ORLANDO—Starting Oct. 1, acute care hospitals with the highest number of acquired infections will see their Medicare payments reduced by 1 percent. With this reality looming, leaders at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital shared their efforts to harness data analytics and workflow tools to more accurately identify and report on safety and quality incidents at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.

ORLANDO—Providers can achieve big savings if they focus their lens on preventable visits. Baylor Quality Alliance, a Texas-based clinically integrated accountable care organization of the Baylor Health Care System, was highlighted in a session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference that showed how utilizing predictive analytics successfully targeted high-risk, high-utilizing patients.

ORLANDO—Each day in 2013 generated an estimated 2.5 zettabytes of data, the equivalent of about 225 newspapers every day for every person on earth. “It boggles the mind how much digital footprint you have every day,” said Brett Trusko, PhD, MBA, president and executive director of the International Association of Innovation Professionals, during a session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference.

ORLANDO—With ICD-10 looming, leaders at Rice Memorial Hospital, 136-bed hospital in Minnesota, suspected clinical documentation and coding problems could hinder future compliance efforts.

Lockheed Martin and the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine have launched a multi-disciplinary partnership deisgned to leverage emerging healthcare technology for improved patient care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added new quality measures related to diabetes and heart disease treatment to its Physician Compare website.

Healthcare has not caught up to other industries when it comes to business intelligence, as more than half of healthcare organizations have not implemented such systems, according to a survey conducted by TEKsystems.

A Mayo Clinic academic clinical team and technology entrepreneurs announced the launch of Ambient Clinical Analytics, a new company focusing on providing bedside critical decision support tools for ICU, operating room and emergency departments.