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Economy's impact on healthcare facilities

November 13, 2008

Analysis of:Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients | www.nytimes.com

Significant decline scheduled procedures. Greater activity in Emergency Room combined with increase in uninsured and underinsured patients. A difficult outlook for Acute care facilities.

CMS Core Measures success is about documentation

June 23, 2008

Analysis of:Good is Never Enough for P4P | www.hhnmag.com

P$P programs, like CMS Core Measures, while a valuable goal, are primarily about documentation. Documenting the proper activities occurred, within the accepted timeframes is what Core Measures is all about. Did you give the AMI patient aspirin soon enough to be effective, did the pneumonia patient get the correct medication early enough?

What is the likelihood of real Healthcare Reform?

June 23, 2008

Analysis of:Writing New Prescriptions for Change--Policymakers' Interest in Health Care Intensifies | www.washingtonpost.com

What is the chance of real Healthcare reform in the US when major insurers turn huge profits and support a massive lobbyist effort in Washington? Hospitals and doctors are presented as the main cause for spiraling healthcare costs. As modality vendors release newer products like 256 slice scanners, etc. there is an impression that a 64 slice scanner can no longer provide imagery to properly diagnose.

A bit misdirected?

June 20, 2008

Analysis of:Billing System Needs Under Consumer Directed Health Plans | www.phoenixservice.net

A small article that really doesn't do justice to the topic and makes a few misdirected comments.     

A need for cost effective ASP model EHR solution

June 20, 2008

Analysis of:Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records | www.nytimes.com

Slow EHR adoption by small to medium sized Physician practices, those with fewer than 100 providers, clearly shows a market niche for a cost effective, Web-based delivery of these systems. This will remove the primary pain point in adoption by smaller practices and groups.

I lean toward "Bust"

May 16, 2008

Analysis of:Analyst: $850M opportunity for Allscripts with merger | www.forbes.com

Difficulty in turning the potential opportunity into sales     

AllScripts - Misys Merger Investment analysis

April 1, 2008

Analysis of:Misys/AllScripts Merger - A bright future for a new company? | www.healthcarefinancenews.com

Short term pain long term gain? In my opinion, only within the sphere of Misys existing clients. Neither Misys nor Allscripts have been very good at marketing to non-customers.

Diversion dilema will only continue

March 31, 2008

Analysis of:Code-red situation has local hospitals diverting patients | seattletimes.nwsource.com

This is an early indication of a problem that will continue to present itself at hospitals around the country. Two main causes drive this phenomenon: As nursing homes continue to close, there are fewer long term care beds available, which means hospitals can't get their patients out of badly needed beds and the over-use of Emergency care services for non-emergent care creates a bottle-neck at the historical "Front Door" to hospitals. Patients who don't have insurance coverage must resort to using the EMTALA regulations for Emergent Care, to get any care at all.

Belive it when you see it

March 31, 2008

Analysis of:Allscripts and Misys Healthcare to Create a Leader in Physician Solutions | www.smartbrief.com

Allscripts was a darling while they could show growth of their EMR product over the past years, but a majority of this growth was likely due to their partnership with IDX. Misys has been struggling in the Healthcare marketplace for a number of years, showing no growth and an erosion of their Practice Management client base to market surgers like NextGen (Quality Systems) and GE (Centricity). This is merger is more like two drowning people clinging to one another for salvation.

Misys replaces IDX

March 27, 2008

Analysis of:Allscripts, Misys announce merger | www.healthcareitnews.com

This is an acknowledgement that a majority of AllScripts' EMR business was generated by their now defunct partnership with IDX. It is also an acknowledgement that AllScript's purchase of A4 did not fill the void caused by the departure of the IDX relationship after IDX was purchased by GE (who have their own EMR (Centricity)).This will slow (not prevent) Misys' departure from the Ambulatory marketplace.

Tout a technological advance while mired in older work-flow

August 17, 2007

Analysis of:Philips SpeechMagic Used In Largest Deployment Of Front-End Radiology Speech Recognition In The UK | www.medicalnewstoday.com

It's interesting to note in this article the touting of a technological advance, as if it were cutting edge, while a description of their work-flow "Scan the bar-code to pull up the patient data" clearly shows they've either not implemented PACS at all or have failed at truly integrating the the two technologies.

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