Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

Beacon Partners and Information Builders Announce Partnership to Offer Complete Healthcare Business Intelligence and Analytics Solutions

Weymouth, MA, July 10, 2013 -- Beacon Partners, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, and Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic business partnership. Information Builders provides healthcare organizations with a complete BI and analytics solution – and has now added Beacon Partners as an integral component in this effort. Beacon Partners will help its customers leverage Information Builders software to meet the integration, intelligence, and data integrity challenges of electronic medical records (EMR), clinical transformation, and consumer engagement.

July 12, 2013

Resolute Anesthesia and Pain Solutions, LLC Begins Nationwide Expansion of Shareable Ink's Innovative iPad Solution

Nashville, TN and Boca Raton, FL, July 09, 2013 -- Shareable Ink®, an enterprise cloud computing company that transforms point-of-care clinical documentation to structured data and analytics, and Resolute Anesthesia and Pain Solutions, LLC (“Resolute”), a leading provider group of anesthesia services in the states of Florida, Illinois and Missouri, today announced the nationwide expansion of Shareable Ink’s Anesthesia Cloud for iPad. Resolute’s initial deployment of Shareable Ink’s innovative iPad solution at its Boca Raton Outpatient Surgery and Laser Center demonstrated reduction in unnecessary staff time, improved capture of new quality reporting metrics required by CMS, and better physician and patient satisfaction. As a result, Resolute will standardize use on Shareable Ink’s iPad solution at all facilities.

July 9, 2013

Today at DIA: Deloitte, Intermountain Launch OutcomesMiner Solution

BOSTON, June 24, 2013 -- Today at the Drug Information Association's 2013 Annual Meeting, Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare announce the launch of OutcomesMiner, an analytics tool designed to give researchers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies the data-driven insight needed to conduct comparative effectiveness research and bring new therapies to market more rapidly.

June 24, 2013

Sg2 Announces Groundbreaking Ambulatory Market Data Tools

(Skokie, Ill. – June 12, 2013) Sg2, the leader in health care strategic analytics and intelligence, announced today a new breed of ambulatory market data tools designed to provide a complete and comprehensive view of ambulatory health care service volumes and share in the private payer market.

June 12, 2013

Harris Corporation Awarded $37 Million Contract to Improve Veterans’ Benefit Claims Process

MELBOURNE, Fla. & WASHINGTON -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and international technology company, has been selected to help improve the Veterans Benefits Administration’s (VBA) Enterprise Data Warehouse, the primary source for veterans’ benefits data and information.

June 11, 2013

AstraZeneca, Merck, BMS & Janssen R&D Amongst Keynote Speakers at the Critically Acclaimed Big Data & Analytics for Pharma Summit in Philadephia This June

Philadelphia, PA, June 06, 2013 -- Pharmaceutical companies now have access to a better supply of data through EMRs, and HIEs, as well as more Government sponsored Big Data initiatives than ever before. The downside is that with so much information, many companies are finding it difficult to leverage all of the information available to them.

June 6, 2013

Baldrige Award Winner Southcentral Foundation Selects i2iTracks Population Health Intelligence Solution to Support Meaningful Use, GPRA and UDS Reporting Requirements

Santa Rosa, CA, May 20, 2013 -- A pioneer and leading provider of Population Health and Business Intelligence solutions, i2i Systems announced today that the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning Southcentral Foundation (SCF) selected i2iTracks as their population management solution. SCF will utilize i2iTracks to help them meet their Meaningful Use (MU), Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and Uniform Data System (UDS) requirements – a welcomed solution to managing the demands associated with growing population data.

May 20, 2013

New HIMSS Analytics Report Finds that Canadian Hospitals are Facing Data Access and Workflow Efficiency Challenges

LEXINGTON, Mass.-- Imprivata®, a leading global provider of healthcare IT security solutions, today announced the availability of a new report from HIMSS Analytics that outlines the data access and workflow efficiency challenges Canadian hospitals face as they continue to implement electronic health record (EHR) systems. Titled “Streamlining Workflows and Access to Patient Data in Canadian Hospitals,” the study, commissioned by Imprivata, specifies how EHR adoption can impact workflow efficiency and data access, and identifies single sign-on (SSO) technology as one of the solutions to streamline access to clinical systems and patient information. Imprivata is available to discuss the findings of this study and to demonstrate the features and benefits of Imprivata OneSign® in booth #108 during e-Health 2013 Conference (May 26-29, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).

May 20, 2013

Around the web

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

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