How To Efficiently Maintain Healthcare Relationship Management
Using a Transformative Digital Landscape to Accelerate ROI The digital landscape went from separate spreadsheets and documents to taking all those items necessary to communicate in a cohesive way with patients and health plan members in a cloud system like Salesforce. Also, knowing medical conditions and preferences about patients and members is critical for organizations […]
Why Salesforce is Right for Healthcare Database Management
Salesforce Database Data isn’t just at the center of your business, it’s at the heart of everything you do, and that’s never been truer than in today’s environment. As data has gotten bigger, the challenge of managing it has grown along with it. That’s why Salesforce is right for healthcare database management. In the healthcare […]
Kroger Health’s Approach to Helping Us Lead Healthy Lives
Last week, Virsys12 had the privilege of sponsoring the Nashville Healthcare Council’s February Leadership Healthcare Lunch & Learn event featuring Kroger’s Chief Medical Officer, Marc Watkins, M.D. Dr. Watkins joined Kroger Health in 2015 as Vice President and Medical Director of The Little Clinic. Prior to joining Kroger Health, Dr. Watkins spent six years with […]
How Technology Can Keep You On Track in 2020
How are your New Year’s resolutions panning out? If you’re struggling to stick with them, well, at least you can take some comfort in knowing you’re not alone. In fact, you have lots of company. One survey found that just 4% of people who made a New Year’s resolution in 2018 said they kept them. […]
So, You Want to Be a Consultant?
The lucrative world of consulting can be highly alluring for some personality types. The promises of work from home (in your pj’s), flexible scheduling, company travel, exposure to a variety of business models and concepts, and the ability to work with people all over the world are all some of the reasons people get into […]
Solving the Healthcare Provider Directory Challenge
$2.76 billion annually. Nearly a thousand dollars a month (per provider). That’s how much provider directory maintenance is now costing physician practices nationwide, according to a new survey by the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH). As practices work with more providers and contracts, that tab only gets higher. On the other side of the […]
Healthcare Technology Tackles the Patient Billing Challenge
In the clinical environment, the mantra is clear: we have to put patients at the center of care. But when it comes to billing and reimbursements, the reality is, the patient has always come last. Anyone who’s been a patient recently knows this all too well. You receive the bill and have no idea what […]
How Technology is Transforming Healthcare Relationship Management
This week is U.S. National Health IT Week, a nationwide action week focused on catalyzing change within the U.S. health system through the application of information and technology. As part of the initiative this year, organizers HIMSS and the Institute for e-Policy have highlighted five points of engagement that demonstrate how information and technology can […]
Making Progress Toward Healthcare Interoperability
When healthcare leaders talk about things like improving efficiencies, lowering costs and using data more effectively to improve individual and population health, the discussion invariably turns to interoperability. But just what is interoperability? HIMSS defines it as “the ability of different information systems, devices or applications to connect, in a coordinated manner, within and across […]
5 Change Management Practices for Healthcare Transformation Success
The move to value-based care means healthcare leaders today are being tasked with guiding their organizations through massive strategic transformations to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness. These initiatives involve implementing new systems and processes that affect everything from financing to service delivery to the need for increased connections and collaboration with other entities and providers. […]
Virsys12 Launches a New Podcast to Highlight Healthcare Transformation
How I Transformed This spotlights successful industry leaders. Long before cloud solutions were widely adopted in the healthcare industry, Virsys12 was transforming the business of value-based care with Salesforce. With the increasing speed of change and the complexities in new reimbursement and business models, our innovative team is focused on transforming how healthcare is consumed […]
How Salesforce Einstein Analytics and Health Cloud Could Change Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are looking for ways to be impactful in their markets and better serve their patient population and the old ways and use of EMR systems as the only technology to manage patient care is no longer a viable solution. Health systems need to collaborative, technology-driven patient engagement and outreaach. Salesforces already helps healthcare […]
How Innovation Has Transformed Healthcare
From Spreadsheets to Smartphones: How Innovation Has Transformed Healthcare was a key topic of Tammy Hawes’ podcast episode at HIMSS19. It’s been two months since Virsys12 attended and presented at HIMSS19 and while the excitement from the event has faded, the ideas, discussions, partnerships and collaborations that stem from the event are just taking root. […]
Swimming in data
Image, courtesy Nashville Healthcare Council “Swimming in data” is a phrase just about everyone working in healthcare today can relate to. At a Nashville Health Care Council (NHC) luncheon last week, Dr. Toby Cosgrove pointed out that, not only are healthcare organizations overloaded with data, they’re struggling to make meaningful use of it. And that’s […]
Virsys12 Earns Salesforce Gold Again!
By Joe Davila | Earlier this month Virsys12 was awarded Gold Salesforce Certified Consulting Partner status for our efforts in FY19. What an incredible honor that we worked so hard to receive! When I joined Virsys12 in September of last year, I knew I was joining a powerhouse team. Between the drive and intellect of […]
Transformation in Healthcare Takes Vision, Leadership and Technology
This is an expanded version of an article that originally appeared as part of a sponsored profile in the Nashville Post. Every day, we hear about another remarkable advance in healthcare technology. As more of these new technologies are launched, healthcare organizations are investing tremendous amounts of money into them, expecting these solutions to help […]
Salesforce Winter ’19 Release – Virsys12 Favorites
The Salesforce Winter ’19 release dates are upon us (main dates: September 8th, October 6th & 13th depending on your Salesforce instance) and Visys12 could not be more excited! The Winter release is packed full of awesome content, and we put together highlights we are particularly excited about. Here are our top five picks including mass record owner […]
The Future of IoT in Healthcare
Last month, Virsys12 was honored to host a fireside chat as one of the kickoff sessions for the Health:Further conference here in Nashville. The session was sponsored by our friends at TN HIMSS and our topic was the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare. I was joined by Mary Alice Heston, VP […]
Better, Faster, Stronger – Referral Management
If someone told you a process you’re currently using is creating poor patient satisfaction, costing you money, and ultimately damaging your reputation…what would you do? Referring patients to physicians is one of the most fundamental and frequently performed tasks in clinical practice, according to JAMA. It remains one of the most overlooked areas in healthcare […]
Payers + Providers: What I Didn’t Know Then
I remember the first time I had to make my own decision about selecting a healthcare plan. It was overwhelming for a young woman just out of college. Happily, the benefits person at my office was very helpful and most of my following experiences with what the healthcare ecosystem calls “payers” has been positive however, […]
The Game Changer Award Goes to… Customer Service
When you think about health tech (and the B2B space more broadly), the first thing you think of is likely not customer service. Nonetheless, the buzzwords of health tech—interoperability, blockchain, AI, and the like—only find their meaning when combined with great implementations grounded in excellent customer service. When Virsys12 was asked to be a part […]
Time for Innovation? Insights from HIMSS ’18
Another HIMSS in the books (thank you Las Vegas) and many will return to work as usual. Some will remember great moments and integrate new thinking in their work. A few, maybe you, will change the world with innovation. A quick recap of insights and actionable news: 1. “Healthcare is ripe for innovation and must […]
Healthcare Moves Ahead in 2018 After Uncertainty
Healthcare lessons learned from 2017 We offer these three reliable media sources (not Fake News) with summaries from 2017: FierceHealthcare – Top Headlines Becker’s Hospital Review – Top Ten Trends Healthcare IT News – Top Collections of Predictions, Events, Cybersecurity, VA news, Interviews, Big Changes, Emerging Trends and Popular Stories Don’t have time to read these yourselves? […]
The Salesforce Economy benefits Virsys12 Clients – Dreams Come True!
Salesforce and its ecosystem of partners and customers will create 3.3 million jobs and $859 billion in new business revenues worldwide by 2022, and for every dollar earned by Salesforce, the ecosystem will gain $5.20. If you are even tangentially connected to the world of Salesforce aka the Salesforce Economy, this is not a dream, it […]
3 Roadblocks: Operational Technology and Tomorrow’s Healthcare
While there are plenty unknowns about what lies ahead for healthcare, one thing is certain: The move to value-based care is here to stay, even if the process will be more gradual than originally projected. For any healthcare organization, transitioning to new payment models represents a significant cultural change, and technology will be integral to […]
Webinar: Meeting the ACO Challenge with a Winning Technology Strategy
Growing and managing a provider network can be challenging. Add in the extra complexity of value-based payments, and you have an organization with many operational complexities to address. We think a combination of the right technology with the right team is the answer to this challenge. However, many organizations often find that the technologies they […]
4 Risk Management Questions for a Changing Healthcare Economy
By its very nature, risk means exposure. It opens you up to potential dangers and pitfalls. So it’s not surprising that most healthcare executives have a pretty low tolerance for risk. After all, you’re working in a profession where human lives are on the line. A mistake can literally spell the difference between life and […]
Trends in Value-Based Care: Insights from Spring 2017 ACO Events
Two big events last month gave us the chance to catch up with leaders of some of the largest and most successful ACOs in the country, here are our 4 big insights.
Cloudy with a Chance of Success: HHS Moves Ahead
We live in the cloud. My alarm clock is my cell phone app, which knows that it is a weekday and what time I get up. I’m sure in a few nanoseconds there will be an app pulling my morning meeting data from my calendar and adjusting my morning wake-up buzz so I’ll make the meeting […]
What a Ride! 5 Lessons from a Wildly Unpredictable Year
This year should have come with a warning: Hang on with both hands! Even though rapid change has pretty much become the norm in today’s world, these past 12 months have been exceptional by any standard. There’s been no shortage of surprises, twists, turns, and ups and downs along the way. (BTW, stay with me, […]
