Time to Improve Awareness
By Matt Fisher – Doing the right thing or merely demonstrating compliance with requirements is hard to do when knowledge of expected or necessary requirements is missing or not sufficient.
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Transforming the Payer Space: CTO Talk with Lee Green at BCBS Massachusetts
New CTO Talk episode NOW on Demand with host Matt Ferrari. Matt talks to Lee Green, Chief Architect at BCBS Massachusetts. Lee joined me for a lively and informative conversation around cloud transformation in the payer space.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – August 2019
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of August that we think deserve sharing again.
Facilitating Transformational Change in Primary Care
By Bob McNellis, MPH, PA – I was recently recalling a trip to a national conference in Boston where I crossed paths with a fellow physician assistant who was working in a primary care practice. “Becoming a medical home was the hardest thing we ever did…
The 3rd Annual ONC Interoperability Forum
By Keith Boone – A dozen years ago, there were 200 people deeply involved in Interoperability programs in the US. I recently attended the third annual Interoperability Forum hosted by ONC, and I can safely say that there are at least 1000 people deeply involved in Interoperability programs.
Repeat Offender
By Art Gross – When you search for cyberattacks by vertical, always in the top categories is healthcare. It can be filtered from there by the size of the business, whether it is enterprise or small to medium-sized establishments, but the information targeted is patient data.
Myth vs Facts: Two Healthcare Payment Trends Debunked
By Noah Dermer – When new technologies and methodologies enter the healthcare payments industry, they can create quite the buzz. Two that I’ve been hearing a lot about recently are credit checks in healthcare and contactless payments.
Surviving the Squeeze: Emergency Medicine Billing Under Federal Scrutiny
By Tyler Williams – Did you know that nearly half of all emergency care is uncompensated? Are you aware that one in five patients treated in the emergency department has no insurance or clear method of reimbursement?
ClinicalBox Improves Surgery through Enhanced Prior Authorization and Clinical Coordination
By Chris Muir & Brett Coughlin – We recently checked in with ClinicalBox and Lowell General Hospital about their progress since being selected as one of six winners of ONC’s 2015 Market Research and Development (R&D) Pilot Challenge in 2015.