NEW ORLEANS—A sound business analytics strategy can help meet regulatory requirements, navigate reimbursement changes, and improve business efficiency through enterprise-wide data integration, according to a March 6 presentation at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—When considering your patient data, “it doesn’t help to know what happened 30 days ago. It’s too late,” said Mical DeBrow, PhD, RN, Siemens Clinical Strategic Consulting, speaking during a March 5 education session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—George Reynolds, MD, MMM, vice president, CMIO and CIO for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., started working on dashboards when the organization implemented a CPOE initiative in 2007. Reynolds spoke during the Physicians' IT Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention. The symposium is co-hosted by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

Researchers used EHRs to identify patients who weren’t screened regularly for cancer of the colon and rectum—and to encourage them to be screened, which resulted in doubled on-time screening rates and saved health costs over two years. The March 5 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine published the randomized, controlled trial at Group Health in Seattle.

Clinical informatics systems are currently underutilized by hospital infection preventionists, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Infection Control.

The National Minority Quality Forum has launched a collaboration between its National Health Index (NHI) and Microsoft to launch the National Clinical Trial Network designed to address challenges in clinical trials.

Clinical Innovation + Technology published a viewpoint on Feb. 5 by Ken Elek, MD, about information versus data. The following is a response submitted by Brian Martin, MD, founder and CMIO of Sedeo, a clinical analytics firm delivering strategic intelligence to the pharmaceutical industry, along with Eleck's rebuttal.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the first children's hospital to earn the National Committee for Quality Assurance's accreditation as an accountable care organization (ACO).