Grow Your Own Organs
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Michael Hufford the CEO and Co-Founder of Lygenesis a company that is breaking the mold of organ replacement and enabling organ regeneration.
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Enhancing the Post-Pandemic Patient Experience
By Clay Anderson – Healthcare has shifted over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elective surgeries came to a halt, visitor restrictions were put in place, ‘telehealth’ became a familiar word in the patient’s lexicon, and the world’s view of healthcare and its workers changed.
Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth
By David Meyers MD – The COVID-19 pandemic revealed much about our Nation’s capacity—and shortcomings—when faced with an urgent health crisis. One positive aspect it exposed is our ability to adapt. A case in point is telehealth.
Standardizing Patient Addresses: Comment Period for Project US@ Initiative Now Open
By Andy Aroditis – Last month, the ONC released its first Project US@ Technical Specification draft for public comment. The initiative aims to improve patient matching, while supporting interoperability, privacy and safety, by issuing a unified address standard throughout healthcare.
Frictionless Access to Digital Health Information
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners and a Healthcare technology specialist and also the program manager of the Carin Alliance that is trying to get more data into the hands of patients and building on a multitude of interoperability programs.
Dave’s Dispatch: Do You Hear the People Now?
By David W. Johnson – This month’s song is a parody of the stirring “Do You Hear the People Sing” at the end of the first act of the Broadway musical “Les Misérables.” In the song, revolutionaries at the barricades call for the public to join their struggle against oppression.
It Isn’t Always Obvious
By Art Gross – Far too often, and in just about every industry, those of us who are “in it” assumes that certain aspects of what we know are obvious to the general public. For example, in healthcare, we know the basics of HIPAA and what information can and cannot be shared.
3 Paths Payers Can Take to Actualize Value From the CMS Interoperability Rules
By Austin Dobson – The CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule requires patients to access their data which caught many U.S. payer organizations on their heels. It includes steep technical compliance climbs for teams that have never had to work with these standards or meet these requirements.
The Healthcare Money Pit
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Marty Makary, MD, MPH, Professor Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health Editor of Medpage, and author of The Price We Pay – What Broke American Healthcare – and How to Fix It.