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KLAS Articles - 2013

How EDIS Solutions Affect Physician Care in the Emergency Department

How EDIS Solutions Affect Physician Care in the Emergency Department

9 Apr 13 by Erik Bermudez
It is 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night, and your ten-month-old baby suddenly spikes a fever of 104 degrees Fahrenheit and becomes unresponsive. What’s the first thing that pops into your mind? The nearby urgent care closed their doors an hour ago, and there’s no time to call the local pediatrician’s emergency line. Whether you dial 911 or drive yourself, the destination will be the same place . . . the nearest hospital’s emergency department (ED). This is not a rare scenario in today’s healthcare. In fact, according to a recent CDC study, ED visits in the US are only on the rise. With increasing patient volumes, increasing demand on clinicians, and increasing patient wait times, where are EDs turning to make sure patients continue getting the prompt care they need and deserve? The answer? Technology.
ICD-10, Eagle Scouts, and Panic

ICD-10, Eagle Scouts, and Panic

13 Mar 13 by Mike Smith
Panic. It’s what I felt when it suddenly dawned on me that it was two weeks before my son’s 18th birthday and he had yet to achieve his Eagle Scout. He’d completed almost all the merit badges and other requirements over the past six years, but it seems the pursuit slowly fell further off of his (and my) priority list over time. Now all that was left was a final Eagle Scout Project and he was done! But it was literally 14 days until his birthday, and he hadn’t submitted a proposal or planned anything. And so . . . panic.
ACOs and the Super Bowl

ACOs and the Super Bowl

6 Feb 13 by Colin Buckley
Sunday night 108.4 million people tuned in to watch 22 men enter the field of battle in a contest with an 11-inch leather ball. According to the NFL, the difference between the winners and the losers was only $44,000. The winners of the Super Bowl walked away with $88,000 per person and the losers a scant $44,000. However, we all know that there was much more at stake for these players. These men had faith that if they followed the plays they had practiced so many times before, then the victory they had dreamed of for so long would be theirs. There is another battle on a very different battleground happening all over the U.S. It is over something much more crucial, but far fewer television cameras are involved. That battle is over healthcare. In many ways, we are losing the battle. Healthcare costs are on the rise. It is harder for providers to make do with smaller and smaller margins. Children and adults are finding it harder to access affordable medical care. The play that many are
Big Change Means Big Opportunity for Allscripts

Big Change Means Big Opportunity for Allscripts

9 Jan 13 by Adam Gale
With Paul Black, Will Allscripts Right the Ship? Optimism --> The best word to describe the Allscripts merger with Eclipsys in 2010. I wrote a blog back then and said, “So can this work? It’s all about execution. . . . You can be sure there will be the normal time adjusting to each other and taking a few steps back before going forward, but at least the two love birds seem to be a fit.” Allscripts’ promised an integrated system to compete with Epic. It was just what their client base wanted to hear. Alas, it never came to fruition.
 
 

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