Hospital & Physician

After investing large amounts of resources on complex data systems, many organizations find themselves frustrated by errors and complex reports. A well-designed BI program can address these problems.

The biggest driver of unnecessary hospital labor costs? The inability to see a complete picture of market demands. Most hospitals have the technology, but do not use the tools to their full advantage.

While the new health care reform law contains some clear benefits for hospitals – not the least of which is access to care for over 30 million Americans who didn’t have it before – it also creates some new challenges.

In order to improve patient care and clinical outcomes, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure continuity of care, North Memorial decided to move to an Epic electronic medical records system. Discover how Ingenix Consulting provided project management, planning, training, and implementation services for North Memorial's Epic deployment and ongoing engagement.

Learn more about the benefits that an organization can have if they approach 5010, ICD-10 and HITECH Act Compliance with a single strategy.

A finite window of opportunity exists for hospitals and IDNs to offer their EHR systems to affiliated physician practices. Learn how to develop a successful EHR affiliate physician engagement strategy.

Despite federal subsidies of up to $44,000 per physician and additional subsidies for hospitals to help pay for the new technology, many physicians and hospitals may find the costs of converting to EMRs still significantly outweigh the benefits, according to a sophisticated actuarial model developed by Ingenix Consulting. Get our experts' take on the stimulus and see what it means for you.

In Ignite, we concluded that stimulus incentives aren’t enough to offset the costs of EMR adoption. Here, we reveal additional insight on the subject and provide eye-opening calculations made using our interactive ARRA ROI calculator.

In response to the HIPAA privacy and security rules, organizations are taking steps to set up and clean up access controls, and explore possible changes to audit controls and termination procedures. They are facing the practical issues of implementing security policies that are compliant, efficient to administer, and not disruptive to users. Organizations are also setting up new users’ system access according to role-based schemes and examining the ways they are terminating access for departing employees. Learn more.