Jeff Lagasse

Jeff Lagasse is Associate Editor at Healthcare Finance.

By Jeff Lagasse 04:42 pm March 31, 2016
The organization’s 2015 Index found that the U.S. is still spending unnecessary but significant sums of money on manual transactions when the technology is available to handle those electronically. 
Peter Constantino, MD, created the Patient Identification Shield as an alternative to traditional writsbands.
By Jeff Lagasse 04:27 pm March 22, 2016
Hospital is looking to the public to nominate one of three initiatives: a patient identification shield, a surgery blood loss manager, or a bioprinter to produce living tissue replacement.
By Jeff Lagasse 11:50 am March 04, 2016
We need a different system where we engaged clinicians as partners and ask the right questions, a HIMSS16 speaker said.
Larry Seltzer, general manager and senior director of Netsmart, speaks about the importance of data aggregation in treating children Wednesday at the HIMSS16 conference in Las Vegas.
By Jeff Lagasse 11:34 am March 04, 2016
LAS VEGAS — Technological innovation is used often in healthcare to improve patient outcomes, but when it comes to children, aggregating data at the individual and population level is critical, said Stephen Quirk, CEO of Youth Emergency Services and Shelter in Des Moines, Iowa, and
Raymond Magner of Grove Medical Associates in Massachusetts speaks about improving patient engagement through patient portals and new technologies Wednesday at the HIMSS 16 conference in Las Vegas.
By Jeff Lagasse 03:13 pm March 02, 2016
David Weinstock, MD, and Raymond Magner of Grove Medical Associates say EHR implementation is just the first step.
By Jeff Lagasse 08:35 pm March 01, 2016
LAS VEGAS – Rueben Devlin, CEO of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, sees full digitization as the future of physician efficiency and patient experience. 
By Jeff Lagasse 04:43 pm March 01, 2016
Thomas Carton, director of health services research at REACHnet, also says tablets are changing the way data is managed.
By Jeff Lagasse 08:29 pm February 29, 2016
Steve Steffensen tells Innovation Symposium crowd at HIMSS16 that data can improve results and create better relationships with the community.
By Jeff Lagasse 08:24 pm February 29, 2016
The former national coordinator said at HIMSS16 that simple alerts can work. And an accountable care organization example proves that.
Aledade CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, said that providing actionable implements in existing technologies is the best way to increase physician engagement and innovation.
By Jeff Lagasse 07:01 pm February 29, 2016
The former national coordinator said at HIMSS16 that simple alerts can work. And an accountable care organization example proves that.

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