What if your hospital couldn’t reliably perform any of the top three Hospital National Patient Safety Goals, as specified by the Joint Commission, above –...
Author - Mandi Bishop
Mandi Bishop is a hardcore health data geek with a Master's in English and a passion for big data analytics, which she brings to her role as Dell Health’s Analytics Solutions Lead. She fell in love with her PCjr at 9 when she learned to program in BASIC. Individual accountability zealot, patient engagement advocate, innovation lover and ceaseless dreamer. Relentless in pursuit of answers to the question: "How do we GET there from here?" More byte-sized commentary on Twitter: @MandiBPro.
Eyes Wide Shut – Making the Most of Meaningful Use, for Healthcare Providers, Insurers, and Patients
When I ask a room of 100 health plan leaders, “how many of you know what HL7 is,” and only a third raise their hands, I realize there had been a...
July 1, 2015 – the start of the Meaningful Use Stage 1 Year 2 reporting period for the hospital facilities within this provider integrated delivery network...
As one of the inaugural crop of HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, a second-generation native Floridian, and a former Orlando resident, it is my sworn duty to...
In my January update on Meaningful Use Stage 2 readiness, I painted a dismal picture of a large IDN’s journey towards attestation, and expressed concern for...
Happy New Year? As I begin the 2014 Meaningful Use measures readiness assessment and vendor cat-herding exercises, I’m reflecting on this portion of CMS’s...
In a recent hangout with John Lynn discussing Healthcare Big Data and Meaningful Use Challenges, he asked me why incorporating more agile development practices...
Most discussions on Meaningful Use (MU) seem to focus on a single healthcare provider organization (acute or ambulatory), with a single EMR, and a single...
According to Twitter analytics, one of my more engaging tweets recently stated that Meaningful Use is stifling innovation by requiring that health IT vendors...
Again and again, I find myself expounding upon the need to differentiate between the “letter of the law” and the “spirit of the law” of Meaningful Use Stage 2...