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May 12, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
Once crash-preparedness planning begins, The Advisory Board Company’s Ernie Hood told Joe Conn, “It's like pulling the classic thread on a sweater, and you might think this is a relatively small issue and when you start pulling on it, then it starts to broaden—what if we have an earthquake or a pandemic?—and then it becomes an organizationwide planning process.” (Subscription required.)
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May 11, 2012 | iHealthBeat
Of the three tenets of meaningful use—adopt certified electronic health record technology, demonstrate core and menu set requirements, and report on clinical quality measures—adopting certified EHRs has proven more complicated than most providers anticipated, write The Advisory Board Company’s Marie Copoulos, Robin Raiford, and Protima Advani.
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May 9, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
The Advisory Board Company’s Paul Matsui told Jordan Rau that his firm has already started analyzing the data to see what factors were linked to more efficient hospitals.
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May 7, 2012 | The FasterCures blog
“Medicine will be transformed into an information science,” The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra said at the Milken Institute GlobalConference. “We’re going to be in a much more information-intensive market, and we need commensurate analytic horsepower.”
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May 4, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
A 90-day reporting period in the first year of Stage 2 meaningful use would have the effect of postponing hospitals' Oct. 1, 2013 start date for Stage 2, which has already been delayed a year, The Advisory Board Company’s Marie Copoulos told Ken Terry.
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May 3, 2012 | Imaging Business Health CXO
More than 400 health systems are actively engaged in researching and building the medical home, reports Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, who heads the Medical Home Project for The Advisory Board Company, Cheryl Proval reports.
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May 3, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company, a global consulting firm partnered with thousands of healthcare organizations, is awarding two hospitals and one health system for their work in delivering improved clinical outcomes at lower cost, the magazine reports.
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April 29, 2012 | Kaiser Health News/The Washington Post
"If you're a hospital and you're in a relationship with a health [insurance] plan, you've always got to be asking yourself, 'What is the health plan getting out of this relationship other than the transaction we're doing right now?'" The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jordan Rau.
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April 29, 2012 | Health Data Management
"Economic instability among physicians is a huge driver in the decision to give up private practice," The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz told Gary Baldwin.
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April 29, 2012 | njspotlight.com
An analysis from The Advisory Board Company estimates that less than 1% of U.S. hospitals will have a penalty of $1 million or more, about a quarter of the hospitals will see no penalty, and 50% of U.S. hospitals will see penalties ranging from $1 to $100,000, Beth Fitzgerald reports.
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April 27, 2012 | Health Data Management
If there was a common theme to an ICD-10 summit sponsored by The Advisory Board Company, it was the need to continue to press forward in the transition despite the delay, Gary Baldwin notes.
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April 27, 2012 | Washington Business Journal
The Advisory Board Company is helping the community by tapping its biggest resource: the skills of its employees. Its volunteer work, which goes all the way up to the company’s senior leadership, takes several forms, including pro bono consulting, board training, hands-on service, and charitable giving, Jim Bach reports.
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April 27, 2012 | Community Impact
One of the “national guys” that has expanded in Austin is The Advisory Board Company, a Washington, D.C.–based health care business consultancy, Amy Denney notes.
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April 24, 2012 | Federal News Radio
John Gilroy interviews Aneesh Chopra on his work with The Advisory Board Company and the economic benefits of open technology.
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April 23, 2012 | Tri-Sector Forum
Chopra emerged as a Tri-Sector Leader when he left his post as managing director of The Advisory Board Company, Tri-Sector Forum reports.
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April 18, 2012 | ICD-10 Watch
The Advisory Board Company’s Josh Gray lists five steps that health care providers can take to get ICD-10 implementation right.
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April 16, 2012 | Health Management Technology
The Advisory Board Company’s Josh Gray offers five implications of CMS's proposal to push back compliance to October 2014.
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April 13, 2012 | Chicago Tribune
If the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for insurance coverage goes away, it will lead to more health care providers limiting the number of Medicare patients they will serve, The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades tells Janet Kidd Stewart.
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April 10, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
As the ACOs take off and “people actually start to deliver care in a different way, it’s messy and complicated. There will be successes and failures, and it may go slower than policy-makers would like it to,” The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jenny Gold.
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April 7, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
A new CEO at Highmark could allow the firm’s board to hire someone with skills to manage Highmark as it seeks to expand as a health care provider, The Advisory Board Company’s Anthony D'Eredita told Melanie Evans (subscription required).
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April 6, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Peter Kilbridge, MD, told Ken Terry he was not surprised by the VA study's findings because most of them have already been documented in the literature. "The take-home lesson is that if you take a complex project and are not very careful, you can screw it up, and that can have an impact on patient safety," Kilbridge said.
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April 2, 2012 | American Medical News
“Physicians need to be looking with a critical eye,” The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, told Victoria Elliott. “Is the health system that I am aligning with going to be able to ensure my safety and my security across the next decade?”
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April 1, 2012 | Health Data Management
Primary care physicians may more easily meet the threshold of getting 10% of patients to access their own information, as patients increasingly want electronic communication with their PCP, The Advisory Board Company’s Protima Advani told Joe Goedert.
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April 1, 2012 | Employee Benefit News
A report from The Advisory Board Company shows that while vendor management is often overlooked by plan sponsors, the process can yield savings of between 5% and 10%, Andrea Davis reports.
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April 1, 2012 | Informatics Professor
A recent primer by The Advisory Board Company gives a good overview of analytics in the context of health care, William Hersh notes.
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April 2012 | Health Management Technology
While proposals for the next phase of core and menu set requirements largely mirror the direction from the Health IT Policy Committee’s recommendations from the summer of 2011, they are on the whole more aggressive, according to The Advisory Board Company’s Marie Copoulos, Protima Advani, Robin Raiford, and Tony Panjamapirom (see page 4).
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March 30, 2012 | Washington Business Journal
So what should you do? Stop everything you've done to prepare for the coming health care reforms? Not yet, says The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades.
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March 29, 2012 | Health Business Blog
While the SCOTUS posts are right up to the minute, two submitters take us back in time. Dan Diamond of The Advisory Board Company’s Daily Briefing dials us back to the Mad Men era of the early 1960s when the AMA approved TV scripts and half of adults smoked but few were obese. There’s a nifty infographic to sum it all up.
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March 28, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades believes Medicare’s new effort will improve quality in the long-term. But he cautioned Jordan Rau that it may take a while.
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March 28, 2012 | The Guardian (U.K.)
Dan Diamond of The Advisory Board Company emphasizes the importance of the debate over the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, Richard Adams notes.
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March 28, 2012 | eHealthSpace.org
According to Health-e-Nation keynote speaker, David Garets of The Advisory Board Company in the USA, dual initiatives of the federal government are the answer to the host of problems with American health care, Will Turner notes.
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March 25, 2012 | The Washington Post
“There was a patient mix shift happening that, unless hospitals changed, they were going to be losing money in about five years,” Chas Roades of The Advisory Board Company told Sarah Kliff.
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March 25, 2012 | Medical Economics
"Providers need to engage with their vendors as soon as possible on being prepared to meet this measure," The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford told Morgan Lewis.
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March 23, 2012 | Forbes.com
I was spurred to think about these differences because of The Advisory Board Company, which created a wonderful infographic that I’ve included below, Matthew Herper writes.
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March 23, 2012 | FierceHealthIT
Chris Boyer, director of digital marketing and communications at Inova Health System, says he's seen some financial returns on Twitter activity, according to an interview with the Daily Briefing, an online publication of The Advisory Board Company, Gienna Shaw notes.
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March 23, 2012 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company launches its Innovations in Impact grant program designed to reward best practice-driven initiatives that articulate measurable, quantitative outcomes goals. The application deadline for the $20,000-per-year grants is April 13.
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March 22, 2012 | The Atlantic
This week marks two major events. One is the second anniversary of something that's not that popular: the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. The second is the return to television of something that's far more popular: Mad Men. The clear solution is to combine them in one awesome infographic, David A. Graham writes of a Daily Briefing production.
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March 19, 2012 | Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Since a minimally invasive procedure requires smaller incisions than conventional surgery, patients may heal much faster (e.g., patients who underwent minimally invasive colectomy for colon cancer returned to work 5 to 26 days quicker than with a traditional procedure, according to a study conducted by The Advisory Board Company).
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March 17, 2012 | TMCnet
The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg sees “bring your own device” as the No. 1 issue in terms of mobility.
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March 15, 2012 | iHealthBeat
While proposals for the next phase of core and menu set requirements largely mirror the direction set by the Health IT Policy Committee's summer 2011 recommendations, they are, on the whole, more aggressive, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford and Marie Copoulos write.
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March 15, 2012 | The Wall Street Journal
For a five-physician practice, The Advisory Board Company projects the total first-year cost of a medical home to fall between $126,000 and $346,500, including two added health coaches, Anna Mathews reports.
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March 14, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
According to a recent analysis by HIMSS and The Advisory Board Company, "EMR Benefits and Benefit Realization Methods of Stage 6 and 7 Hospitals," a likely explanation for these conflicting reports is that most hospitals with EMRs are still implementing clinical decision support systems, Paul Cerrato reports.
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March 13, 2012 | Healthcare Briefings
According to the proposed regulations for Stage 2 meaningful use, CPOE will expand to encompass laboratory and radiology orders, and 60% of prescriptions must be entered, as well. “That’s a huge shift,” The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford told Jennifer Larsen.
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March 12, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
In Jennifer Prestigiacomo’s conversation with The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford about some of the biggest challenges of Stage 2 meaningful use, what Raiford mentioned, and what’s not surprising when you look at what eligible providers and hospitals deferred in Stage 1, was that patient engagement, care coordination, and quality measures were some of the main obstacles.
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March 12, 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle/Gate
Video: On the valley girl show, The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra celebrates Todd Park being named U.S. chief technology officer. The link between Chopra and Park was also reported by the New York Times, Health Data Management, Information Management, and ExecutiveGov.
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March 11, 2012 | Venture Valkyrie blog
The recognition of the importance of HIT to the health care system’s health was what led to the formation of the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT and, in part, what led to The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra’s role as the first U.S. chief technology officer, a role founded in 2009, Lisa Suennen writes.
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March 10, 2012 | Seattle Times
"There's going to be a huge demand for registered nurses," Jennifer Stewart, a managing director at The Advisory Board Company, told Sanjay Bhatt.
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March 9, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company’s Anthony D’Eredita noted to Jennifer Prestigiacomo that organizations need to attack three critical areas to achieve ACO success.
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March 9, 2012 | GigaOM
To improve medicine and health IT, we need a big heaping dose of data. That’s the takeaway from a conversation with The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra and Stacey Higginbotham.
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March 9, 2012 | The Hill
The February jobs growth in the health care sector marks a new record, according to The Advisory Board Company, Julian Pecquet reports. FierceHealthcare also cited the firm.
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March 7, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
Hospitals that deploy advanced electronic medical records report that they achieve a broad range of benefits from their e-record systems, according to a survey that was a joint effort from The Advisory Board Company and HIMSS Analytics. The research was also reported on by Health Management Technology, Healthcare IT News and InformationWeek Healthcare, Medical Imaging, FierceEMR, and Healthcare Technology Online.
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March 5, 2012 | EMR and HIPAA
The Advisory Board Company has a good blog post listing the 10 key takeaways on stage 2 of meaningful use, the blog reports.
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March 3, 2012 | National Journal
Chopra rejoined The Advisory Board Company, where he had spent nine years earlier in his career. As senior adviser for health care technology strategy, Chopra will advise the company’s members as they adapt to a value-based system, Christopher Snow Hopkins reports (subscription required).
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March 2, 2012 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company does a nice high-level summary of the proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2, nice for CIOs prepping peer execs for what the IT agenda will look like, Mr. HIStalk notes.
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March 2, 2012 | Government Health IT
Dave Garets, executive director at The Advisory Board Company, gave an overview of the current “State of the Health Care IT Union” in the U.S. at Cisco’s Connected Health Summit, Patty Enrado reports. Garets called the Direct Project—the point-to-point solution aimed at physician practices—a disintermediary.
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March 1, 2012 | Human Resources Executive
Over a year ago, Elaine Britt, director of benefits for Rice University in Houston, was informed by The Advisory Board Company that employees' ER visits over a two-year period were 12% higher than the national benchmark and cost an average of $1,400 per visit.
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March 1, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
HIMSS Analytics and The Advisory Board Company have published new research showing hospitals that have implemented advanced electronic medical record systems enjoy a broad range of benefits when it comes to clinical quality, patient safety and operational efficiencies, Mike Miliard reports. The study was also reported on by Medical Imaging, FierceEMR, and Healthcare Technology Online.
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March 1, 2012 | Health Imaging
Construction of a hybrid operating room is not for the faint-of-heart, evidenced by price tags ranging from $3.5 million to $5 million, The Advisory Board Company’s Ashley Ford told Lisa Fratt.
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March 1, 2012 | Strategic Financial Planning
There is often a big disconnect between an organization's activity and what the CFO is focusing on, The Advisory Board Company’s Shay Pratt told Lauren Phillips (subscription required).
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March 1, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed an increase in the summary of care record threshold, requiring that summaries be provided in 65% of transitions, 10% of which will need to be electronic, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford explained to Jennifer Prestigiacomo.
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March 1, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The requirements discussed by Dr. Mostashari and his team closely parallel the recommendations provided by the Health IT Standards Committee and Health IT Policy Committee, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford told Healthcare Informatics.
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February 29, 2012 | American Medical News
Straightforward boosts in physician payment are likely to be replaced by arrangements that involve physicians taking on risk, The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, told reporter Emily Berry.
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February 28, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg sees “BYOD” as the No. 1 issue in terms of mobility, David Raths reports.
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February 28, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
Beyond the fact of limited resources and bandwidth, there is also, industry-wide, an even deeper problem, The Advisory Board Company’s Peter Kilbridge told Mark Hagland.
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February 27, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company’s Jim Adams explains that there are three phases in what he calls the IT maturity model for accountable care, Jennifer Prestigiacomo notes.
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February 23, 2012 | Becker’s Hospital Review
QHN’s data-sharing “registry of registries,” which will be powered by The Advisory Board Company's Crimson Care Registry, will allow QHN participants in Colorado to optimize each patient's visit for a more comprehensive approach to health care, Jaimie Oh reports.
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February 23, 2012 | H&HN Daily blog
Thompson says that it is really the first time that anyone has looked not only at Stage 6 and 7 hospitals, but at the entire EMR.
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February 23, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company pointed out in a brief that the menu requirements from Stage 1 meaningful use will be core requirements in the proposed regulations for Stage 2, and some Stage 1 measures will be eliminated in Stage 2 to make room for new objectives, Jennifer Prestigiacomo reports.
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February 22, 2012 | Health Data Management
“The ACO represents a transfer of risk from the financiers of health care to the providers of health care,” The Advisory Board Company’s Rob Lazerow said during a HIMSS12 presentation, writes Gary Baldwin.
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February 21, 2012 | Health Data Management
Even the entry level IT needed to be an accountable care organization is sophisticated and would require a provider to be at Stage 6 or 7 on the EHR adoption scale, The Advisory Board Company’s Dave Garets said in a presentation attended by Gary Baldwin.
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February 20, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
Jennifer Prestigiacomo reports that The Advisory Board Company’s Rob Lazerow said in a HIMSS12 presentation that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has slew of accountable care projects available now; however, some might not be voluntary for long, and there is a competitive advantage for early participation.
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February 17, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
Aneesh Chopra, the former federal chief technology officer, is returning to the company as senior adviser of health care technology strategy, Jaimy Lee reports. The news was also noted by Healthcare Informatics, Washington Business Journal, Federal Computer Week, and ExecutiveGov.
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February 13, 2012 | CFO Forum
Ensuring sustainable financial health will require investments in care transformation, not just managing expenses, Laura Ramos Hegwer reports after an interview with The Advisory Board Company’s Tom Cassels.
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February 1, 2012 | Trustee
"The appeal of home-health monitoring is that it allows patients who are chronically ill and homebound to be monitored much more closely than they typically are today," The Advisory Board Company’s Jonathan Edwards tells John Morrissey.
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February 1, 2012 | Health Data Management
"You need I.T. beyond the revenue cycle," Jim Adams, a managing director at The Advisory Board Company, said to Editorial Director Gary Baldwin. "You need unified messaging, direct communication between provider to provider, manager to provider."
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January 27, 2012 | NPR Shots blog
Dan Diamond, managing editor of the Advisory Board Company's Daily Briefing, put together a graphic showing that the 44 words on health in this year's speech the president devoted to health care—accounting for 0.6% of the address—was by far the lowest of his presidency for State of the Union speeches.
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January 25, 2012 | Harvard Health blog
Thanks to word counter Dan Diamond, managing editor for the Advisory Board’s Daily Briefing, Harvard Health blogger P.J. Skerret learned that President Obama spent just 44 words on health reform. That’s far fewer than he’s used in the past (see illustration).
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January 9, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
Health systems—under pressure from an aging population, payment reform efforts, and slower reimbursement rate growth—are seeking to diversify beyond the typical delivery of acute-care services, Tom Cassels, an executive director at The Advisory Board Company, told reporter Melanie Evans (print subscription required).
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January 4, 2012 | HIStalk
Robert Musslewhite, CEO of The Advisory Board Company, and Paul Roscoe, CEO of the firm's Crimson division, discuss how the firm has evolved to become the preeminent provider of comprehensive performance improvement solutions for hospitals and health networks—and the key issues in strengthening hospital-physician alignment.
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January 1, 2012 | Hospitals & Health Networks
"The tension between independence and strategic relevance going forward is a huge hot-button issue for health system leaders and board members right now," The Advisory Board Company’s Tom Cassels told reporter Lola Butcher.
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December 19, 2011 | InformationWeek Healthcare
States have to submit voluminous paperwork to CMS to get funding for the meaningful use program, Robin Raiford, a director at The Advisory Board Company, explained to Contributing Editor Ken Terry.
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December 19, 2011 | Kaiser Health News/Washington Post
"The big confounding factors in readmissions are often nonclinical issues: 'I don't have anyone at home to take care of me,' 'I don't have any transportation,'" The Advisory Board Company’s chief research officer told Staff Writer Jordan Rau.
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December 19, 2011 | Kaiser Health News/Washington Post
“It’s a wide cross-section of all kinds of organizations,” Chas Roades, chief research officer with The Advisory Board Company, said to Staff Writer Jordan Rau.
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December 19, 2011 | Kaiser Health News/Washington Post
KHN devised its analysis after discussions with a number of experts, including Paul Matsui, executive director at The Advisory Board Company.
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December 12, 2011 | The Wall Street Journal
According to an Advisory Board survey of hospital and health system executives, 15% of institutions currently have an ACO in place and 13% are likely to do so by the end of 2012, Anna Mathews reports.
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December 8, 2011 | Healthcare Informatics
Some key results of Covenant Health System’s clinical integration program have been a reduced average length of stay by 1.1 days and the elimination of incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia cases for 18 months as a result of Covenant’s work with Crimson Continuum of Care and its Ambulatory module.
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December 5, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
This year, the Advisory Board began counseling clients—even those ready to attest in 2011—to hold off until 2012, citing the time squeeze and the lack of final Stage 2 meaningful use criteria, which are not expected to be published until summer 2012, Joe Conn reports. (subscription required)
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December 2, 2011 | Washington Business Journal
“That is the survival strategy for those safety-net hospitals; how can we invest enough in primary-care safety net services, so we’re really only using our inpatient beds for the appropriate cases?” The Advisory Board Company's Chief Research Officer Chas Roades told Ben Fischer.
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December 1, 2011 | Repertoire
Hospitals are responding vigorously to the challenges of current and future economics and expect their suppliers to do the same, The Advisory Board Company’s Fred Bentley tells Repertoire.
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November 23, 2011 | MobiHealthNews
Mobile and wireless technologies are helping give rise to a new form of clinical decision support that’s being called “patient activation,” Doug Thompson, senior director in The Advisory Board Company's Research and Insights division, told Neil Versel.
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November 22, 2011 | InformationWeek Healthcare
“Most of the hospitals I've talked to have either tested or are completing testing in December,” The Advisory Board Company’s Mike Davis tells Ken Terry.
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November 22, 2011 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The "bring your own device," or BYOD, phenomenon in hospitals has created a networking problem for CIOs by driving up demand on wireless LANs and has kept security officers busy because it's difficult to control all the data that flows to hundreds or thousands of handheld computers and smartphones, The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg explained to Neil Versel.
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November 15, 2011 | SmartPlanet
At Monday’s conference between 16 Spanish hospitals and The Advisory Board Company, one hospital administrator said, “There are more and more chronic disease patients, and there are many different ways to manage these diseases,” Jennifer Riggins notes.
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November 15, 2011 | SmartPlanet
David Willis, managing director of The Advisory Board Company, says that a “combination of economic and political uncertainty” makes it more crucial that Spanish hospitals look for creative solutions to shared problems, Jennifer Riggins reports.
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November 4, 2011 | Charlotte Business Journal
“The growth (in knee and hip replacements) over the past decade has been pretty overwhelming. It’s still likely to be a very high demand need in years to come,” Sean Buckley, a Research & Insights consultant at The Advisory Board Company, told Jennifer Thomas.
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October 28, 2011 | Washington Business Journal
While nurses take on higher-level tasks, hospitals will also create new positions a notch below the education and training levels of nurses to take over menial bedside duties, Jennifer Stewart, leader of the Nursing Executive Center at The Advisory Board Company, speculated to Ben Fischer.
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November 7, 2011 | The Washington Post Capital Business
Through the firm’s Community Impact Program, The Advisory Board Company employees filled out cards to service members stationed overseas, assembled snack bags for D.C. Central Kitchen and care packages for graduates of a college-preparatory program, planted trees, gardened at the National Arboretum, served lunch to people without homes at So Others May Eat, and taught interview skills at Samaritan Inns.
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October 27, 2011 | The Wall Street Journal
There's a strategic advantage to both payers and hospitals in maintaining confidentiality around pricing, The Advisory Board Company’s Chief Research Officer Chas Roades told reporter Anna Mathews, explaining that a hospital may not want a low rate granted to one health plan in a negotiation to be known to rival insurers, and vice versa.
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October 25, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
What employees love about The Advisory Board Company: Staff receive up to 10 hours comp time per month to volunteer during the work day at organizations of their choosing.
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October 24, 2011 | InformationWeek Healthcare
Fewer hospitals than expected are ready for meaningful use because of the scope of the program, The Advisory Board Company Consultant Marie Copoulos said in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare’s Ken Terry.
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October 21, 2011 | Health Data Management
The final regulations for the Medicare Shared Savings Program show that "CMS decided it was more important to get broader participation in this program," which may surpass the participation goal of 270 accountable care organizations, The Advisory Board Company’s Chief Research Officer Chas Roades commented to Health Data Management reporter Joseph Goedert.
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October 20, 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks Daily
"I think CMS brought ACOs back to life," The Advisory Board Company’s Chief Research Officer Chas Roades tells Hospitals & Health Networks editor Matthew Weinstock.
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October 3, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
Ed Hock, director of Revenue Cycle Solutions for The Advisory Board Company, tells reporter Joe Conn that providers can do dry runs and tests on how ICD-10 will affect revenue, and “a little of that is being done across the country, but I think it really comes down to systems.” (subscription required)
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October 3, 2011 | Becker's Hospital Review
Although mass layoffs have subsided since August 2010, there were still 13 hospital mass layoffs in August 2011, according to an Advisory Board Company report cited by Bob Herman and HealthLeaders Media.
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October 2, 2011 | Washington Post
A Capital Business photo gallery captures Robert Musslewhite, CEO of The Advisory Board Company, at his corner office in Northwest Washington.
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October 1, 2011 | Managed Healthcare Executive
A survey by The Advisory Board Company indicates that 42% of medical home practices report having a pharmacist as part of the care team, while just 21% of the typical practices did so, Mari Edlin reports.
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September 26, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company issued guidance urging its clients to wait until fiscal 2012 before starting their climb up the meaningful use staircase, Joe Conn observes.
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September 21, 2011 | Modern Healthcare IT Everything Blog
Protima Advani, director or strategic research for The Advisory Board Company, says the advice to wait until 2012 to attest for stage 1 meaningful use still holds, Joe Conn reports.
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September 14, 2011 | Kaiser Health News/Politico
The Advisory Board Company estimates that between 30 and 50 organizations have applied for the Pioneer program, based on informal surveys of clients and conversations with Innovation Center employees, Chief Research Officer Chas Roades told Kaiser Health News’ Jenny Gold.
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September 13, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
A new federally mandated version of ICD-10—codes that hospitals and doctors use to describe medical services in bills they send to insurers—will expand the number of codes to around 140,000, including one for recording that a patient's injury occurred in a chicken coop, the Wall Street Journal observes.
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September 12, 2011 | HIStalk
Dave Garets, executive director of The Advisory Board Company’s Health Care IT Program Suite, is “quietly putting together a dream team of industry heavyweights in Mike Davis, Jim Adams, Jim Klein, Ernie Hood, Peter Kilbridge, Ken Kleinberg, Doug Thompson, and Daphne Lawrence,” HIStalk relays.
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September 7, 2011 | HIStalk
Covenant Health System and Memorial Hermann Healthcare System have developed clinical integration programs utilizing Crimson physician performance technologies from The Advisory Board Company, HIStalk reports.
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September 6, 2011 | CQ HealthBeat
Valinda Rutledge, director of the Patient Care Models Group at the Innovation Center, said on a call hosted by The Advisory Board Company that a new project announced Aug. 23 that will test the concept of bundled payments is just an initial step, Rebecca Adams writes for CQ HealthBeat. (subscription required)
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September 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks
"The problem is not in bringing systems to ICD-10 compliance—that's cake, that's not the challenge," says Mike Davis, managing director of The Advisory Board Company's Applications and Technologies Collaborative. "The challenge is the physician documentation to represent the specificity needed by the coders to accurately code ICD-10," Hospitals & Health Networks reports.
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August 15, 2011 | Government Health IT
The first baseline information requirement for value-based purchasing is the ability to capture clinical data, and the second is the ability to somehow extract it, said Jim Adams, managing director of strategic research for the Advisory Board Company, John Morrison reports.
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August 11, 2011 | washingtonpost.com
Hospitals are paying closer attention to providing more efficient, coordinated care, says Matthew Eirich, executive director of The Advisory Board Company’s Health Care Advisory Board, writes Sarah Kliff.
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August 11, 2011 | InformationWeek Healthcare
"There's a huge flood of interest in using tablets and smartphones by physicians," Kenneth Kleinberg, a consultant with The Advisory Board Company, told Ken Terry.
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August 10, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
St. Thomas Health, Nashville, is creating a new partnership akin to an accountable care organization that includes Crimson services, a division of The Advisory Board Company, reports Modern Healthcare’s Vince Galloro, The Tennessean’s Getahn Ward, The Nashville Post’s Walker Duncan, Becker’s Hospital Review’s Molly Gamble, and the Health Care Strategist blog’s Steve Davis. (free registration required)
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August 4, 2011 | Nashville Post
Physician practice management firm PivotHealth has been acquired by The Advisory Board Company, writes the Nashville Post’s Geert De Lombaerde, the Nashville Business Journal, the Nashville Medical News, and the Tennessean’s G. Chambers Williams III.
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August 3, 2011 | Healthcare Briefings
“Hospitals operate on a 1% to 2% positive margin, and the thought of losing millions of dollars related to this change is a scary one for organizations,” Ed Hock, director of revenue cycle solutions at The Advisory Board Company, told Debra Wood, RN.
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July 31, 2011 | The Washington Post
When hospitals discharge patients, they typically see their job as done. But soon they could be on the hook for what happens after Medicare patients leave the premises, and particularly if they are re-admitted within a month, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau reports for The Washington Post.
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July 27, 2011 | JAMA
“What we're trying to get at here are items that are going to enlarge upon a global sense of feeling better,” said lead author Donald E. Nease Jr, MD. (subscription required)
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July 27, 2011 | USA Today
Health care providers are embracing accountable care organizations, a key part of last year's health care law, as they try to control rising Medicare and health care costs, Kelly Kennedy writes in USA Today.
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July 22, 2011 | National Journal
Hospitals and doctors have little choice under last year’s health care law but to play nice with each other, writes National Journal’s Meghan McCarthy. (subscription required)
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July 18, 2011 | National Journal
As the Obama administration struggles to encourage hospitals and doctors to sign on to one of the major components of the health care law – the accountable-care organizations – the Federal Trade Commission just may have an easier route for the majority that are finding the whole process a little daunting, Meghan McCarthy reports for National Journal. (subscription required)
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July 1, 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks
Most health care observers say that the Partnership for Patients' overall goals—a 40 percent reduction in health care-acquired conditions and a 20 percent reduction in readmissions by the end of 2013—are ambitious, but feasible, Ken Terry writes in Hospitals & Health Networks.
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June 28, 2011 | Health Data Management
Ask C-level health care provider executives what two or three information technology issues are most top-of-mind for them and cause sleepless nights, and the answer may be more varied than anticipated, writes Health Data Management’s Joe Goedert.
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June 13, 2011 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company connection to HIStalk is its Crimson Initiative, a physician performance management analytics solution that gives hospitals (and their physicians) a 360-degree view of physician performance measures such as patient satisfaction, compliance with order sets, and adherence to key quality and utilization metrics, “Mr. HIStalk” writes.
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June 13, 2011 | NPR (WKSU)
Chas Roades, Chief Research Officer for the Advisory Board Company, says recent changes in the way the federal government pay hospitals are putting a lot of stress on smaller hospitals across the country, Anna Staver reports for Cleveland NPR affiliate WKSU.
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June 7, 2011 | The New York Times
The decision by one of the nation’s leading health care systems to close a neighborhood hospital, once a relatively rare event, reflects a stark new reality that is likely to play out across the country at hundreds of other hospitals that can no longer afford empty beds or wings and unused medical services, Reed Abelson writes for The New York Times.
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June 7, 2011 | Healthcare Briefings
Many healthcare experts agree that the Medicare and Medicaid incentive plans are helping to drive up the number of EHR adoptions. But hospitals and healthcare providers need to be ready to shoulder much of the expense on their own, Linda Beattie writes for Healthcare Briefings.
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June 3, 2011 | Healthcare Informatics
Healthcare Informatics ranks The Advisory Board Company as No. 51 among health care IT providers by revenue.
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June 3, 2011 | The Wall Street Journal
Hospitals and doctors are pushing back against an Obama administration initiative that urges them to create new organizations to coordinate the care of groups of Medicare patients, Anna Mathews reports for The Wall Street Journal.
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June 2, 2011 |Healthcare IT News
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Western Connecticut Health Network’s Danbury Hospital were recently recognized for their use of IT to bring meaningful data to their physicians, leading to a boost in hospital efficiency and millions in savings without compromising patient care, Molly Merrill writes for Healthcare IT News.
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May 9, 2011 | Healthcare Informatics
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital improves cost and quality through a performance initiative that uses Crimson Clinical Advantage from The Advisory Board Company, writes Healthcare Informatics’ Jennifer Prestigiacomo.
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May 2, 2011 | Modern Healthcare
In a recent paper, "Not so Fast—Why it Pays To Wait Until 2012 on Meaningful Use," published in February by the Advisory Board Company, Protima Advani argues that providers would benefit by waiting a year before applying for federal incentive funding, Sharp HealthCare CIO William Spooner writes in Modern Healthcare. (free subscription required)
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April 27, 2011 | Healthcare Informatics
Danbury Hospital used Crimson Clinical Advantage to improve its bottom line by $2.9 million, Jennifer Prestigiacomo reports for Healthcare Informatics.
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April 26, 2011 | Healthcare IT News
Western Connecticut Health Network's Danbury Hospital was recently recognized for its use of IT to bring meaningful data to its physicians. According to the hospital's CMO, the project "reduced unnecessary variations in care, without sacrificing quality outcome," Healthcare IT News’ Molly Merrill writes.
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April 18, 2011 | Cardiovascular Business
“Today, cardiovascular services sit on the precipice of change,” said Brian Contos, executive director of The Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C., April 15 at the annual leadership meeting of the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA), Cardiovascular Business reports.
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April 1, 2011 | Clinical Oncology News
For oncology practices, the discouraging reimbursement landscape may at last have some hopeful glimmers, Bruce Buckley writes for Clinical Oncology News.
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April 1, 2011 | Health Data Management
At a February HIMSS11 session on accountable care organizations packed with provider IT execs, the speaker asked how many were planning to be part of an accountable care organization. Nearly all raised their hands, Health Data Management’s Joe Goedert writes.
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April 1, 2011 | National Journal
Regulations released on Thursday have set the bar high for accountable-care organizations, requiring all participants to take on some financial risk. That may mean only the big players will get to play on the new field, at least at first, writes National Journal’s Meghan McCarthy. (subscription required)
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March 31, 2011 | Health Data Management
What was notable during today's conference call announcing the proposed accountable care organization rule is that CMS officials tried to allay concerns of commercial payers that ACOs would have too much pricing power in their local markets, says Chas Roades, Chief Research Officer, Health Care, at The Advisory Board Company, Greg Gillespie reports for Health Data Management.
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March 10, 2011 | Oncology Times
If the term “cancer care pathway” seems to be ubiquitous already, brace yourself for the future, Lola Butcher writes for Oncology Times.
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March 1, 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks
They are big. They are expensive. They are controversial. And they are viewed by some as the newest form of a medical arms race: proton cancer centers, Lola Butcher reports for Hospitals & Health Networks.
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March 1, 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks
What if you were able to segment your physician data in such a way that you could learn which of your top performing physicians were splitting their business with other hospitals; or which of your most loyal physicians were serious outliers in say, high length of stay, poor patient satisfaction or clinical quality, Christina Roman asks in Hospitals & Health Networks.
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January 1, 2011 | Hospitals & Health Networks
Building an accountable care organization is viewed by many hospital executives as the holy grail as they try to figure out how to better manage patient care across the continuum and as they brace for the growth in bundled payments, Ken Terry writes for Hospitals & Health Networks.
