MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'analytics'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096678&cid=t_105103_118_f&fid=39279&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ffoxepractice%2F%7E3%2F1bSThS5Vojw%2F Data is great, and boy do we have lots of data from the millions of Twitter conversations we have in our healthcare social media database. However, data isn’t very useful or say user-friendly until after you’ve curated and analyzed it. The Healthcare Hashtag Project is now taking some small first steps into the realm of analytics. What are Healthcare Social Media Analytics? There are so many questions we can answer with all the data we have, but asking too many questions defeats the purpose of simplifying the data. That’s why we are starting very carefully with asking only a few questions. Our audience is the healthcare community at large consisting of physicians and other healthcare providers, as well as patients. How can we help them? We’ve decided to keep it simple and focus... Fox ePractice blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096678 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:34:53 +0100 5096678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5086318&cid=t_105103_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F-7lsbU-z0_s%2F I’ve just turned in a story for InformationWeek Healthcare about the new “Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market, 6th Edition” report from HIMSS Analytics. That report details the progress hospitals and integrated delivery networks have made in IT over the past year and gives an update on how far along providers are according to the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model. That’s the seven-level scale (eight if you count Stage Zero) that measures adoption of various EMR components. At the top of the scale, 1 percent of nonfederal hospitals in the U.S. attained Stage 7 in 2010, meaning that the EMR served as the legal medical record for all departments, was capable of exporting patient records as Continuity of Care Documents and had data warehousing and mining in place... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5086318 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:18:20 +0100 5086318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3915001&cid=t_105103_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-twitter-diet%2F2010.08.29 Here is a recent piece in the New York Times by reporter Brian Stelter who decided to lose weight by 1) getting support from fellow Twitterers, and 2) by tweeting everything he eats throughout the day. An excerpt: I knew that I could not diet alone; I needed the help of a cheering section. But rather than write a blog, keep a diary or join Weight Watchers, I decided to use Twitter. I thought it would make me more accountable, because I could record everything I ate instantly. And because Twitter posts are automatically pushed to each person who subscribes to them, an audience — of friends or strangers — can follow along. What’s surprising is that he didn’t start using some kind of data-collecting application. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3915001 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:55 +0100 3915001 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294684&cid=t_105103_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fincentives-need-speed-hit-adoption As discussion continues concerning the recently proposed Meaningful Use standards for HIT, it appears increasingly likely that federal policymakers will allow providers more flexibility when it comes to qualifying for incentives. But even as those details are being ironed out, policymakers should be considering how they will measure the effectiveness of the incentives in the years to come. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294684 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:42:26 +0100 3294684 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2288998&cid=t_105103_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fmainstream-media-watch-part-200-and.html Tuesday's Chicago Tribune had a feature story in the main news section about health IT. With health IT drawing $19.2 billion from the federal stimulus legislation, stories are popping up all over the mainstream media of late. What struck me, though, is that the reporter went to a medical practice in Vero Beach, Fla., and talked to consultants and experts all over the country, when there's so much health IT activity and expertise right here in the Chicago area. Notably, NorthShore University Health System in suburban Evanston is the only organization not named Kaiser Permanente to reach Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model scale. To his credit, though, reporter Noam Levey did quote New York City Assistant Health Commissioner Farzad Mostashari, M.D., a rising star in health IT c... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2288998 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:10:00 +0100 2288998 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258349&cid=t_105103_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fkaiser-northshore-hospitals-reach-himss.html The first-ever list of "Stage 7" hospitals is out, and it includes 15 facilities, but just organizations: Kaiser Permanente and NorthShore University HealthSystem, formerly known as Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.HIMSS Analytics said that 12 Kaiser hospitals in California and all three NorthShore acute care facilities in the suburbs of Chicago reached the top level of EMR implementation on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model. That means they are effectively paperless, can share patient data with other organizations by sending standardized electronic transactions and are able to mine their clinical databases for quality improvement.The Kaiser Stage 7 hospitals are:South San Francisco Medical Center (127 Beds)South Sacramento Medical Center (228 Beds)Sacramento Medical Center (331 Beds)... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258349 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:54:00 +0100 2258349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2222359&cid=t_105103_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fhimss-analytics-42-hospitals-reach-ehr.html HIMSS Analytics has announced the latest list of hospitals to reach "Stage 6" of EHR implementation, and for 2008, 42 hospitals in 24 organizations make the cut. That is only 0.5 percent of all non-federal hospitals in the U.S., up from 0.3 a year earlier.Additionally, 15 hospitals, or 0.3 percent of the national total, achieved Stage 7, the highest level of the scale, but HIMSS Analytics has not made those names public. All those in Stage 6 or 7 will be honored at an April 6 awards ceremony.Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model means hospitals are almost fully paperless, with electronic physician documentation, full clinical decision support and full picture archiving and communications systems available throughout the enterprise.The Stage 6 list includes: ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2222359 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:52:00 +0100 2222359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2100714&cid=t_105103_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Ftrack-your-netvibes-public-pages-with.html A returning question from participants in workshops and courses about using RSS & Personal Start Pages & Netvibes, is "How can I track the use of the Public Page (Universe) by Netvibes?) And what about the use of the Search & News widgets?" I am still looking for a good answer for the widgets tracking, because Netvibes is not offering tracking of individual widgets at this time, and I haven't heard any talk about it. So for this, we can only see the downloads from the eco.netvibes.com or widgetbox.com sites. (Google is offering -for their own gadgets- a manual for gadget tracking. Maybe some geek can/did try and mash this up to make it work for other widgets ...?) I DID find a way to keep track of the use of the Public pages! Create a Google Analytics accountAdd a website pro... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2100714 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:29:00 +0100 2100714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1826477&cid=t_105103_101_f&fid=36535&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbackboardsandbandaids.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fanalytics.html "the comparison of similarities between a certified nursing assistant and a paramedic" WTF...I'm not even going to begin to...whatever."strange things that ems find" You wouldn't believe me."should medical cots be wiped down after each patient" Meh, that's overrated...I'M KIDDING..."how many band-aids are required to be in an ambulance" That depends on your service, state shit and whatever. We don't have to have any, but I keep some in my bag anyway."how to get someone to give you an enema" Weird."how to give enema to husband" Weird."having someone give you an enema" Weird."enema girl" Weird."fibromyalgia is bull shit" YES!"can an EMT work pregnant" Why not? Unless you're a harm to others, why not?There's a ton more, but I'm tired. Night all. I promise I'll pick up the posting soon. I seem... Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1826477 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:14:00 +0100 1826477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1373612&cid=t_105103_93_f&fid=36200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.jammedph.com%2Ffree-tools-to-monitor-your-website%2F You can’t just put your website on the net with right keywords and all the right touches and expect your traffic and ranking will remain constant. As the web is an ever changing landscape, you have to keep track of your own web results like what is happening with the competition and also the best and highest ranked sites. There are many useful tools to help you find out what exactly is happening. 1. A tool which you can use to test your own website links or other websites for broken links: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html 2. With this tool you can check search engines for the number of back links to your URL i.e. other web pages linking to your site: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/ 3. It sometimes becomes important to know where the servers of your hosting company ... Jammed: Full into Capacity blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1373612 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:09:16 +0100 1373612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1344176&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F4%2F1%2Fpractical-advice-to-employers-on-managing-a-health-plan.html Lynn Jennings On blogs like this, people like me write analytically about issues which are often, at best, conceptual to us.Not so to the guys in the rough and tumble world of health care finance. I remember that the first time I went to dinner with Lynn Jennings, I only knew that he was CEO of Alliance Underwriters, working in reinsurance, and that he is a former President and a current Board member of the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA). SIIA is the national association of third party administration firms, the organizations that administer health plans for self-funded employer health plans. As we were walking into the restaurant, he turned to me and said, "In reinsurance you make a very sizable bet and find out three years later how things turned out."Over time, thou... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1344176 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:14:36 +0100 1344176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1136803&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F1%2F8%2Fon-practical-reforms.html Brian Klepper Now that health care reform is once again an active, visible issue in state governments and the presidential campaigns, the ideas are flying fast and furious. Predictably, some ideas are better than others. Over at Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, Bob Laszewski asks an important, practical but vexing question for universal coverage advocates: Can you really mandate people to buy health insurance? Mandated health insurance is a plank in the Clinton campaign's health care reform plan and is a key way that Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama differ on that issue. (I don't know why Presidential candidates should provide this level of operational specificity at this point in the game - there are lots of different ways to skin the universal coverage cat - but they have.) Under... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1136803 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:53:38 +0100 1136803 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1111797&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F12%2F21%2Fhealth-care-quote-of-the-year.html Brian Klepper I was reading through some other peoples' blog posts yesterday and came across this straightforward statement by Paul Levy, the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Paul made news by establishing a blog called Running a Hospital. I think he's probably taken some good-natured ribbing by his more straightlaced colleagues. But I admire that fact that he's broken the bounds of decorum and speaks openly about the many tremendously difficult issues that face hospital executives. While many many hospitals (and doctors and health plans and...) are still doing everything possible to hold back the transparency tide, here's his take, published yesterday on Matthew Holt's Health Care Blog:The main value of transparency is not necessarily to enable easier consumer c... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1111797 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:49:30 +0100 1111797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=950848&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2Fhealing-unbound-the-promise-of-advancing-computational-power.html Laptop-attached ultrasound units that produce startlingly clear internal images for five dollars in the field. Organs that re-generate inside scaffolds.  Drugs tailored to an individual’s biology. Micro-images of cancerous cells lit up by bio-chemical markers. Decision support tools that scan the physiological values in electronic health records for patterns too complex to be detected by an unaided clinician.The advances available from dramatic improvements in computational capabilities were a recurring theme at the Aspen Health Forum, with experts from each discipline describing where the technology was leading us. I attended two sessions featuring Star Trek clips that predicted realities now within at least theoretical reach. (Prescient and corny, audiences nodded nostalgicall... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=950848 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:24:57 +0100 950848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=947940&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F10%2F13%2Fa-broad-vision-of-health-20.html Brian KlepperThree weeks ago Pat and I attended a fascinating conference in San Francisco on Health 2.0, an emerging industry that promises to change the ways patients manage their own health, and the ways that clinicians and purchasers of all types make clinical and management decisions. The term Health 2.0 refers to Web 2.0, the idea that, in social networking, people will use Web-based platforms to reformulate data for their own purposes.Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a highly-respected health economist and commentator working at the intersection points of health care and technology. Jane and I worked together to describe the elements and functions we believe will be integrated to constitute Health 2.0's real value. We've posted this narrative and an accompanying image - its an animated PowerPoi... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947940 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:22:44 +0100 947940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=886212&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F9%2F20%2Fhow-might-information-technology-actually-change-health-care.html Brian KlepperToday I’m in San Francisco for the Health 2.0 conference, billed as “User-Generated Health Care.” Organized by my pal Matthew Holt and his partner, Indu Subaiya, "Health 2.0" references "Web 2.0," social networking, applied to health care.  The meeting will feature top executives from high and low profile IT firms that either are already dedicated to or hope to play an important role in health care, like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, Cisco, WebMD, Revolution Health, AthenaHealth, Sermo, and many other lesser known organizations, all discussing their strategies for leveraging data in new ways to create value for all health care constituencies.Elsewhere, I’ve referred to this as a “significant portion of market-based heal... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=886212 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:31:08 +0100 886212 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=790533&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F8%2F9%2Fshow-me-yours-and-ill-show-you-mine-transparency-and-health-.html Brian Klepper Mention a health plan to doctors or hospital administrators, and they’ll likely bend your ear about how the performance feedback data they get from them are wrong, how their reimbursements are based on inaccurate data, and how they think the inaccuracies are intentional.Because they aggregate huge volumes of claims, health plans have the best patient and provider information. While many providers dismiss claims data as wholly inaccurate, they in fact contain a wealth of useful information about patients and their care that can be teased out using the very sophisticated analytical tools that are now readily available. These techniques permit credible evaluation of the relative performance of doctors by specialty and hospitals by service.  Virtually all analytic... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=790533 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:41:34 +0100 790533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764183&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F27%2Fdont-invite-anyone-from-health-care.html Brian KlepperLast year the Nevada Health Care Coalition in Reno asked me to work with them on a mid-October health care conference. They wanted to grow their coalition, and encourage their members to fund a data-mining project that would allow them to develop performance ratings on the region’s doctors (by specialty) and hospitals (by service).Typically in meetings like this, the host group invites a representative sampling of all the different major constituencies: doctors, hospitals, health plans and employers. I suggested an alternative. “Only invite the employers, and the C-suite executives, the corporate decision makers, at that. Don’t allow the employers to just send their benefits managers.”“Don’t invite anyone from health care. They’re too ... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764183 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:10:38 +0100 764183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=748890&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F22%2Fcrabby-doctors-and-the-explosion-of-big-practices.html Brian KlepperDoctors are a cranky bunch these days, and justifiably so. Their world is changing. Its undoubtedly less fun to be the object of a paradigm shift than its driver or observer.A recent survey showing healthy 2007 income increases across specialties notwithstanding, physicians are besieged by increasing patient loads, a torrent of new information, Byzantine administrative requirements, demands for new technology investments and the very real likelihood that their incomes will plummet under Medicare and commercial coverage P4P programs. Despite the apparently rosy survey numbers, its clear that many primary care physicians are having trouble making ends meet.  Many specialists are seeing their incomes drop as well. So its striking that, unlike a decade ago, there are rel... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=748890 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:27:45 +0100 748890 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=744793&cid=t_105103_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F19%2Fshould-we-have-health-care-performance-transparency-by-whom-.html Brian Klepper Last week the New York Times reported that the state's Attorney General (AG) office threatened UnitedHealthcare (UHC) with a lawsuit if it proceeded with the September release of a physician profiling report. The details were fuzzy, but apparently the AG was responding to charges by different physician groups – the AMA and the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society were named  - that UHC's methodology is based purely on cost and does not consider quality. The Times piece includes this snippet:Linda A. Lacewell, a senior lawyer in the office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, wrote in the letter that the ranking would apparently be used to steer consumers toward selected doctors. “To compound the situation,” she wrote, “we understand that em... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=744793 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:30:07 +0100 744793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486921&cid=t_105103_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F102298134%2F I don’t usually go for PR type items, but this one has me excited. I am a HUGE HUGE fan of Gapminder, and today I learn that another of my favorite companies, our good friends from Mountain View, have acquired the Gapminder software package, Trendalyzer, that I have mentioned in the past. I believe this is as much for the developers as the code itself. Trendalyzer has been available on Google for a while as a bit of a really cool toy. This is exciting and I would love to see how Google integrates the package into its suite of services, and what new ideas they can come up with. Here is a suggestion … Acquire Swivel and integrate it with Trendalyzer. Further reading:Data is often better than you thinkVisualizing data Technorati Tags: Google, Gapminder, Data, Visualization, Analyt... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486921 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:09:35 +0100 486921