Anthelio in the News

01/23/ 2012 10 health IT wishes for 2012: Healthcare IT News

Wendy Whittington, MD, chief medical officer of Anthelio, lists her top 10 IT wishes for 2012. From interoperability to telehealth, Whittington outlined what she, and most of her peers, would hope to see come true during the upcoming year.

01/09/ 2012 Vish’s comments on IT – In the Pink of Indian Healthcare: PCQuest

Healthcare is one of India's critical sectors - in terms of providing care to patients and also providing employment to the community. It's not surprising that the Indian Healthcare sector currently represents a USD 40 billion industry.

11/24/ 2011 Two Sides of the Coin: The Good and the Bad of Community Hospital Finances

Anthelio Healthcare Solutions and Community Hospital 100 released a survey in October that broke down the financial health of community hospitals. Sixty community hospital that have less than 300 beds responded, and the survey found several different results on their operating margins, days cash on hand and ICD-10 implementation.

11/17/ 2011 Anthelio Launches Public Healthcare Wiki to Innovation around Industry Challenges

Anthelio today announced the launch of healthcare innovations Hub, www.healthinnovatehub.com, a collaborative public healthcare wiki aimed at generating public dialogue and identifying new innovative ideas to improve healthcare quality, patient safety and costs.

11/16/ 2011 Wendy Whittington comments on IOM Report on HIT and Patient Safety: Forbes

Last week the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report on Health Information Technology and Patient Safety, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. The report raised good questions, but not enough and not too difficult. The IOM should have been asking even harder questions. Now there is something to think about!

11/08/ 2011 Anthelio and Community Hospital 100 announces financial health survey results

Anthelio today announced results of an original survey completed with Community Hospital 100 to measure the financial health of community hospitals and how this impacts their ability to implement new quality and performance enhancement initiatives. The survey finds 49% of Community Hospitals struggle with low operating margins amid rising costs, lower reimbursement.

11/03/ 2011 Anthelio Appoints Former Wipro VP to Head Quality Initiatives

 Anthelio today announced the appointment of Bharadwaj Heragu, former Vice President – Quality,  International  Operations for Wipro, as Chief Quality Officer of Anthelio to drive quality process improvements and compliance initiatives. The appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Heragu will be based at Anthelio’s headquarters in Dallas.

10/21/ 2011 The Top 10 Reasons to Take ICD-10 Seriously – BNA Health IT Law and Industry

The Wall Street Journal published an article about ICD-10 [International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision] that poked fun of the federally mandated coding system that will be used to describe medical services and facilitate billing to insurance companies.