Orthopedic procedures are particularly vulnerable in the shift to payment bundling as they are highly customizable, yet physicians and orthopedic service line administrators do not have a real-time view of the effectiveness of the specific implants being used in each procedure.

Interest in health insurance exchanges is rising among health plan members, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 2013 Member Health Plan Study published on March 11. Health plan members who purchase their own insurance, and those who have high deductibles or are unsatisfied with their current plans, expressed the most willingness to explore insurance exchanges, according to the study.

NEW ORLEANS—A sound business analytics strategy can help meet regulatory requirements, navigate reimbursement changes, and improve business efficiency through enterprise-wide data integration, according to a March 6 presentation at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—When considering your patient data, “it doesn’t help to know what happened 30 days ago. It’s too late,” said Mical DeBrow, PhD, RN, Siemens Clinical Strategic Consulting, speaking during a March 5 education session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—George Reynolds, MD, MMM, vice president, CMIO and CIO for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., started working on dashboards when the organization implemented a CPOE initiative in 2007. Reynolds spoke during the Physicians' IT Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention. The symposium is co-hosted by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

Consolidation, the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and efforts to use capitation for Medicare patients will all have an impact on health-related stocks, over then next few years.

Researchers used EHRs to identify patients who weren’t screened regularly for cancer of the colon and rectum—and to encourage them to be screened, which resulted in doubled on-time screening rates and saved health costs over two years. The March 5 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine published the randomized, controlled trial at Group Health in Seattle.

Clinical informatics systems are currently underutilized by hospital infection preventionists, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Infection Control.