Emdeon, a Tenn.-based provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, unveiled its self-service ICD-10 testing exchange.

Data governance and discipline are keys to building a modern, maximally efficient enterprise business intelligence (EBI) platform for health care. The actual technology must be secondary to the organizational activities that go into building an EBI platform designed to serve the business information needs of the organization. The data, not the technology, should be the point of control.

Healthcare providers could reduce costs by nine percent or $11 billion over the next three years through the adoption of IT-as-a-service models, according to a report by the public-private partnership MeriTalk and EMC. The findings are based on a survey of 109 members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has released an article, “Risk Managers’ 10 Strategies for Health IT Success,”  and will provide free access the week of June 17-21, which is also Healthcare Risk Management Week.

Hurricane Sandy triggered a renewed look at disaster planning and it seems that no amount is too much.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. –“We are at the precipice of change. Organizations face life or death decisions by their choice of IT strategies,” Scott Lundstrom, group vice president at IDC Health Insights, told attendees at the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit on May 8.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Health IT may hold the promise to better coordinated care and improved health outcomes, but a power outage can quickly turn this digital advantage into a nightmare if planning and employee communication strategies are not in place, said Chris Petteruti, director of technology at the Permanente Group, speaking at the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit on May 8.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—While there are “depressing challenges facing healthcare,” there is reason for optimism, said Alan Russell, PhD, Highmark Distinguished Career Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Russell spoke during the Institute of Health Technology Transformation’s Boston Health IT Summit.