by Brett Kinsler | Jan 24, 2018 | innovation
Digital Rochester is hosting a round table discussion on making Rochester, NY a national leader in the digital health market and Strategic Interests’ president Al Kinel is serving as a panelist. The event is to be held at Irondequoit Country Club on Friday, February 9, 2018 and is presented by DR’s Healthcare Technology Special Interest Group. “Transforming Rochester into a Powerful Digital Health Ecosystem” will cover how entities such as the local or state government, universities, investment community and private sector providers can collaborate to make Rochester an innovative healthcare ecosystem.
Panelists will discuss successes to date along with how the community can come together to create a thriving healthcare ecosystem in Rochester that will benefit the private and public sectors. A thriving healthcare ecosystem will ensure graduates stay in town and provide a digital health experience to the local community without investing a large amount of resources.
Panelists Include:
· Aaron Burton – VP of Innovation, Rochester Regional Health
· Ray Dorsey – David M. Levy Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for Health + Technology, University of Rochester
· Vincent Esposito – Regional Director, Empire State Development
· Rami Katz – COO, Excell Partners
· Al Kinel – CEO, Strategic Interests
· Sujatha Ramanujan – Managing Director, Luminate Accelerator
· Ken Rosenfeld – CEO, eHealth Technologies
Registration, refreshments and networking begin at 7:30. The presentation and panel discussion will go from 8:00 to 9:30, followed by networking until 10 am. This event is sponsored by DR’s Healthcare Technology SIG sponsors New York State HIMSS and iVEDix.
To register for the event, go to https://digitalrochester.com/event-calendar/#!event/register/2018/2/9/transforming-rochester-into-a-powerful-digital-health-ecosystem
by Brett Kinsler | Aug 13, 2017 | Conferences, DSRIP, HIT Strategy, innovation, Interoperability, Quality Care, Transitions of Care
Chicago, August 2017 — Al Kinel discussing care transition IT strategy at Allscripts Population Health University
As part of the Allscripts Population Health University held August 8 – 10, 2017 at Chicago’s McCormick Center, Strategic Interests president, Al Kinel, led a presentation explaining the improvement of care transitions using information technology. As seasoned implementation agents for Allscripts dbMotion product, SI understands first hand how the timely exchange of pertinent information positively impacts transitions of care from clinical, technical and strategic angles.
Kinel was joined by two SI clients who discussed their experience with interoperability and transitions of care: Erik Jacob, Manager of IT Interoperability at Rochester Regional Health, discussed the projects in Rochester from the Community Diabetes Collaborative through the merger of multiple hospitals and practices. Brian Henderson, Director of Physician IT Services at Sarasota Memorial Hospital presented the project connecting ambulatory community providers to the hospital’s health information exchange, SMHxchange. Finishing the talk, Strategic Interest’s Director of Clinical Services, Brett Kinsler, DC presented the methodology used to identify gaps and prioritize data elements to be exchanged to facilitate a Medicaid DSRIP program.
Chicago, August 2017 — Erik Jacob presented Rochester Regional Health’s interoperability process
Overall, the team defined the value of Health Information Exchange (HIE) with specific use case examples and described how innovative solutions can impact organizations and practices, increase care quality, decrease duplication of services, prevent unnecessary readmissions, and enable innovative payment models while attaining strategic objectives and enhancing partnerships among hospitals, LTPACs and community providers.
We appreciate being invited by Allscripts to present a topic we are so passionate about and are grateful to our client partners from RRH and SMH for bringing real life examples and experience to the discussion.
by Brett Kinsler | Aug 3, 2017 | Consulting, innovation, Practice Transformation
According to an AMA/KPMG survey in 2017, only 23% of physicians feel they are “well prepared” to meet MACRA/MIPS requirements. Strategic Interests is working with the New York eHealth Collaborative to assist practices in their adoption and development of quality improvement strategies. Many of these programs are fully funded by government grants. Programs include:
- BHIT: SI helps agencies providing home and community based services to Medicaid patients to select and implement EMRs as part of the NYS DOH Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Program.
- EP2: SI helps specialists service Medicaid populations with administrative processes to attain Meaningful Use.
- APC: Help for primary care providers in small practices to prepare for payment reform with transformation and ongoing education and support through the Advanced Primary Care Program.
- PTN: SI is assisting doctors and other providers to gain the strategic, business, operational and technical capabilities to prepare for the value based payment environment with the Practice Transformation Network program.
“Reimbursement changes are eminent, even if the specifics of the payment criteria have not been clearly defined and even if they will probably change. Proactive practices are utilizing this program (PTN) to determine their shortfalls and making operational changes to be prepared, regardless of how the specifics end up shaking out.” — Bill Lavoie, SI Project Manager
See the article in WNY Physician for more information: https://issuu.com/westernnyphysician.com/docs/buffalo_vol_3_-_7-13_final/22
Contact Strategic Interests to see if your practice is eligible: nysptn@strategicinterests.com
by Brett Kinsler | Jul 3, 2017 | Consulting, innovation
DayTwo, a leader in microbiome-health management, announced it has completed a $12.0 million Series A round of financing through Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), Seventure Partners’ Health for Life Capital fund, Mayo Clinic, co-founder Marius Nacht, and other private investors.
Strategic Interests has been integral in helping DayTwo create strategy and business plans, connect to their first US research partner, developed Segment-Specific Market Attack Plan (S2MAP), and we are helping to launch the business in the US. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with such a talented team, and thrilled to know we helped them reach this significant milestone.
Link: DayTwo Secures $12M Series A Financing Round
by Brett Kinsler | Jan 12, 2017 | Consulting, Electronic Health Records, innovation, Interoperability
When it comes to EHR (electronic health records) improvement projects cited among healthcare organiation executives, the plan to improve connectivity with other systems topped plans for 2017. According to Healthcare IT News’ recent survey of 96 respondents, sixty percent of those polled are planning or are already in the midst of an interoperability initiative. Most of these projects (65%) involve connecting to external databases or health information exchanges (HIE).
These executives recognize that there can be challenges to interoperability, listing the lack of industry standards, EHR vendors themselves, the “culture of hoarding,” and financial concerns.
“The Year Ahead in Health IT” survey also identified emerging technologies many organizations had plans to invest in this year. This included prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence, genomic tools and machine learning, cognitive computing, and blockchain.
Where is your organization on the path to interoperability and leveraging technology to improve quality of care, save costs and become more efficient? A seasoned healthcare technology consulting firm can be your guide to strategy, design and implementation while helping you navigate the tricky areas of vendor management and balancing internal change management.
Source: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/slideshow/survey-results-look-ahead-healthcare-it-2017?page=1
by Brett Kinsler | Dec 26, 2016 | innovation
Though we focus on helping Payers, Providers, RHIOs, and NGOs, Strategic Interests often finds we are in a position to provide strategic consulting to innovative healthcare technology companies. One of our favorites is DayTwo, a startup from Israel that is using microbiome technology to predict which foods will raise a person’s blood glucose and which will not. Did you know this differs for each person? Can you imaging having a list of the foods that are better for your personal nutrition based on your individual gut makeup? Many people think this is simple — eat an apple, not a doughnut. But it’s not as simple as that when you are comparing an apple to an orange. Or beer to wine. Or pretzels to chips. And these choices do make a difference in blood sugar response. DayTwo’s analytics are based on excellent research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and take the complicated test result data and yield an easy to use interface for patients and providers to apply the personalized nutrition information.
When DayTwo wanted to bring their technology to the United States, they asked Strategic Interests to help them set up a pilot program at a prestigious medical institution. We could think of no better choice than the Mayo Clinic. SI worked to make the introductions and facilitated a successful arrangement between these two innovative organizations.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/12/prweb13917085.htm
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