categories: EHRs Health IT ONC
Value of EHRs seen by physicians—but potential unreached, study says As electronic health records become ever more ubiquitous, physicians appreciate the value they bring to the hospital setting but would like to see them take things a step further, according to a new study. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 07/19/2018 Categories: Analytics CVIS EHRs Health IT Interoperability
ASE2018 tackles value-based care, MACRA in the echo lab As hospital administrators, service line leaders and clinicians work tirelessly to stay on the cutting edge of science and medicine, health IT is increasingly providing the solutions to many new challenges. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 07/19/2018 Categories: Affordable Care Act Analytics ASE Echocardiography Health IT HealthView MACRA Value-Based Care
Health IT spending study identifies value-based care, analytics as top priorities Healthcare providers are prioritizing value-based payment models in 2018 IT budgets and data analytics is the category most likely to see an increase in spending, according to a survey from healthcare advisory firm Damo Consulting. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 03/12/2018 Categories: Analytics Cybersecurity Health IT HealthView Value-Based Care
Visit LUMEDX at ACC.18 and NCDR.18 in Orlando Join LUMEDX at the American College of Cardiology 67th Annual Scientific Session & Expo (ACC.18)—the largest gathering of innovative cardiovascular products and services under one roof—and the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Annual Conference (NCDR.18), a 2½-day program held right before ACC.18 that aims to help hospitals and health systems blaze trails in quality improvement. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 02/20/2018 Categories: ACC Analytics Health IT NCDR
Value-based care is here to stay, will get boost from analytics, study says Despite 2017’s cancellation of mandatory bundled payments, the value-based care movement in the United States is still healthy and will benefit in 2018 from analytics, according to a report from Washington, D.C.-based healthcare consulting firm Avalere. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 01/17/2018 Categories: Analytics Bundled Payments CMS Health IT MACRA Value-Based Care
Full-scale adoption of AI still a long way away, new study says While the use of clinical and business intelligence tools is on the rise in healthcare, the hype surrounding artificial intelligence is unlikely to lead to full-scale adoption for quite some time, according to a new study by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 11/13/2017 Categories: AI Analytics Health IT HIMSS
Don’t let obsolete devices jeopardize your medical data As anyone with a mobile phone can attest, technology is moving so fast it doesn’t take long for the next big thing to become antiquated. This rapid rate of change creates many challenges, and one of the most critical is the retention of important information even as the devices collecting and storing that information become obsolete. ... read more Posted by Jana Ballinger 09/05/2017 Categories: EHRs Health IT
Registries play a role in MIPS reporting MIPS, the Medicare physician reimbursement program set to begin in 2019, is causing healthcare providers to consider the use of registries, if they haven't already, as part of their workflow practices. ... read more Posted by 05/03/2017 Categories: EHRs Health IT Healthcare Reform HealthView HIE LUMEDX Users