Jun 6, 2016
Noah Weiner is the
CEO/Cofounder of Avhana Health. Started because the lack of
clinical decision support (CDS) functionality that exist in modern
electronic health records. Avhana Health has developed a cloud
based CDS platform that helps care providers do the right thing to
improve quality and increase reimbursements.
Before founding Avhana Health, Noah researched patient safety at the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and was part of the innovation and the transformation team of the Epic Project, both at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Noah earned his undergraduate degree at Lafayette College
(Easton, Pennsylvania).
Noah can be reached via email at noah (at) avhana (dot) com. Visit
Avhana Health on the web at www.avhana.com or on
twitter
@AvhanaHealth.
00:00 What is Population Health?
01:00 EHRs and work flow.
01:45 Electronic Health Records as fee-for-service model tools and
the challenges of making EHRs work with population health analytics
after meaningful use.
02:45 Melding the puzzle pieces of health tech together for
population health.
06:30 Getting Clinical Pathways to operate smoothly within
EHRs.
11:00 Integrating Third Party Systems with EHRs through APIs.
12:00 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
14:30 The usefulness of feedback loops within EHRs.
16:30 Tailoring EHR messages according to providers and
patients.
17:20 Measuring population health and reimbursing providers through
quality measures.
18:00 The necessity of accuracy in EHRs for the sake of provider
quality reimbursement.
20:50 Avhana’s work with Athenahealth.
24:00 Tailoring quality guidelines according to individual
providers.
25:20 Providing identical services to both outpatient and inpatient
providers.
26:40 The time lag data warehouses can cause to backend
reports.
33:30 You can find out more information noah@avhana.com or
www.avhana.com.