Earlier this month, panelists of the US Senate’s committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, part of an ongoing a series of discussions focusing on how to improve electronic health records and create an interoperable health system, recommended that meaningful use stay the course.   Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who continues to push regulators on […]

Healthcare analytics is used in the marketing of business software and consulting services, making extensive use of data, statistical and qualitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling. Currently the most prevalent application for real-time health care analytics is within clinical decision support (CDS) software. These programs analyze clinical information at the point of care and support […]

From the very beginning less than two years ago, the HIMSS Innovation Center has been a marquee venue for organizations “wishing to build their brands and market their health IT-related services both locally and globally.” Since the beginning, Alego Health has worked with HIMSS to help bring collaborators and health IT organization to the center […]

According to a newly released ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), only three-quarters of physician practices say they will be ready for ICD-10 implementation by Oct. 1, 2015. The remaining one-quarter of physician practices say they are “unsure” about their ICD-10 preparation levels. For the survey, 621 people said they took part […]

The US Senate’s Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee continues its march toward a world where interoperability is the norm and various competitive systems work together no matter the markets or locations they serve. The attention of the committee is currently focused on a possible delay to the Stage 3 of meaningful use. The committee’s […]

Telemedicine is the major thing, the last 18 months have shown the interest in the subject is overwhelming. As such, a new survey reveals that nearly 60 percent of doctors will meet their patients via video – and just as many would refer their patients to a hospital that offered telemedicine consults with specialists. The […]

While clinical video consultations lead the market today with sessions in non-clinical settings and will represent the majority within four years. Thus, telehealth video consultations are set to take off, even though the digital health industry is still in its formative years, it has a firm foothold and is poised for strong growth in the […]

The Harvard Business Review claims that the Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as the third wave in the development of the Internet. The first phase, the fixed phase, began in the 1990s and connected one billion users via PCs, followed by the second phase where the mobile Internet of the 2000s connected two billion […]

ICD-10 is upon us and despite any last-minute come-from-behind play, like a phased or delayed rollout, it looks like the Oct. 1, 2015, deadline for the transition will finally stand. Given that likely fact, and the fact the transition was delayed from Oct. 1, 2014, healthcare organizations are still not prepared for the coming change. […]

We’re less than 100 days from the ICD-10 implementation deadline and there’s a less than likely possibility that we’ll receive another delay, but, of course, weirder things have happened.  That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been some movement by lawmakers on Capitol Hill who continue to push for transition periods or outright bans of the code […]