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Apr 27, 2012
While many conferences struggle to attract enough qualified participants, Bio-IT World Conference & Expo is an example of a conference that continues to grow by leaps and bounds in terms of both conference events and the number of attendees. With 12 tracks, it covers the gamut of how technology helps to leverage data, all in the name of transforming medicine. It is especially of interest to Liaison how these organizations are moving forward to figure out how to take advantage of the vast amount of information available to them, something that, for the most part, been stovepipe and neglected. Sessions on cloud computing and HIT solutions for personalized medicine and informatics were often standing room only and the keynote speaker required an “overflow” room for the first time.
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Mar 29, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for Stage 2 a couple of weeks ago. The proposed rule specifies the criteria that eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals must be meet to qualify for Electronic Health Record incentive payments.
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Mar 07, 2012
Having just returned from the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, I was able to gain some interesting insight and talk to industry leaders at the show about how meaningful use incentives are affecting the adoption of electronic health records. Recently, stage one of the meaningful use incentives was implemented and stage two was just announced while we were at the conference.
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Feb 21, 2012
What a surprise to see that the HIMSS 2012 HIE Symposia was a sold-out event with more than 350 people attending to the tune of “standing-room only.” The day’s theme, “HIE: The Next Generation and Beyond”, was not only about the future of HIEs, but also covered the difficulties they have endured as the search for a sustainable model continues.
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Feb 10, 2012
Does it really matter what kind of conference people attend when it’s held in Miami, Florida? The truth is, “destination conferences” do attract lots of attendees, so the challenge is to make sure they stay indoors during daylight hours so they can learn new things. From the exhibitor perspective, we have an opportunity to talk with these potential customers to understand their pain-points and determine how we can help.
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Feb 02, 2012
As reported in this week’s Wall Street Journal blog, the lack of information exchange is one of the key obstacles to the success of digital health records. As it is known and reiterated in the article, there is a lot of government funding being thrown at solving the problem, but that money will surely dry up before full connectivity is reached throughout the healthcare ecosystem.
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Jan 20, 2012
2011 marked another milestone year for Liaison with our successful merger with nuBridges, Inc. and exceptional growth in our healthcare and life sciences practice. Our hard work last year has set the stage for a truly transformational year in 2012.
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Jan 17, 2012
Below you will find an interview with Gary Palgon on HIMSS. This is part of the HIMSS blog series.
Dodge: What do you think will be the theme of conversations this year at HIMSS?
Palgon: Three things: cloud services and how they can help organizations, mobility and how it can facilitate better patient care and social networking, benefiting both the business and patient sides of healthcare.
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Jan 04, 2012
Many of the brightest minds in the healthcare industry are inspired to lead innovation that will improve the industry's future. Some of the creative ideas will transform into new paradigms while others will fade with time. We have witnessed the pattern with online eCommerce in the last two decades. Despite sporadic obstacles, underlying forces will eventually bring true value to society and human life.
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Dec 20, 2011
It’s tough to run most businesses without revenue, and in most cases difficult to run a business without customers. In the HIE world, it’s the same with the exception that they can do without those when they have government funding. But funding eventually runs out and this means that they must generate revenue through “customers” – providers, payers, patients or other third parties like life sciences organizations for secondary use of information. The good news is that HIEs, like traditional businesses, can sustain themselves when they have lots of customers; the bad news is they can’t when they lack customers.
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Dec 06, 2011
Good news! CityBizList just reported that our home town of Atlanta, Georgia has been ranked by Jones Lang LaSalle’s “Life Sciences Cluster Report” as a key player in the life sciences field nationally.
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Nov 09, 2011
With more than 630 attendees from 200 plus health-related companies present at the Georgia Health IT Summit, it's easy to see Georgia is making a difference in providing better overall care for patients. Thanks to Georgia Tech and a large IBM (formerly Internet Security Systems) office in our city establishing successful roots in security, in conjunction with Georgia’s recent ranking as the movie film capital second to Hollywood, our state is positioned for continued growth, notably in the area of health IT.
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Oct 05, 2011
Most people that I have spoken with since since April, when Liaison Technologies acquired nuBridges, know that I’ve been spending a lot of time in the healthcare vertical. Just as security within the retail and financial services verticals was key to nuBridges success during the past 6 years, healthcare is an equally, if not bigger opportunity in that vertical alone. It not only includes all of the security needs that we provided at nuBridges – not just protecting credit card information, but rather protecting all patient and other sensitive data – but adds the capabilities of integration and data management to the mix, two areas where Liaison Technologies excels.
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Sep 16, 2011
In my last post I discussed the transition of stealing sensitive data from retail to higher education to hospitality, and suggested that health care will be next. Now I thought I would focus in on why I believe this to be true.
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Sep 13, 2011
We’re celebrating what? This week is National Health IT Week, which means we’re here to confirm that the entire healthcare community is united as one – whether provider, health plan, health information exchange, or patient – in recognizing the importance technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America. From a patient perspective, while my own health is pretty good, there’s no lack of horror stories where the absence of collaboration between providers and other entities is weak to non-existent, or the lack of electronic records (or ability to access them) is the same – very limited. For the very best in patient healthcare and efficient healthcare practices, this needs to change.
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Sep 12, 2011
First we saw the bad guys target retailers to obtain credit card information to resell. The media made a few of them poster children of “who you don't want to be”, and there’s no need to name them as we all know who they are and they have come a long way in improving security. When retail became a bit more difficult, the bad guys moved on to target both the higher education and hospitality industries. Same story, though these industries are not nearly as far along as retail has gone so there’s still lots of work to be done there. I spend a lot of nights on the road in hotels and would personally prefer not to receive another breach notification letter. To do my part, I choose which hotel chains to stay with based on the security of not only my credit card, but also my customer loyalty information – others I avoid like a plague.
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Aug 22, 2011
Information is power: to both the healthcare recommenders, the providers and the decision-makers, and you the patient. True that we often leave the decisions to our doctors, but it is often only you who understands the entire picture. Towards this end, a huge goal of health informatics is to "increase public capacity to access, analyze and disseminate data and information."
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Aug 18, 2011
Did you happen to read Misty Williams’ article, “Patient health care records ready to go viral,” in Tuesday’s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution?
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Jul 14, 2011
Huddled in a hotel in the epicenter of the healthcare debate, Washington, DC, over 300 people have gathered to figure our how to share patient data in an effort to improve long-term care while lowering expenses. While those appear to be opposing forces, as information recording moves from paper to digital and organizations such as hospitals, payers and providers, began to collaborate with one another, magic happens.
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Jun 01, 2011
Perhaps nowhere are data management and integration more critical than in Life Sciences and Healthcare – something we’ve learned firsthand through several recent and ongoing engagements with companies in these industries.
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