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May 8, 2013 | NPR's Talk of the Nation
Recent news may “push us in the right direction, which is more transparency around cost and quality in health care,” The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Neal Conan. “But I think a really important thing to bear in mind about this whole discussion is that there really are no prices, at least in the hospital part of the health care industry.”
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May 1, 2013 | Washingtonian
The Advisory Board Company CEO Robert Musslewhite ranks among the honorees for this biennial feature on the most influential technology figures in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
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May 1, 2013 | International Innovation
The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades gives his perspective on how recent technological breakthroughs are changing the nature of U.S. health care, along with other critical trends (see page 174).
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Apr. 27, 2013 | The New York Times
The "Boss" series profiles The Advisory Board Company CEO Robert Musslewhite, the influences on his leadership style and the firm’s recent growth.
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Apr. 9, 2013 | Boston Globe/Associated Press
As part of the “Healthy Rhode Island” initiative, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts, chair of the R.I. Healthcare Reform Commission, announced Tuesday that the state has partnered with The Advisory Board Co. to focus on health care innovation. The story was also covered by Providence Journal and Providence Business News.
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Apr. 9, 2013 | Nashville Medical News
From the beginning, MissionPoint Health Partners brought together stakeholders with different skill sets to create an integrated care delivery system. Cisco Systems Inc. is an advanced telemedicine platform. Crimson Services, part of The Advisory Board Company, provides aggregate quality, performance and cost metrics, Cindy Sanders writes.
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Apr. 9, 2013 | Hospitals and Health Networks
Experts say that hospitals shouldn't get too caught up in just acing the HCAHPS survey, and should look at measures beyond that aren't addressed there. While each of the HCAHPS measures is admittedly important, enhancing the patient experience should not be limited to pursuing just these measures, according to the Advisory Board Company, Marty Stempniak reports.
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Apr. 8, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
Mobile devices are no longer a supplemental way for the public to access information – they’ve become central, and for healthcare providers trying to connect to patients, that’s an opportunity, The Advisory Board Company’s Ken Kleinberg told Paul Cerrato. The story also appeared in mHIMSS.
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Apr. 2, 2013 | Newswise
Meridian Health Affiliated Foundations in partnership with the Advisory Board in Washington DC, held a combined board summit on March 20, for 90 trustees from across the health system at Wilson Hall on the campus of Monmouth University.
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Apr. 1, 2013 | Health Data Management
On the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative: "It's the largest voluntary Medicare accountable care model, "The Advisory Board Company’s Rob Lazerow told Gary Baldwin. "It has nearly twice as many provider organizations compared to those participating in the shared savings program. It represents a big spike in experimentation."
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Apr. 1, 2013 | Reuters
All told, 25 governors have indicated support for Medicaid expansion, 15 say they are not participating and 10 states have not decided, according to the Advisory Board Company.
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Mar. 28, 2013 | InformationWeek
UPMC has a joint venture with the Advisory Board Company called Evolent Health that markets UPMC's platforms for providing accountable care along with consulting developed through the Advisory Board to help caregivers manage this new realm, Chris Murphy writes.
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Mar. 26, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
“The clear pattern we’re seeing among the hospitals we work with is that they are using their incentive payments to fund current and future IT initiatives,” The Advisory Board Company’s Jim Adams told Paul Cerrato. This story also appeared in Healthcare Finance News and Government Health IT.
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Mar. 26, 2013 | The Hill
Another three states are leaning against not participating, while two are leaning toward it, according to The Advisory Board Company, Elise Viebeck writes.
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Mar. 20, 2013 | Politico
The Advisory Board Company is ranked third.
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Mar. 13, 2013 | Healthcare Informatics
This week, HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland spoke with The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford about federal healthcare officials’ aggressive policy push, as announced at HIMSS13.
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Mar. 9, 2013 | Austin American Statesman
Even now, Texas is hardly alone in resisting Medicaid expansion. According to tracking by The Advisory Board Company, as of last week, 24 states have agreed to expansion, and four are leaning that way, while 14 states – including a band of Southern states from Texas to North Carolina – are not participating, and three are leaning against participating. Five states are undecided.
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Mar. 5, 2013 | A Billion + Change blog
Imagine if your employer (or you, if you are the employer) announced a company-wide contest to win $15,000. The challenge? Volunteering your skills and talents to help build a nonprofit’s capacity to address a social issue. That's just what the Advisory Board Company has done. It issued a challenge to have 100 percent of its employees participate in service, Graham McLaughlin writes.
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Mar. 5, 2013 | MobiHealth News
“Mobile can give access to portals,” The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg told Neil Versel.
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Mar. 5, 2013 | The Kennebec Journal
Florida and New Jersey increased to 28 the number of states that have agreed to or are leaning toward Medicaid expansion, according to the Advisory Board Company, Steve Mistler notes.
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Mar. 4, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
Vendors have had their own proprietary approaches in many cases because they want everyone to stay in their family of products, The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg said in a HIMSS13 session, Mary Mosquera reports.
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Mar. 4, 2013 | ICD-10 Monitor
The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock said at a HIMSS13 presentation, “Providers should ask clearinghouse and payer trading partners when they will be ready to start receiving claims in ICD-10” said Hock. “And while no one has all the technology in place to conduct complete end-to-end testing, everyone can take small steps and start where they are, even if it takes manual efforts,” Beth Friedman reports.
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Mar. 4, 2013 | Massachusetts eHealth Institute Community blog
The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford shared a great Meaningful Use downloadable white board PDF. Anyone can use this tool to better understand Meaningful Use requirements and share with folks who are new to the industry or just getting into all the details and changing requirements, Laura Polas writes.
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Mar. 3, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
Financial pain points can affect contracting, denials, under-coding, and over-coding, according to The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock, Mary Mosquera notes. He recommended first defining a strategy to address the issue.
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Mar. 3, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
How could an incentive program, issued just a few short years ago, have as many nuances and intricacies as federal tax code? Yet that's what came to mind as extremely adept speaker Robin Raiford of The Advisory Board Company, disseminated rapid-fire information at rapt attendees of her section of the symposium, titled "Meaningful Use Stage 2–Ready or Not, Here it Comes!" Diana Manos writes.
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Mar. 3, 2013 | Clinical Innovation+Technology
Meaningful use (MU) Stage 2 is in the headlights, cautioned The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford at HIMSS13. Raiford opened the session by chastising those griping about MU: "This is about patients. Practicing medicine without an EHR is like functioning without a brain."
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Mar. 2, 2013 | Boston Globe
“There’s going to be a lot of kabuki theater and discussion, but until that basic framework has been agreed to, I wouldn’t count on it happening this year,” The Advisory Board Company’s Frederick Isasi told Tracy Jan.
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Mar. 1, 2013 | Health Data Management
For many observers, health games have an undeniable appeal. For The Advisory Board Company’s Ken Kleinberg, it boils down to human nature. To Kleinberg, the term "games" may sound trivial. "But think about Weight Watchers or AA, where people challenge each other to get better," he told Gary Baldwin.
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Mar. 1, 2013 | Endovascular Today
The Advisory Board Company’s Brian Contos provides the outlook.
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Feb. 28, 2013 | Bloomberg News
The decisions within the past week by Rick Scott and Chris Christie bring to 25 the number of states participating in the expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor, according to a tally by The Advisory Board Company, Shannon Pettypiece notes.
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Feb. 28, 2013 | Wichita (Kan.) Eagle
Among states, the decision to participate in expansion is split, with 13 states not participating, five states leaning toward not participating, three states leaning toward participating, six states undecided and 23 states and the District of Columbia participating, according to The Advisory Board Company, Kelsey Ryan notes.
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Feb. 27, 2013 | iHealthBeat
The latest version of The Advisory Board Company’s Medicaid expansion map is embedded.
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Feb. 26, 2013 | Crain's Chicago Business
If you're not aligned with a hospital, “you get worried your referral streams could get cut off,” The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, told Kristen Schorsch. Nationwide, the percentage of hospital-employed specialists increased nearly fivefold, to 24 percent of working physicians, from 2000 to 2012, according to the Advisory Board. Meanwhile, the percentage of hospital-employed primary care physicians more than doubled, to 40 percent, during the same time period, the company says.
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Feb. 26, 2013 | Governing
In total, 24 governors have said they will accept the expansion, while 14 have said they won't, according to tracking by the Advisory Board Company, Dylan Scott writes.
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Feb. 23, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
In entering a deal with a distressed company, Highmark risks closing the deal only to uncover problems that did not surface in vetting it, The Advisory Board Company’s Tom Cassels told Melanie Evans.
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Feb. 22, 2013 | Washington Post
Thirteen states, mostly in the South, have so far opted out of the Medicaid expansion, according to The Advisory Board Company, Dana Milbank reports.
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Feb. 22, 2013 | Healthcare Informatics
Many are hopeful that the concept will stretch beyond the VA. Along with the ONC itself, organizations such as The Advisory Board Company have used the Blue Button concept to run developer challenges. The idea behind these challenges is to encourage software developers to use data to create patient-friendly apps. “The Blue Button, all of a sudden, is promising to do what we’ve possibly talked about for years. That’s getting patients, families, and patient advocates in the center of driving healthcare,” says The Advisory Board Company’s David Chao, Ph.D.
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Feb. 22, 2013 | The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Twenty-three states have signed on to expand Medicaid and three more are “leaning” toward participating, according to The Advisory Board Company.
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Feb. 22, 2013 | Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer Times
As of Wednesday, 13 states are rejecting the Medicaid expansion, five are leaning against it, three are leaning for it and 23 plus Washington have accepted it. The figures are from The Advisory Board Company, Paul Woolverton writes.
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Feb. 22, 2013 | NBC News
Currently, 13 states, all with Republican governors, have made it clear that they will not expand Medicaid, according to The Advisory Board Company: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin, Maggie Fox notes.
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Feb. 21, 2013 | The Atlantic
The Advisory Board Company posts this map of where states stand on the Medicaid expansion, Elspeth Reeve notes.
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Feb. 21, 2013 | National Journal
Scott, who rose to the governor’s mansion on an anti-Obamacare campaign, also led the legal effort to overturn the president’s health reform law last year. Without the multistate lawsuit led by Florida, expanding state Medicaid programs would never have been optional. Now, he is one of seven Republican governors who have endorsed expanding their programs, Margot Sanger-Katz writes, linking to The Advisory Board Company’s Medicaid expansion map.
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Feb. 20, 2013 | Bloomberg News
Scott joins six other Republican governors who have agreed to expand Medicaid, the federal-state health plan for the poor, according to a tally by The Advisory Board Company, Michael C. Bender writes.
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Feb. 20, 2013 | Deseret News
Projections by The Advisory Board Company indicate that 13 states have decided not to participate in a Medicaid expansion program, five are leaning toward not participating, three might expand and 23 are decidedly embracing the optional federal health care law provision to expand Medicaid, Wendy Leonard writes.
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Feb. 18, 2013 | Quad City Times
According to The Advisory Board Company, Iowa is one of 18 states that is either against or leaning against Medicaid expansion as of last week. Six states are undecided, and the remaining states are either for or leaning toward expansion. This news also appeared in Sioux City Journal and Mason City Globe Gazette.
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Feb. 15, 2013 | Columbus Dispatch
So far, 21 states and the District of Columbia are set to make the move next year, according to The Advisory Board Company, Tony Pugh reports.
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Feb. 14, 2013 | The Atlantic
Scripps isn't the only hospital system trying to get control of health care costs, but it's one of the leaders. "Scripps is on the cutting edge of health system management today," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades Chas Roades told Russ Mitchell.
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Feb. 8, 2013 | Washington Business Journal
Health care reform has refocused a customer-service movement that dates back more than a decade, The Advisory Board Company’s Zac Stillerman told Ben Fischer.
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Feb. 7, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
Tackling Stage 2 in a HIMSS13 session titled “Ready or Not Here it Comes,” The Advisory Board Company’s Robin S. Raiford plans to outline how the changes that take effect in 2014 relate to reporting requirements, as well as offer advice on completing the patient engagement aspects of Stage 2.
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Feb. 7, 2013 | Health Data Management
Republican governors in Arizona, Nevada, North Dakota and New Mexico have also agreed to participate in the Medicaid expansion, according to a tally by The Advisory Board Company. Including Democratic governors, 21 states will expand the number of people eligible for the health program.
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Feb. 6, 2013 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company announced this afternoon that it has acquired clinical analytics vendor 360Fresh of Palo Alto, Calif.
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Feb. 6, 2013 | Points of Light blog
Does a global Corporate Social Responsibility strategy truly yield the most external social good and internal business benefit? Or should a company also consider how to make a meaningful difference in its own backyard? The Advisory Board Company’s Graham McLaughlin finds for the latter.
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Feb. 5, 2013 | Washington Post
Ten states have opted out of Medicaid expansion. Eleven more, according to The Advisory Board Company, are sitting on the fence — and that includes a few with Democratic governors, like West Virginia, Sarah Kliff writes.
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Feb. 4, 2013 | Becker's Hospital Review
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have said they will participate in Medicaid expansion, according to The Advisory Board Company, Lisa Bernard-Kuhn writes.
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Feb. 4, 2013 | USA Today
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have said they will participate in Medicaid expansion, according to The Advisory Board Company, Lisa Bernard-Kuhn writes.
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Feb. 1, 2013 | Health Data Management
However industry payment models unfold, documentation and coding will remain a big industry bone of contention in the years ahead, The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock told Gary Baldwin.
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Jan. 25, 2013 | Washington Business Journal
At The Advisory Board Company, the employees, not dollar signs, drive the philanthropic program, Charlotte Kelly writes. The firm extends its business expertise in health care and higher education to volunteer work through pro bono projects, hands-on assistance, board service and charitable giving.
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Jan. 23, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
Last fall, Aneesh Chopra, now a senior adviser for healthcare technology strategy at The Advisory Board Company, predicted Blue Button would expand beyond its original ASCII format and offer multiple forms of record-sharing in which the patient has control, with the potential of it becoming a common, and maybe even the predominant, method for health information exchange, Joe Conn writes.
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Jan. 23, 2013 | Health Data Management
Many industry stakeholders try to over-simplify the dynamics of the health information exchange market, The Advisory Board Company’s Kenneth Kleinberg told Joe Goedert.
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Jan. 23, 2013 | The Washington Post
Possible successors for U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk include Fred Hochberg, Francisco Sanchez, and Jeff Zients, former CEO of The Advisory Board Company, and now acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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Jan. 20, 2013 | The Washington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s Mary Van Hoose told Sarah Halzack that career pathing has been a key component of the firm’s retention strategy. In fact, the firm promoted about 40 percent of its staff last year as part of that effort.
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Jan. 16, 2013 | Information Week Healthcare
Though pushback remains, EMR adoption has advanced since the Meaningful Use program began in 2011. This growth has created an "explosion" of patient data, according to The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, Neil Versel writes.
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Jan. 3, 2013 | Kaiser Health News
Medicare officials "knew right from the get-go there was going to be some incentive to put more codes on the claims, make sure you have all the different complications and" other illnesses, The Advisory Board Company’s Paul Matsui told Jordan Rau. "They knew that was going to look like a rise" in the severity of the patients' conditions, he said.
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Jan. 1, 2013 | Healthcare IT News
A consensus model for adoption of analytics capabilities could help health care leaders and vendors succeed by providing a common road map for beneficial deployment of critical capabilities writes The Advisory Board Company’s Jim Adams and three coauthors.
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Dec. 25, 2012 | GOOD
A young and energetic marketing team participated in a “Branding Blitz,” a 24-hour pro bono marathon session that was part of The Advisory Board Company’s Week of Service in October.
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Dec. 23, 2012 | The Washington Post
More than 1,600 workers participated in almost 4,000 hours of community service during the annual week of service at The Advisory Board Company. Staffers gave their time to 61 organizations that week.
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Dec. 21, 2012 | Investor's Business Daily
The spirit of generosity is important to Robert Musslewhite, CEO of The Advisory Board Company, Sonja Carberry writes.
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Dec. 20, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
Some say because Medicare insures so many hospital patients, executives have no choice but to respond to the incentives. "It has definitely captured the attention of the industry," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jordan Rau for a story that also appeared in Healthcare Finance News.
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Dec. 18, 2012 | The Washington Post
Forty-five percent of all inpatient admissions in the United States are conducted using The Advisory Board Company’s technology platforms, The Washington Post reports in naming the firm 55th among the Post 200, the D.C. region’s largest employers by revenue.
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Dec. 12, 2012 | Huffington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded at the end of the article.
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Dec. 12, 2012 | Huffington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded at the end of the article.
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Dec. 10, 2012 | Reuters
The acting director of Obama's budget office, Zients was a management consultant who amassed a fortune running The Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board management consulting firms and could play a role should the president seek to reorganize the Commerce Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative into a consolidated business-oriented government agency.
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Dec. 10, 2012 | Huffington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded near the middle of the article.
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Dec. 7, 2012 | Huffington Post
The health care sector added 290,000 jobs this year through November, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by The Advisory Board Company, Jeffrey Young reports.
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Dec. 5, 2012 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company’s Southwind program recognizes Dignity Health (Calif.), Adirondack Region Medical Home Pilot (N.Y.), and Lancaster General Health (Pa.) for successful physician partnerships, blogger Mr. HIStalk notes.
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Dec. 4, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
Findings from a KLAS report show that The Advisory Board Company is among the top firms chosen by providers for ICD-10 support, Erin McCann reports.
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Dec. 1, 2012 | Benefits magazine
Several infographics from The Advisory Board Company’s Health Care Advisory Board are included in the article (subscription required).
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Nov. 29, 2012 | Politico
Lot of chatter in the system that Jeffrey Zients, the highly regarded head of the White House Office of Management and Budget and former CEO of The Advisory Board Company, is the top candidate to head the Commerce Department in the second Obama administration, Ben White notes.
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Nov. 29, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Documentation of meaningful use claims can take the form of screen capture shots showing particular functions and query reports listing patients enrolled in various areas of the system, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford told Joel Schectman.
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Nov. 29, 2012 | Huffington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded at the end of the article.
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Nov. 29, 2012 | Health 2.0
Video of The Advisory Board Company’s David Chao announcing the winner of the Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge.
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Nov. 28, 2012 | Teletracking blog
According to The Advisory Board Company, “an aging population coupled with coverage expansion will dramatically reshape hospitals’ payer mixes,” Valerie Fritz notes.
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Nov. 27, 2012 | Giving Tuesday
We will be doing skills-based service projects with Teach for America-DC and Focal Point Global, both 501c3s, The Advisory Board Company reports.
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Nov. 27, 2012 | GetInsured.com
We recently came across a couple of great resources for learning about the latest health insurance exchange developments around the country. They include: The Advisory Board Company, which just published a summary of state-by-state activities regarding exchanges and Medicaid expansion, the blog notes.
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Nov. 27, 2012 | push-hc4allpa.blogspot.com
We recently came across a couple of great resources for learning about the latest health insurance exchange developments around the country. They include: The Advisory Board Company, which just published a summary of state-by-state activities regarding exchanges and Medicaid expansion, the blog notes.
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Nov. 27, 2012 | GetInsured.com
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded in the article.
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Nov. 26, 2012 | Huffington Post
Eleven states and the District of Columbia plan to enact the Medicaid expansion in 2014 or already have started, and the remainder are undecided, according to The Advisory Board Company, Jeffrey Young reports.
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Nov. 21, 2012 | DCMilitary.com
A large group of people braced the wind Nov. 16 in order to bring new life to Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. About 60 volunteers were on base—from graduate horticulture students to master gardeners; members of Tree Stewards of Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax and Casey Trees Citizen Foresters; Park Construction Company; The Advisory Board Company; and Calvert Company, Rhonda Apple reports.
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Nov. 20, 2012 | Government Health IT
Nicholas Bartz, senior analyst at The Advisory Board Company, pointed out that to qualify for reimbursement, radiologists still must collect “a staggering amount of new patient data, much of which is outside their clinical practice,” so the matter of extracting that information will be very disruptive, Tom Sullivan notes.
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Nov. 19, 2012 | NOW | Alex Wagner (MSNBC)
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is shown during Alex Wagner’s interview of Ezra Klein.
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Nov. 19, 2012 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company’s email policies are featured in an article about companies that encourage (or mandate) employees to stop checking emails after hours, Mr. H reports.
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Nov. 18, 2012 | The Washington Post
"The big one that everyone’s watching is more definition around the exchanges," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau.
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Nov. 18, 2012 | Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
The Advisory Board Company projects inpatient cardiology services in South Dakota dropping 12% by 2016 and 19% by 2021, Jon Walker reports.
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Nov. 18, 2012 | Austin American Statesman
Crimson is a software development organization based in Austin, Texas, focused on helping health care professionals better serve patients through actionable insights that improve care delivery, The Austin American Statesman notes in its Top Workplaces awards coverage.
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Nov. 16, 2012 | Portland Press Herald
LePage isn't the only governor to pass on Medicaid expansion. Six other Republican governors have said definitively that they're taking a pass, while five others are leaning in that direction, according to an analysis by The Advisory Board Company, Steve Mistler writes.
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Nov. 15, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
"The big one that everyone’s watching is more definition around the exchanges," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jordan Rau. The story also appeared in The Washington Post.
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Nov. 15, 2012 | Portland Press Herald
The Advisory Board Company’s map on states’ Medicaid expansion decisions is embedded atop the article.
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Nov. 13, 2012 | Health Management Technology
With the election season behind us, we can now step back and ask, "What does the outcome of the election mean for our industry?" The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades writes.
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Nov. 13, 2012 | Healthcare Finance News
The commentariat, including the blogerati and twitterati wings, have focused on the budget battles of the future to come from Capitol Hill, the flurry of regulations to come from HHS, and the last stand of the boys in red in certain state capitals around the country against implementation of health insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion under the ACA, David Harlow writes.
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Nov. 13, 2012 | The Washington Post
The Advisory Board Company estimates that only nine states have fully committed to implementing the expansion, Sarah Kliff reports.
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Nov. 13, 2012 | ICD-10 Monitor
The Advisory Board Company’s Edward Hock is included among the commentators on this podcast.
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Nov. 12, 2012 | Healthcare Design
According to The Advisory Board Company, observation care typically costs the hospital less and may even increase revenue for the hospital—which is commonly misunderstood, as many people assume inpatient care generates more revenue, Ashley Dias writes.
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Nov. 12, 2012 | The Examiner
The Advisory Board Company website provides an exhaustive post-election account of where every state stands on Medicaid expansion, Gail Reilly notes.
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Nov. 12, 2012 | The Herald-News (Joliet, Ill.)
Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers has been notified that it is one of 20 organizations across the nation to receive The Advisory Board Company’s 2012 Excellence in Employee Engagement Award.
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Nov. 12, 2012 | Government in My Back Yard - GIMBY blog
The Advisory Board Company, a global research firm, predicts the government will extend the deadline for states that want to get on board, Books Hayes notes.
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Nov. 11, 2012 | Providence Business News
With the re-election of President Barack Obama to a second term, Mitt Romney’s promise to repeal health care reform on his first day in office has faded from political reality. Instead, health care reform will continue to move forward apace. Chas Roades, the chief research officer at The Advisory Board Company and a health policy expert, recently spoke at Brown University, detailing his view of future health trends, Richard Asinof reports.
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Nov. 9, 2012 | Huffington Post
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry—all Republicans—are on record so far as resistors to expanding Medicaid, according to an analysis updated by The Advisory Board Company.
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Nov. 8, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
An article by The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades examines the impact of the election on health systems and providers, Andrew Villegas reports.
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Nov. 8, 2012 | Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Hospital systems and doctors' groups are now less likely to delay efforts to find new ways of delivering better care more cheaply to patients, The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told The New York Times’ Reed Abelson.
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Nov. 8, 2012 | Nashville Post
Health care delivery is all about population management, The Advisory Board Company’s John Deane told Philip Nannie.
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Nov. 8, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford listened in on a committee meeting chaired by Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator of health IT, and the tenor of the discussion was that the committee would "move forward and finish the work that's been started," she told Ken Terry.
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Nov. 7, 2012 | ProPublica
One of the two maps cited is The Advisory Board Company's interactive infographic that charts states’ approaches toward potential Medicaid expansion. The article also appeared in the Orlando Weekly and the Boise Weekly.
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Nov. 7, 2012 | Bloomberg News
Hospitals would have continued to migrate toward more incentive-based pay that lowers costs even if the mandate for universal health care coverage was repealed under Romney, The Advisory Board Company’s Frederick Isasi told Stephanie Armour. The article also appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the San Francisco Gate/Chronicle.
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Nov. 7, 2012 | Health Affairs
With the election season now (blessedly) behind us, and the endless barrage of campaign ads now magically gone from our lives—for at least a couple of years—we can now step back and ask, “What does the outcome of the election mean for the nation’s health systems and provider community,” writes The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades.
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Nov. 7, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
“[The result] foreshadows that the health care IT agenda defined to support the Accountable Care Act and The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will regain momentum lost to the distraction of the campaign,” The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford told Gabriel Perna.
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Nov. 7, 2012 | WebMD
The Advisory Board Company's interactive infographic that charts states’ approaches toward potential Medicaid expansion is cited in the footnotes.
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Nov. 6, 2012 | Radiology Business Journal
In 2008, The Advisory Board Company’s Imaging Performance Partnership conducted an audit of 100 member websites and tabulated the percentage that offered a number of key services. Though most programs had sites, they were frequently missing key functions, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Brand writes.
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Nov. 2, 2012 | Government Technology
The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra told Justin Brown, “Once a doctor has all the data they need, they could begin to look at how to best engage the patient in newer ways to improve their overall health outcomes.”
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Nov. 1, 2012 | Health Affairs
“Unfortunately there’s a lot of pressure to get results quickly,” The Advisory Board Company’s Frederick Isasi told Harris Meyer.
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Nov. 1, 2012 | Health Data Management
Utilization metrics for radiology will only grow in importance in the accountable care era, The Advisory Board Company’s Zac Stillerman told Gary Baldwin. "As providers adopt risk-based contracts, they will look at utilization-and radiology can easily be over-utilized."
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Nov. 1, 2012 | The Health Care Blog
"I would characterize employers as increasingly impatient and sophisticated," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Dan Diamond.
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Oct. 26, 2012 | The Washington Post
Six states have so far said they will not participate, and five are leaning against it. A map from The Advisory Board Company shows where things stand right now.
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Oct. 26, 2012 | ICD-10 Watch
A video on ICD-10 services offers an illustration of how ICD-10 coding could reduce reimbursements, Carl Natale notes.
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Oct. 26, 2012 | iHealthBeat
The CMS Electronic Health Record Incentive Program and the ONC 2014 Edition final rules, published in the Federal Register on Sept. 4, reinforce the federal government's unwavering commitment to ensure widespread adoption of certified EHR technology, The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford writes.
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Oct. 23, 2012 | Executive Insight
The Advisory Board Company’s Christopher Kerns told Jill Hoffman that providers serving large uninsured populations are likely to feel the greatest impact if their state opts out of Medicaid expansion.
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Oct. 23, 2012 | Executive Insight
For providers considering becoming ACOs next year, application deadlines are looming, The Advisory Board Company’s Rob Lazerow told Jill Hoffman.
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Oct. 19, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Ken Kleinberg told Ken Terry that the operating systems of mobile devices have more robust security features than the legacy Windows systems found in many hospitals.
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Oct. 19, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Ken Kleinberg suggested another method to improve the accuracy of medication histories in hospitals, Ken Terry reports.
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Oct. 18, 2012 | The Associated Press
A glance at the current status for states cites The Advisory Board Company.
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Oct. 18, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The people at the Advisory Board Company are listening loud and clear to the message of Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the National Coordinator for Health IT, Gabriel Perna reports.
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Oct. 17, 2012 | Marketplace (American Public Media)
“Hospitals and doctors will have fewer customers that don’t have insurance, so they’ll have more paying customers. And so it will inject some more money into the system,” The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jeff Tyler.
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Oct. 17, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
Kinergy Health, creator of the MyKinergy app, recently won the Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge, sponsored by The Advisory Board Company. The challenge aimed to spur innovation by encouraging patients to broadly enroll in and use Blue Button–a Web-based feature that allows patients to securely access and download their health information from doctors, insurers, pharmacies, and other health-related entities, Michelle McNickle notes.
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Oct. 15, 2012 | American Medical News
“Payers can bring a lot of resources to the table, but the way that insurers and physicians want to operate, make decisions, measure success can be very different,” The Advisory Board Company’s Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, told Victoria Elliott.
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Oct. 15, 2012 | Providence Business News
A Brown University lecture series on health care leadership kicked off Oct. 10 with a talk by The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades.
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Oct. 12, 2012 | Washington Business Journal
When you weren’t looking, the Advisory Board evolved into one of the Washington area’s biggest and fastest-growing technology companies, not to mention a darling of small-scale Wall Street investors, Ben Fischer reports.
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Oct. 12, 2012 | Healthcare Matters blog
“Our mission is to surface and secure economies of intellect on behalf of member organizations—discerning 'True North,' communicating these insights and best practices with clarity…” I don’t know who wrote that, but if there were a ranked list of mission statements out there, The Advisory Board Company would be a winner, Tom Finn writes.
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Oct. 10, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
"In a broader economy that still is struggling to create jobs, and people are struggling to find them, the health care market is hot," The Advisory Board Company’s Mary Van Hoose told the magazine. The firm ranks No. 33 on this year's Best Places roster and placed No. 4 among large employers.
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Oct. 9, 2012 | Points of Light blog
A branding blitz for not-for-profit organizations was one example of the creative ways The Advisory Board Company has found to engage its employee base in skills-based volunteering during its Week of Service this October, Yvonne Slu writes. The article also appeared in the Billion + Change blog.
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Oct. 9, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
Kinergy Health of Vienna, Va., won the Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge sponsored by The Advisory Board Company, Joe Conn notes. The news also appeared in Government Health IT and Healthcare Informatics.
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Oct. 9, 2012 | WyoFile
States around the country are grappling with Medicaid expansion. An analysis by The Advisory Board Company finds that 11 states are committed to expanding Medicaid while six have indicated that they will not participate.
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Oct. 8, 2012 | Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s recent publication of a benchmarking tool helps its hospital members assess the performance of their radiology group on key areas such as call coverage, subspecialty expertise, and peer review.
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Oct. 8, 2012 | Nurse.com
The Emergency Nurses Association 2012 inductees to the Academy of Emergency Nursing, including Fred Neis, RN, MS, CEN, FACHE, FAEN, principal at The Advisory Board Company.
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Oct. 5, 2012 | HIStalk
Dale Sanders is SVP of Healthcare Quality Catalyst of Salt Lake City. He is also senior technology advisor for the national health system of the Cayman Islands and a senior research analyst for The Advisory Board Company.
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Oct. 4, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra brought his typical high-wattage, power-of-positive-thinking message to the closing keynote speech as the American Health Information Management Association's annual convention wound down Wednesday in Chicago on its three-day run, Joe Conn reports. The news was also covered by Healthcare IT News, Advance for Health Information Professionals, EMR Daily News, MobiHealth News, and Healthcare Technology Online.
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Oct. 3, 2012 | Government Health IT
At a Bipartisan Policy Committee event, Robert Musslewhite, CEO of The Advisory Board Company, said that the dialogue about accountable care organizations, EHRs, health information exchange is critical, Tom Sullivan notes.
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Oct. 3, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The chief integration officer, which is going by many titles—such as the VP of population health, VP of integration, chief accountable care officer, and VP of the continuum of care—is beginning to formulate the organizational design for population health management, The Advisory Board Company’s Amanda Berra told Jennifer Prestigiacomo reports.
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Oct. 3, 2012 | Becker’s Hospital Review
The Advisory Board Company Ed Hock recently told Bob Herman, "The reality is ICD-10 will require physicians to document things they've never had to document before.”
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Oct. 2, 2012 | Forbes.com
As a measure of its prioritization on corporate philanthropy, The Advisory Board Company is one of the driving forces behind A Billion + Change, a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars of pro bono and skills-based services from corporate America by 2013, Ryan Scott reports. This article also appeared on the Sustainable Business Forum blog.
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Oct. 2, 2012 | Rockefeller Foundation
"I left the White House in February of this year to continue the work I started a decade ago at The Advisory Board Company trying to find health care innovations to lower costs and improve quality," Aneesh Chopra says (video).
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Oct. 1, 2012 | Rockefeller Foundation
The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock tells Bob Herman that physicians are the foundational pieces of a successful ICD-10 implementation because ICD-10 is a documentation issue as much as it is a coding issue.
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Sept. 26, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
MidValley Family Practice, one of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative sites, will be implementing the Crimson from The Advisory Board Company to help enhance care coordination, Jennifer Prestigiacomo reports.
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Sept. 25, 2012 | InformationWeek Government
There are a growing number of Blue Button applications. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Blue Button Mash Up Challenge and The Advisory Board Company's Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge are underway, with winners to be announced in October, J. Nicholas Hoover notes.
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Sept. 24, 2012 | HIMSS New York State eNewsletter
Courtesy of Robin Raiford of the Advisory Board: Meaningful use—the whiteboard story, a poster breaking down objectives and measures.
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Sept. 23, 2012 | The New York Times
David G. Bradley, the owner of Atlantic Media, built and then sold the Advisory Board and the Corporate Executive Board, two research advisory firms, but he never trumpeted that or his fancy education—he was a Fulbright scholar with a law degree from Georgetown and an M.B.A. from Harvard—as a significant credential, David Carr reports.
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Sept. 22, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
“We have always tried to find the most innovative solutions to health care problems,” says Advisory Board CEO Robert Musslewhite. That striving for innovation led the company to develop a cloud computing system five years ago that today makes up more than 50% of the company's business.
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Sept. 21, 2012 | The Washington Post
The Advisory Board Company’s push for no after-hours e-mail is part of a growing effort by some employers to rebuild the boundaries between work and home that have crumbled amid the do-more-with-less ethos of the economic downturn. The story also appeared in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, and the Seattle Times.
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Sept. 21, 2012 | Clinical Documentation Improvement Week Q&A
"We have several other programs that are also being implemented during this time, as well (Dolby Computer Assisted Coding, Advisory Board ICD-10 Compass, etc.), so we know that we will need all the time we can get," said Katy Good, clinical documentation program coordinator for Flagstaff (Ariz.) Medical Center.
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Sept. 20, 2012 | Government Health IT
Texas, which has the largest number of uninsured, Florida, and Mississippi are among six states to date that have already rejected Medicaid expansion participation, according to The Advisory Board Company, which is tracking where states stand on Medicaid expansion.
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Sept. 20, 2012 | Becker’s Hospital Review
While putting fully operational electronic health records in place remains the top priority for hospital IT leaders, industry experts such as The Advisory Board Company, as part of its imaging performance partnership program, are telling all their hospital members to invest in PACS Enterprise Archives, and adopt a corresponding strategy for management of these systems.
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Sept. 18, 2012 | The Wall Street Journal
The Advisory Board Company’s interactive infographic on states’ approaches to Medicaid expansion appeared with a page A6 story by Louise Radnofsky.
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Sept. 15, 2012 | MedInnovations blog
According to The Advisory Board Company, the share of doctors practicing at hospitals who are also employees is growing rapidly.
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Sept. 13, 2012 | The Wall Street Journal
A story by Anna Mathews was accompanied by a table illustrating the rising share of doctors practicing at hospitals who are also employees from 2000 to 2012. (Subscription required)
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Sept. 10, 2012 | Executive Insight Advance
Hospitals have been attempting to address their ED capacity and flow issues for over a decade. In 2000, The Advisory Board Company published for its members the first "best practices" report on ED throughput, "The Clockwork ED."
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Sept. 4, 2012 | Executive Insight Advance
Honorees include Fred Neis, MS, RN, FACHE, FAEN, CEN, a Principal at The Advisory Board Company.
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Sept. 4, 2012 | Georgia Health Sciences University
Shawn Vincent was also selected as an Executive Fellow of The Advisory Board Company after a two-year development program for health care leaders.
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Sept. 1, 2012 | Health Data Management
The Advisory Board has developed a proprietary software tool, called the ICD-10 Compass, which was developed to assist in hospitals’ analysis, The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock told Gary Baldwin. "The program takes their current claims data and combines it with our own analysis breaking down every I-9 code and assigning risk score to it."
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August 30, 2012 | The Tennessean
According to an estimate by The Advisory Board Company, the number of U.S.-based specialty physicians who are employed by the hospitals where they treat patients increased nearly fivefold to 25% from 2000, while the amount of primary care physicians doubled during that same period.
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Aug. 29, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
In a conversation with Jennifer Prestigiacomo, The Advisory Board Company’s Matthew Cinque pointed out that much of the world of population health is not all that new, as payers and health plans have been doing these types of activities for years for their members.
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Aug. 28, 2012 | Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology
The Advisory Board Company’s Dana Pfenninger illustrates how cardiologists and administrators are strategically using business and IT tools to respond to a rapidly evolving health care landscape.
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Aug. 27, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford pointed out to Jennifer Prestigiacomo that the capability to share information outside of a particular organization’s EHR system is particularly necessary in the case of snowbirds, those who spend part of the year in a warmer part of the country.
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Aug. 27, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
Two executives of The Advisory Board Company said in an interview with Ken Terry that the finalization of the postponement should help spur new efforts among hospitals to meet the deadline.
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Aug. 27, 2012 | InformationWeek Healthcare
The Advisory Board Company’s Robin Raiford gave a big sigh of relief when reading in the final rule that hospitals have until July 1, 2014, to have the 2014 Edition of Stage 2 certified electronic health records software, rather than when the 2014 fiscal year starts on Oct. 1, 2013, Joe Goedert reports.
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Aug. 27, 2012 | FierceHealth IT
An estimated 20% of networks market an insurance product, while another 20% are exploring the option, according to research firm The Advisory Board Company, Karen M. Cheung reports.
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Aug. 27, 2012 | FierceHealth IT
This year, nearly one-quarter of all specialty physicians who see patients at hospitals are actually employed by the hospitals, according to an estimate from The Advisory Board Company, Anna Mathews reports.
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Aug. 26, 2012 | Washington Post
Twenty percent of hospitals and health systems are exploring strategies to market an insurance product, according to a survey last year of 100 hospital leaders by The Advisory Board Company.
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Aug. 17, 2012 | Marketplace Morning Report
"All of the insurers realize the traditional commercial risk business where they’re insuring individuals through employer contracts is a shrinking business. The population is aging," The Advisory Board Company's Chas Roades tells Scott Tong.
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Aug. 17, 2012 | Physicians Practice
The Advisory Board Company's Peter M. Kilbridge provides Aubrey Westgate with suggestions for how to get patients to try out the portal, how to ensure they continue using it, and how to get even the most reluctant patients to use the technology.
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Aug. 14, 2012 | FierceHealthIT
The Advisory Board Company’s Doug Thompson sums up the idea behind Stephen Covey's book in one thought: If all of us did the simple things we already know, it would change the world.
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Aug. 14, 2012 | WedMD
The Advisory Board Company offers a map of the U.S. with information about where each state stands with regard to adopting the Medicaid expansion.
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Aug. 13, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company’s Amanda Berra explains to Jennifer Prestigiacomo how many hospitals are designating a role to lead preparations for greater contractual risk for population management.
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Aug. 6, 2012 | American Medical News
“The larger goal of any insurance company or health system is to reduce the cost of care,” said Lisa Bielamowicz, MD, senior vice president of physician strategy at The Advisory Board Company, a research and consulting firm in Washington. “But how is a case manager going to improve the health of your patient?”
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Aug. 6, 2012 | Millican Solutions, Inc.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to add millions of U.S. residents to the insurance rolls, but many experts say those newly insured individuals will exacerbate nationwide physician shortages and further restrict health care access, according to a republished article from The Advisory Board Company’s Daily Briefing.
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July 28, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
The award honors The Advisory Board Company among workplaces in health care that enable employees to perform at their optimum level and provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products, and services.
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July 24, 2012 | EMR and HIPAA
The blog links to The Advisory Board Company’s infographic on the location of accountable care organizations.
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July 21, 2012 | Modern Healthcare
The magazine named The Advisory Board Company as one of ‘Healthcare’s Hottest’ and will announce the rankings in September.
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July 20, 2012 | The Wall Street Journal
Mike Davis, managing director at The Advisory Board Company, comments to Joel Schectman on the Xcelera Connect from Philips.
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July 20, 2012 | Washington Business Journal
Michael Kirshbaum, CFO at The Advisory Board Company, is included in the photo gallery of honorees.
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July 18, 2012 | Austin Tenant Advisors
The Advisory Board Company recently moved into their new office space in northwest Austin, Texas. A photo gallery is available.
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July 10, 2012 | Ignatius Bau blog
The Advisory Board Company has prepared a useful map of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-approved accountable care organizations (ACOs), including the Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs and the Pioneer ACOs, including the 89 Medicare Shared Savings Program, the blogger notes.
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July 10, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
Two hospitals in New Jersey and Nebraska share their stories on how The Advisory Board Company’s Crimson services helped them improve dialogue with physicians, reduce patient readmissions, and increase national rankings while eyeing the mounting savings.
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July 9, 2012 | The Washington Post
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his intention to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. That adds Texas to the five dark-red states, mapped out by The Advisory Board Company, that have already made simple promises: The map was also noted by NPR, The Incidental Economist blog, the Reform Medicaid blog, and Congressman Jim DeMint’s blog.
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July 2, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The passage of the ACA accelerates the need for care transformation given that most organizations are dealing with shifting reimbursement models and tightening budgets, The Advisory Board Company’s Christopher Kerns told Jennifer Prestigiacomo.
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July 2, 2012 | iHealthBeat
More than ever, cutbacks and cost savings are top-of-mind priorities for health care organizations, as hospital revenue and margins continue to decline, Medicare reductions loom, case mix worsens, and increased competition and consolidations become a daily reality. Yet the need for new and often costly IT initiatives such as electronic health record implementations has not abated, The Advisory Board Company’s Ernie Hood and Daphne Lawrence write.
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June 29, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
"As providers are more accountable for the costs of their care, they’re going to have a significant incentive to invest in new ways to monitor patients more effectively—to make sure they’re not trending to an unnecessary admission to the hospital," The Advisory Board Company’s Christopher Kerns told Jennifer Prestigiacomo.
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June 28, 2012 | Health Affairs
Overall, the ruling lifts the uncertainty surrounding the law for patients and providers: payment reform is here to stay, and the time to focus on transforming patient care across the continuum is now, The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades writes.
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June 28, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
Other hospitals have been waiting for greater certainty to follow the lead of large systems, The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Christopher Weaver, "Now, you'll see people invest more aggressively."
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June 27, 2012 | HIStalk
Ernst & Young names The Advisory Board Company CEO Robert Musslewhite a winner in of a 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Greater Washington Region.
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June 26, 2012 | Lexington Herald-Leader
"Health care is changing in pretty fundamental ways aside from the Supreme Court and what the Supreme Court does," The Advisory Board Company’s Gregg Nunziata said in a meeting of health care executives. KyForward also covered the event.
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June 26, 2012 | Core 77
The Advisory Board Company’s Scott Strzinek recently led the redesign of the company's Austin office space in collaboration with the architecture firm SmithGroupJJR. "We're innovative with products," Strzinek told Dave Seliger. "We just redid our logo and branding. But why not also be innovative with our space?"
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June 26, 2012 | The Doctor Weighs in blog
The Advisory Board Challenge—At the Health Datapalooza meeting in D.C., The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra announced a challenge with the launch of the Patient Engagement Blue Button® Challenge.
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June 26, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
“Health-care systems are putting in these systems with all due haste to try to get this money,” The Advisory Board Company’s Dave Garets told Joel Schectman. “But you’ve got to have the people in-house who really understand this process and these people don’t come cheap.”
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June 26, 2012 | Washington Post
On increasing integration between health care providers and payers: “It really picked up last year,” The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Sarah Kliff. “If you’re trying to do things like coordinate care more effectively and reduce unnecessary admissions, it’s helpful for you to have control over beneficiary dollars. Then you can change the incentives for beneficiaries, doctors and other facilities.”
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June 22, 2012 | Ernst & Young
The Advisory Board Company CEO Robert Musslewhite was named the 2012 Greater Washington winner for Business Services.
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June 20, 2012 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
In a 2012 Growth Survey, The Advisory Board Company found that members were shifting their strategy to accommodate new market incentives. In addition to the technology and programmatic investment trends, providers are also increasingly prioritizing investments in primary care capacity.
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June 20, 2012 | Nashville Post
The program included a panel discussion featuring The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra, Ascension Health CEO Bob Henkel, and Jonathan Perlin, who serves as the chief medical officer with HCA.
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June 19, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
"Whatever else the Supreme Court does, they can’t overturn the aging process, and they’re not going to strike down chronic disease," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Jay Hancock. "Those are factors that are at the root of our health care crisis, and we’re going to have to continue to figure out ways to address them." The story also ran on NPR and in McClatchy Washington Bureau, and the Macon Telegraph.
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June 19, 2012 | Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
A panel moderated by Janet Marchibroda, chair of BPC’s Health IT Initiative, also included The Advisory Board Company’s Aneesh Chopra.
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June 19, 2012 | Points of Light blog
PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, GlaxoSmithKline, and The Advisory Board Company discussed how their programs are addressing critical issues such as global health and education, water resource management, and improving STEM education through skills-based service.
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June 15, 2012 | HIStalk Mobile
The Advisory Board Company launches its 2012 Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge to encourage the creation of apps for improving care by sharing health data. The prize is $25,000 and submissions are due Aug. 6.
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June 13, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
CIOs must handle IT integration of the merged hospitals, just as they are leading a transition to electronic medical records. Around 30% of hospitals have already made the move to electronic medical records, up from just 11% in 2009, The Advisory Board Company’s Dave Garets noted to Joel Schectman.
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June 13, 2012 | HIStalk
The Advisory Board Company’s Daily Briefing newsletter highlights the story of newly discovered notes taken by the first doctor to attend to Abraham Lincoln after his shooting at Ford’s Theater.
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June 12, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
The Advisory Board Company’s Protima Advani told Bernie Monegain that she recognizes the prospect of launching portals and getting patients to use them can be daunting. “Hospitals have not been in the business of engaging their patients,” Advani said.
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June 12, 2012 | Health Data Management
The Advisory Board Company has launched a challenge to software developers to increase patient engagement by making it easier for them to share health data with providers. The top prize is $25,000, Joe Goedert notes.
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June 11, 2012 | Kaiser Health News
"They're trying to hedge against the possibility that some or all of the law will be overturned, and they want to be viewed as doing the right thing," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Julie Appleby. The story also appeared in the Miami Herald; Pioneer-Press of Saint Paul, Minn.; and Macon Telegraph.
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June 11, 2012 | Executive Insight-Advance
The Advisory Board Company has estimated that "approximately half of the participating hospitals are expected to receive a VBP incentive payment that will fall short of the withhold, with the other half receiving a bonus overall. However, almost 55% of hospitals will likely receive a payment within a range of 0.25% from the 1.0% breakeven," Darica Ward notes.
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June 7, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
The Advisory Board Company is sponsoring a challenge with its membership of health care providers to advance patient engagement using Blue Button, Mary Mosquera reports. The story also appeared in Healthcare Informatics, HIStalk, Government Health IT, DailyMe, and EHR Intelligence.
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June 7, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
"Less money in the system means a much greater need to focus on finding and capturing economies of scale," The Advisory Board Company’s Chas Roades told Anna Mathews. Also, he said, hospitals are "trying to figure out, how can we be an end-to-end solution for our patients." (Subscription required.)
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June 4, 2012 | Executive Insight Advance
As the volume of Medicare patients increases, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects $110 billion in funding cuts between 2011 and 2019, as noted by The Advisory Board Company, Zynx CMO David C. Rhew, MD, writes.
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June 2, 2012 | The Washington Post
Of the 665,000 jobs the economy added in 2012, 158,000 of them have been in health care. Even when the economy was shedding huge numbers of jobs in 2008 and 2009, the sector was still growing, Sarah Kliff relays from The Advisory Board Company’s Daily Briefing.
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May 31, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
A particular hospital might lose reimbursement in their neuro unit and gain in their cardiac unit, for example, and CFOs need to understand that now. The Advisory Board Company is literally helping people break out their data and run it through the ICD-10 grouper, Ed Hock told Mark Hagland.
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May 30, 2012 | Healthcare IT News
HIMSS hosted a live Twitter chat with former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and current Senior Advisor for The Advisory Board Company Aneesh Chopra on topics such as health IT policy and meaningful use. The conversation introduced themes that will be discussed at the Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition taking place June 11-12 in Washington, D.C. The Twitter session was also noted by Healthcare Informatics, GovWin, and GovHealthIT.com.
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May 30, 2012 | Ars Technica
"It's less about the technology holding the industry back, and more about the reimbursement model for health care," The Advisory Board Company told Sean Gallagher. The story was also noted by HealthLeaders Media.
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May 23, 2012 | Healthcare Informatics
The Advisory Board Company ranks No. 44 in this year’s list of the top health care technology firms. The ranking was noted by HIStalk.
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May 18, 2012 | Austin American Statesman
Central Texas long has thrived on the growth of local start-ups and the Austin-area expansions of Electronic Arts, The Advisory Board Company, and other out-of-state companies.
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May 17, 2012 | Highland Community News
A team from Loma Linda University Medical Center recently presented at the Crimson Performance Summit in Orlando on an initiative that reduced complications of care, lowered average length of stay for appendectomy 36% and for cholecystectomy by 37%, and generated a cost savings of more than $362,000. (See also Redlands-Loma Linda Patch: Loma Linda University Medical Center touts Orlando summit presentation)
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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.
