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Another HIMSS has come and gone and while the industry decompresses in its wake, it’s important to reflect on the themes and takeaways for the conference.

For one, the theme of the conference has changed over the years. “I think four or five years ago, you’d walk around HIMSS and everything would be about population health and population health became the label for how organizations should be thinking about the industry. I think there’s been a subtle or not-so-subtle change…to value-based care,” Mike Boswood, President and CEO, Truven Health Analytics, IBM Watson, told Healthcare Dive during the conference.

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Hospitals and health systems increasingly recognize the importance of antimicrobial stewardship. Concerns over the growth of antibiotic-resistant organisms are prompting unprecedented action on the national and international stage.

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Just Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health information data integrity and management, announced today the promotion of Julie A. Dooling to Vice President, National Sales. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA, will support and oversee business development for the firm.

OncoTAb, Inc., a University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) spin-out company, will present the results of a recent blinded study of its blood test for breast cancer at the 9^th Annual Biotech Showcase Conference. The results indicate that its test, the Agkura™ Personal Score, prompts physicians to order ultrasounds up to two years before diagnosis by mammography. The presentation will take place Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in Room 1.

Interoperability with other HIS is one of the key features of STANLEY Healthcare’s RTLS solutions that customers leverage to extract more value from location data. In fact, we support a wide range of integrations: EMR, ADT systems, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), nurse call systems, and more. In all these cases, customers want to add location data to the information handled by these systems to streamline workflows and patient flows. For example, EMR integration allows for the bidirectional flow of data, with patient location information appearing in the EMR—which many hospitals now use as their central information clearinghouse—and information flowing to STANLEY Healthcare’s patient flow solution to automatically populate patient data fields. Similarly, location data on assets like IV pumps can be displayed in CMMS systems, and such information as firmware version and maintenance information can be displayed in our solution.

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Throughout the healthcare system, payers are shifting away from payment models that incentivize volume of services to models that incentivize quality, outcomes, and savings. Efforts to transform healthcare through value-based payment reform can be seen in state Medicaid managed care contracts that incentivize outcomes, delivery system reform efforts under Medicaid demonstration projects, State Innovation Model (SIM) efforts that seek to implement reforms across public and commercial markets, and Medicare’s new quality payment program established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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