Ralph P. Fargnoli, Jr. President and CEO Beacon Partners | Bio
Listen to healthcare expert Ralph Fargnoli, President and CEO of Beacon Partners, as he insightfully (and sometimes humorously) dissects the extremely complex issues facing healthcare facilities in North America.
While there is a level of enthusiasm surrounding the ARRA economic stimulus initiative, there is also much confusion and uncertainty. Join Ralph Fargnoli as he speaks with Healthcare Informatics editor-in-chief Anthony Guerra to discuss this very important topic during HIMSS09 in Chicago.
With so many disparate systems in healthcare organizations today, listen to Ralph Fargnoli and Mitch Paine, director of healthcare enterprise technologies at Beacon Partners, discuss the challenges and demands of data integration and interoperability.
Listen to Ralph and special guest Neil McLaughlin, managing editor for Modern Healthcare, discuss what the new Obama administration will mean to the future of healthcare and the healthcare industry.
Massachusetts recently implemented landmark healthcare reforms. What were the changes, what was the impetus, and what has been the impact on Massachusetts’ hospitals? Listen now to find out.
Listen to Ralph and guest Kevin Burchill as they discuss what’s on the minds of every healthcare provider’s C-suite: programs, people, productivity and the creation of new revenue streams.
Beacon Partners’ Director Kevin Burchill, Esq., Vice President Russ Branzell and Vice President of Professional Services Kathy LePar post their thoughts on the upcoming incentives. Contact Beacon Partners today to see how we can help you get ARRA-Ready!
The June 22, 2009 cover of Modern Healthcare is entitled “On the Clock” and is sub-captioned “The longer providers wait to adopt IT, the harder it will become to pass the ‘meaningful use’ test to qualify for economic stimulus cash.”
Waiting for the interpretation and all the final rules to put your plan together? Well, that is one strategy (not one I would recommend), but you still have the new and significantly more stringent HITECH privacy and security requirements that apply whether or not you accept the stimulus funds.
The economic stimulus package has stirred more questions than provided answers for healthcare organizations seeking to capture the touted $2M per hospital and/or $44k per physician of incentive payments.
