healthcare

Open Data Day 2013 took place on the 23rd of February – and it was great! From curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers, hundreds of people got together to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Read More »

Shed the status quo in favor of a customer-centric approach to healthcare IT Read More »

ZH Healthcare announced their membership and support to Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. The mission of the VAFCC is to support, strengthen, and advocate for the delivery of quality health care to Virginia’s low-income, uninsured and under insured residents. "We believe that just offering our ZH OpenEMR software is not enough, and want to provide more support in the local area in which ZH Healthcare is based," said Shameem Hameed, Chairman of ZH Healthcare. "We are excited to become a member of VAFCC and look forward to learning more about the needs of the clinics and help and support the mission of VAFCC where we can."
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The Illinois hospital dinosaurs continue to defy evolution and prove that they are not extinct. I am talking about our health facilities planning board, which just turned down another Certificate of Need application for a new hospital, this time in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. The board justified the decision by stating that the new hospital would harm existing hospitals. Read More »

According to PwC’s consumer survey, Social media “likes” healthcare: From marketing to social business, one half of the health industry executives were concerned about how to integrate social media into measurable business outcomes. [...] Read More »

It was a minor skin infection. The visit to the dermatologist’s office at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center took just a few minutes. Before she left, Allison Zaromb paid $40 for her 4-year-old son’s care, the amount listed on her insurance card for an office visit to a physician specialist. Zaromb assumed she had settled the bill, until a shocker arrived in the mail: After paying for the doctor, she still owed about $200 for a “facility fee” [...]. Read More »

[...] Experts have tried to clean up [the image of ICD-10] by praising the added specificity and granularity of the data that will result from the more than 140,000 codes, but it’s a hard sell to providers already drowning in EHR adoption, meaningful use, the ACA, and quality improvement reforms.  Is ICD-10 worth it? Read More »