Dan Kinsey

In an age where technology underpins every facet of business, the transition from IT Manager to Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) presented unique leadership challenges. Our latest article showcases how Fortium Partners was instrumental in navigating these obstacles, aligning technology strategy with OMRF's business goals, and driving growth. If you're in the healthcare industry, this is a compelling read that highlights the importance of strategic technology leadership in achieving organizational success. Discover how tailored technology leadership solutions can transform challenges into opportunities for growth. Read more: https://gag.gl/ZD6xgX #CIO #Leadership #Technology #Healthcare #Innovation #CEO

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Discover how Fortium Partners elevated OMRF's IT strategy, seamlessly translating technology into impactful business outcomes, transforming operations into proactive solutions, and elevating executive collaboration. #Innovation #Technology #Leadership Read one of our success stories with Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation to learn more. 🔗https://gag.gl/TJIS84

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As challenges in Texas’ healthcare system continue to grow, data-driven care coordination will become increasingly important to closing care gaps. Data sharing, strong collaboration networks, and a focus on addressing #SDOH will help providers improve patient outcomes and support the financial and operational capabilities of hospitals. Read more in my piece for Texas Hospital Association: https://bit.ly/3YmRLCx

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These new rules are undeniably patient- and healthcare worker-friendly. For the first time, Medicaid participants will enjoy predictability around costs in terms of time and money. https://bit.ly/44jM1ei  Healthcare Finance News #healthcare #Medicaid

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Note the recent Digital Transformation article from my fellow McKinsey healthcare leaders, to which I had the opportunity to contribute. A few takeaways: - Digital healthcare leaders must embrace agile technology prioritization to keep pace with the accelerating changes in business and technology. - It's crucial to recognize that it's not just financial constraints and legacy technology that can hold us back. Key leadership skills such as data governance, talent development, entrepreneurship, adaptability, resilience, collaboration, reimagining care delivery, and scaling early experiments play significant roles in the success of digital transformation. - Exciting times are ahead, and it's imperative to bring your A-game by preparing yourself as a next-generation digital leader: embrace a new set of skills while deepening the core competencies that have brought you this far, learn from industries that are ahead of healthcare in digital adoption, and lean into the change. This approach will enable you to navigate the complexities of digital transformation and drive impactful change in your organization.

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What are the most significant obstacles to using electronic health records (EHRs)? Klas Research asked 33,000 clinicians across over 300 healthcare organizations this question and compiled their answers in the 'EHR Interoperability 2024' report. When asked specifically about their experiences with patient data from external organizations, 47% mentioned the lack of proper integrations to access EHRs. At Tiga Healthcare Technologies, we utilize our expertise to develop healthcare IT products that enhance efficiency and lead to better treatment outcomes. Our Healthcare Interoperability product family, which includes Health Information Exchange (HIE) Viewer, Terminology Server, FHIR Stack and Enterprise Master Patient Data Index (EMPI), is designed to meet clinicians' most urgent needs around integration and data accessibility. This way, we offer successful solutions against health data inefficiencies affecting nearly half of the physicians and clinicians surveyed in the Klas report. Let's shape the future together with the power of interoperability, as always! Further insights from the ‘EHR Interoperability 2024’ report: https://lnkd.in/dvxJSJHN  #Tiga #HealthcareIT #PharmaIT #EHR #Interoperability 

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Discover the challenges CIOs face in balancing cost reduction with digital innovation when evaluating IT workforce models. Read the white paper here: https://optum.co/8a5ind #Optum #Healthplan #EHR #IT #Providers

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Discover how Fortium Partners elevated OMRF's IT strategy, seamlessly translating technology into impactful business outcomes, transforming operations into proactive solutions, and elevating executive collaboration. #Innovation #Technology #Leadership Read one of our success stories with Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation to learn more. 🔗https://gag.gl/TJIS84

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Excellent summary of how data enables the next level of Innovation. It’s just not just payor/provider - the ecosystem across med device, suppliers etc will amplify the patient outcomes.

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Read the latest from Oracle Health and Oracle Life Sciences EVP & GM Seema Verma to learn how we're bridging the gap between clinical research and clinical care. https://lnkd.in/gipJPuDb

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Excited to share the latest whitepaper published in #Healthcare space. The paper demystifies the Transparancy Regulations in Healthcare. A small tribute to #HealthcareProfessionals - #HappyThanksGiving #PriceTransparancy #NoSurpriseAct #TiC Please review and share your thoughts. Virtusa #lifeatvirtusa

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Generative AI can reduce patient frustration from long wait times. Leading healthcare providers are scaling applications in predictive triage and resource management, including patient flow, equipment usage, and appointment scheduling. These AI enhancements shorten wait times and optimize resources. #AI #GenAI https://bit.ly/4ducIA7

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Today's healthcare CIOs are more than tech tacticians - they're enterprise strategists driving digital transformation. Read more to see how they balance innovation with strategic vision to revolutionize patient care - https://buff.ly/48naoK8 #Healthcare #Digital Transformation

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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 On Sept 19, 2024, EY will host "Digital Health on the Hill" in Washington, DC to explore the landscape of digital health. I firmly believe that EHR data is key in advancing this field and enhancing patient care through digital innovation. Let's stay tuned on the insights that emerge from this event! #DigitalHealthontheHill #EY #DigitalHealth #EHRData

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10Pearls Health partnered with a leading healthcare organization to deliver a "business configurable" decision support system, enabling clinicians and business users to configure new prior authorization decisioning criteria as new treatments, policies, and clinical guidelines become available. The results: ■ Reduced legacy platform total cost of ownership by 5x  ■ Decreased turnaround times for config changes from months to weeks  ■ Improved speed and accuracy for prior auth determinations  ■ Reduced time-to-market for new medications and treatments  ■ Reduced the burden on IT for config changes    https://lnkd.in/grTnAeVy #10Pearls #10PearlsHealth #intelligentautomation #healthcareinnovation

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What are the 8 elements of a successful EHR upgrade? Find out in this fascinating (and very relatable) piece penned by Divurgent Principal Pete Wiley: https://gag.gl/yeyDwz Pete discusses the strategies that the most successful organizations have developed to drive upgrade success. Ready to maximize your EHR's value? Discover Divurgent’s full range of EHR services – from go live to upgrade and beyond - at https://gag.gl/kE3U1j #EHR #GoLive #Implementation

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Are We Listening to the Right Things? For over two decades, US healthcare has grappled with a quality chasm. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were introduced to address quality by improving data availability, record sharing, and legibility. However, EHRs led to burnout and impacted patient-provider relationships, as the patient's history, needs, and care plan were lost in bloated notes with copy-paste errors. The purpose and value of notes has been lost. The importance for useful and concise notes paired with effective communication and collaboration increases as care moves more virtual and asynchronous. Clinical notes were not intended as transcripts of patient-provider interactions or for billing support. Rather, clinical notes were meant to provide a readable summary of the patient's status, concerns, and care plan while capturing diagnoses, clinical reasoning, and follow-up instructions. As the medical legal record, notes serve as a reference to improve ongoing care's efficiency and effectiveness. To reduce provider’s documentation burden, ambient listening is a current focus. However, data on its ability to do so is limited, nor does its use alone improve access or productivity without process and scheduling changes.  Unfortunately, EHRs digitized paper-based processes and added burdens. Subsequent efforts tried to “optimize” these processes and data collection instead of creating new processes enabled by technology. We should improve clinical notes in the context of creating a better process for the entire healthcare engagement and ongoing patient health journey, not just the time spent by providers creating notes. A healthcare engagement begins when a patient seeks assistance, shares information, and interacts with any staff.  Aggregating and summarizing patient information at the beginning of an engagement can alleviate time spent reviewing data in tabs (~1/3 of provider EHR time). The new process will engage patients, and support team documentation while creating notes that provide a quick reference for ongoing care through concise, legible, easily consumable elements and information. That includes capture of structured data with minimal clicks and NLP use. Using systems thinking design and leveraging AI and ML, the care engagement process can be reimagined and redesigned to deliver better outcomes with greater efficiency for all (instead of trying to repair broken EHR and billing processes that templates, copy-paste, and scribes did not fix). Value can be added throughout the care engagement process, missed care opportunities and medical errors (a key goal of EHR implementation) can be reduced. The goal is transformation not optimization. With a Virtual First mindset you can solve the right problems while achieving measurable efficiency with greater ROI. Let's not live with past digitized errors. It's time to take advantage of data and automation for all especially the patient.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #VirtualFIrst#CrosstheChasm

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