Time for a Balance Sheet of Clinical Results
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence Blue or Red? Doesn’t matter. It’s a question I get asked daily when I talk about Healthcare Consulting, Technology, and oh yeah,...
View ArticleRigor and Quality Analysis – it’s time for precision
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence In a recent blog, I wrote about parallel industries; Manufacturing, Airline, and Healthcare and the need to get to a Balance...
View ArticleThe role of a Data Warehouse in the Accountable Care Organization
I read an article recently about the role of analytics within an Accountable Care Organization. This article discussed the need for a longitudinal view of patients using data from the Electronic...
View ArticleEnhancing Patient Experience through Financial Transparency
The CEOs of three major hospital systems participated in a round table at the recent conference that I attended to discuss how their organizations are working to improve patient experience. One of the...
View ArticleOracle and Salesforce.com Announce New Strategic Partnership
Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost...
View ArticleThe Healthcare Debate is now about Finance
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer told healthcare finance professionals last week at ANI: The HFMA National Institute. “People want to know why health care costs what it does and what we’re doing about...
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An Integrated view of CMS ACO Shared Savings Program Measures
By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence Claims + Meaningful Use participation + GPRO + Survey = CMS ACO SSP Simple, right? How will your facility approach the December 31,...
View ArticleSmall Data for Big Wins
Marc Perlman, Global Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Oracle, writes about how “small data” is important to solve “big” healthcare problems in HealthCare IT News “HIE Watch” magazine....
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Cost Accounting and New Reimbursement Models
The healthcare payment systems are evolving from simple pay-for-performance demonstration projects and never-event exclusions to Medicare value based purchasing, readmission restrictions, and bundled...
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How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
There was a recent article in the NY Times with this title that captures the essence of the current costing discussion. One-liter IV bags normally contain nine grams of salt, less than two teaspoons....
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Healthcare Integration and Oracle
When a Healthcare Information Technology leader thinks about sharing data, they may not consider Oracle solutions, but indeed, Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of only five industries designated as...
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Sustaining Hospital Service Lines
“Sustaining a broad portfolio of service lines may no longer be a viable option for hospitals and health systems”. 1 According to HFMA’s recent financial planning newsletter, discussing the viability...
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Financial Forecasting Models for Healthcare Reform
Financial forecasting captures relevant operational, statistical and financial data in one place to enable sound planning and decision making. In addition, forecasting fosters a common understanding...
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What I Learned at Oracle Open World, #OOW13
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 turned out to be one of my best experiences with a trade-show ever! I made new contacts, I learned about product strategy and I learned about awesome customer stories related to...
View ArticleCombining Clinical and Financial Data for Cost Management
Terie McClintock, Director at Perficient, wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of merging clinical and financial data. Assembling this data requires a robust technical architecture that...
View ArticleThe good ‘ole budgeting days are back!
My … how times are changing … back to what they once were! I guess it has something to do with living long enough to experience things, but budgeting with Oracle’s exceptional world class platform...
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Streamlining Data to Meet Healthcare Costing Challenges
Streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum is a constant...
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