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Digital health information represents a health system’s greatest asset. It is also the healthcare industry’s greatest ongoing challenge. Nearly a decade after the explosive rise in electronic health record (EHR) adoption, we are still making new discoveries about the...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been close to a decade since the phrase “meaningful use” entered the healthcare lexicon, spurred an unprecedented wave of health IT adoption, and revolutionized the way provider organizations interact with electronic data. In...

Authors: Robert Connely and Jon Zimmerman Accountable care is becoming hugely important for the healthcare industry as regulators, payers, and providers seek ways to reduce waste, improve outcomes, and produce better experiences. Accountable care, also known as value-based care,...

Authors: Robert Connely and Jon Zimmerman Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has been on a wild ride of digitization and financial reform. Electronic health records (EHRs), new pay-for-performance models, and the pressures of consumerism have fundamentally altered...

  “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.” – Mike Schmoker, former school administrator, English teacher and football coach, author. In the first of our series...

“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.” – Donald Sutherland With the upcoming mandates towards value-based healthcare reimbursements, patient care delivery and purchasing models, healthcare organizations will have to assume accountability towards...

The road to a failed value-based program is paved with good intentions.  Many ‘fee-for-service to value-based’ transformations stall because leaders can’t show their stakeholders the value of their strategy.  Patiently building a strong business case can prove return on...

After spending decades in roles associated with deploying healthcare information technology solutions in both acute care and ambulatory settings, I’d venture to say that it’s relatively straightforward to make a judgement on technical success. But after that evaluation, customers...