Posts by Claudia Williams
The Health Information Exchange has Evolved from Hunter and Gatherer to Cultivator
“Data is the new oil,” British data scientist Clive Humby once said. “It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.” I thought about that line recently when I met with the chief medical officer of a large health system. “I don’t want more data,” she told me, “we are already drowning in it.”…
Read MoreDuring Natural Disasters, HIEs on the Front Lines of Addressing Fragmentation in Healthcare
In the middle of California’s fire season, it’s hard not to think about the role healthcare organizations can and must play when it comes to providing and coordinating care for patients during a natural disaster. These events will become more frequent and intense as the impacts of climate change increase. Natural disasters like the fires…
Read MoreThe Business Case for Integrating Claims and Clinical Data
The path to value-based care is arduous. For health plans, their ability to manage care, assess quality, lower costs, and streamline reporting is directly impacted by access to clinical data. For providers, the same can be said due to their lack of access to claims data. Providers and health plans are increasingly demanding integrated claims…
Read MoreNine Years of Progress and a New Commitment
On a cold January day high above Rockefeller Plaza a small group of technology pioneers coined the term Blue Button – denoting giving patients easy access to their own electronic health records. It’s a simple and transformative concept, central to our vision of patient-centered healthcare. It was an honor to be there that day. And…
Read MoreThe Road to Real Personalized Health is Through Data
It still seems magical that Spotify creates a personalized music track for my life. Similarly, I now get personalized suggestions of what books to read, what recipes to cook, and even where to travel. This is the way we’re living our lives except for healthcare. It represents almost 20 percent of the U.S. economy and…
Read MoreCreating an Infrastructure of Health Data to Support Amazon’s Leap into Healthcare
Amazon has transformed the way we read books, shop online, host websites, do cloud computing, and watch TV. Can they apply their successes in all these other areas to healthcare? Just last week, Amazon announced Comprehend Medical, machine learning software that digitizes and processes medical records. “The process of developing clinical trials and connecting them with the right…
Read MoreInland Empire Health Plan incentives now available for regional hospitals that use the MX network to improve patient care
Inland Empire Health Plan is pledging $30 million in pay for performance incentives to regional hospitals in 2018, with $6 million available for hospitals who participate with MX and use MX services in 2018. If you are an eligible Inland Empire hospital, you can meet one of the five performance measures by participating with MX,…
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