Despite the belief that healthcare payment reform has been on the verge of a tipping point for years, most of what passes for value-based payments (VBP) today—including pay-for-performance, global payment or capitation, and bundled payments—is still built on a foundation of fee-for-service (FFS).

Even now that most healthcare workers have been inoculated against COVID-19 and the vaccine is being rolled out to the public, the devastating pandemic still looms large—particularly for hospitals. Learn more in the new white paper "Data Analytics in the Time of COVID-19.”

More than 100 people tuned in January 21 for LUMEDX’s first ever Analytics User Group Virtual Conference—taking in a veritable “truckload of information,” as one attendee put it, about how to use HealthView Analytics (HVA). All sessions were recorded and those files along with other references are posted on LUMEDX Community.

As the process of migrating all LUMEDX clients to the newer, more powerful business intelligence solution HealthView Analytics (HVA) continues, so does the commitment to educating Analytics Manager users about HVA’s many benefits.

Heart health outcomes need a boost from data analytics, according to a new report published in Circulation by the American Heart Association (AHA), which raises concerns about the slower decline in cardiovascular mortality rates that began in 2011.

In the last 2020 installment of Clients in the News, read about artificial intelligence that predicted outcomes at Mount Sinai, a new ventilator-splitting technology from Duke University, and virtual health breakthroughs at New York University Langone and UCHealth. Also, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is reaching out to underserved communities with a training program, RWJBarnabas Health has launched an initiative to combat racism, Henry Ford is building a mental health hospital in Detroit, and Inova expands in Virginia.

Whether you’re a HealthView Analytics or Analytics Manager user, or just interested in becoming one, LUMEDX’s first ever Analytics User Group Virtual Conference promises to help you kick off 2021the new year with a deeper understanding of how data can help improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes at your hospital.

As a company dedicated to helping hospitals leverage information technology to improve patient care, LUMEDX would like to congratulate its client partners on making the 2020 Healthcare’s Most Wired list.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has recognized 71 hospitals as achieving Level 9 status. Of the 71 hospitals, 28 of them—around 40%—are LUMEDX clients.

At Duke Heart, collecting data at the point of care and using that data to boost performance and drive quality is all part of a solution that improves patient and physician satisfaction—positively impacting overall outcomes and the hospital’s bottom line in the process. Learn how during our upcoming webinar Structured Reporting and Analytics for Invasive Cardiology.

With hospitals sustaining a major financial hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, any reduction in costs would be welcome. And though there are many arguments in favor of the healthcare industry’s use of software as a service (SaaS) solutions, according to a new study, lower spending on IT tops them all.