ORLANDO—Providers can achieve big savings if they focus their lens on preventable visits. Baylor Quality Alliance, a Texas-based clinically integrated accountable care organization of the Baylor Health Care System, was highlighted in a session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference that showed how utilizing predictive analytics successfully targeted high-risk, high-utilizing patients.

Shopping for health care based on price is still fairly rare and exceedingly difficult to do. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the push toward price transparency is growing despite the barriers.

ORLANDO—Each day in 2013 generated an estimated 2.5 zettabytes of data, the equivalent of about 225 newspapers every day for every person on earth. “It boggles the mind how much digital footprint you have every day,” said Brett Trusko, PhD, MBA, president and executive director of the International Association of Innovation Professionals, during a session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference.

ORLANDO—With ICD-10 looming, leaders at Rice Memorial Hospital, 136-bed hospital in Minnesota, suspected clinical documentation and coding problems could hinder future compliance efforts.

Lockheed Martin and the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine have launched a multi-disciplinary partnership deisgned to leverage emerging healthcare technology for improved patient care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added new quality measures related to diabetes and heart disease treatment to its Physician Compare website.

Industry lobbying to minimize the 2015 cuts to Medicare Advantage rates was heavy, and when the announced cut came in at less than 2 percent, health insurance stocks rose.

In its end-of-year financials, Community Health Systems noted that the trend toward lower hospital admission numbers hurt profits. However, there was more in the report and earnings call that competitors should take note of.