Healthcare IT News - December 2008 - (Page 13)

www.HealthcareITNews.com HoSpItalS & IdNs December 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 13 Leapfrog to launch new hospital rewards program By Molly MeRRIll, Associate Editor WASHINGTON – The Leapfrog Group is set to launch its new hospital incentives and reward program, which it touts as more comprehensive and easier to use for both hospitals and payers. The Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program, or LHRP, will be based on data collected through its updated Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which evaluates hospital patient safety. In 2005, The Leapfrog Group offer a new program that challenges launched the first version of a hospitals to become top performers rewards program for hospitals in and rewards them for achieving progress toward this goal.” two pilot markets. The new LHRP includes a stan“We re-designed the program so that it uses measures from the dardized measure set and scoring Leapfrog Hospital Survey as its methodology, in addition to cusinfrastructure and also incorporates tomizable program features, that best practices and lessons learned purchasers can license and impleEmdeon Healthcare IT News_HFN Ad_Nov08:Layout 1 10/1/08 from our earlier pilot programs,” ment in local markets. “Value-based purchasing initiasaid Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “We are excited to tives are spreading throughout the in the hospital quality and country, so it’s important for safety movement,” said Leapfrog to offer a nationally William Finck, director standardized and evidenceof network initiatives for based approach so mulHorizon Blue Cross Blue tiple payers can use LHRP Shield of New Jersey. “Their simultaneously to accelerate program has helped our the drive toward improving Leah Binder hospitals identify opportuquality,” said Binder. The LHRP is available for pay- nities for improvement and focus 11:08 AM Page 1 ers to license and implement in resources on those opportunities. ■ any market across the country. More at HealthcareITNews.com “The Leapfrog Group is a leader lConnect: LeaPFroG 1208 e sso Continued from page 12 signal from the RFID-based card hanging next to his ID badge. “Plus, automatically logging off when you walk away certainly facilitates patient privacy and record protection.” Yet the active-proximity technology, called XyLoc MD by Ensure Technologies, isn’t the heart of the system. In fact, the pilot was an unexpected by-product of a larger SSO effort that began in 2006, as network lockouts were resulting in escalated organizational risk. “As complex password aggravation grew, it became increasingly common for everyone to use one person’s access throughout a day,” Bonner said. “So, we evaluated four SSO solutions and Imprivata’s “as complex password aggravation grew, it became increasingly common for everyone to use one person’s access throughout a day.” – Darryl Bonner OneSign appliance offered the most sophisticated capabilities without adding development, administrative or network complexity overhead for our 20-person IT staff.” Imprivata’s native XyLoc support can make an attractive pairing for strong authentication. “Although XyLoc is a decade old and stable, it’s much easier to deploy when the underlying SSO supports it natively,” said Mark Diodati, senior analyst with the Burton Group. “Otherwise, XyLoc requires custom integration with the incumbent development, administration and support costs.” After a year of SSO deployment Bonner estimates basic features alone have trimmed help desk calls by an estimated $700,000 annually. “Ironically, strong authentication wasn’t originally a purchasing factor,” he said. “But, selecting Imprivata is permitting us to plan a department-wide expansion of active-proximity technology during the second half of 2009.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: SSo 1208 Taking care of the little things makes all the difference. We connect more providers to more payers than anyone else. But what really sets us apart is all the little things we do for both that make the business of claims and payments so much more efficient. Discover how Emdeon is changing the business of healthcare. Visit www.emdeon.com today. Simplifying the Business of Healthcare Patient Access Management • Claim Management • Remittance & Payment Distribution • Patient Billing & Payment e l Connect: eMDeoN 1208 l http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10528 http://www.emdeon.com http://www.emdeon.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10524 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=10553

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