Our 2018 Health IT Wish List
By Mobile Health Matters – The healthcare IT industry enters 2018 with a lot of potential, along with the need to overcome structures that have historically stunted progress. What is on our health IT wish list?
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CHIP Renewed For Six Years As Congress Votes To Reopen Federal Government
By Julie Rovner – A brief, partial shutdown of the federal government ended Monday, as the Senate and House approved legislation that would keep federal dollars flowing until Feb. 8, as well as fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next six years.
2017 ONC Annual Meeting Highlights: Why Burden Reduction and Interoperability Matter
By Don Rucker MD – The focus of my remarks is primarily on ONC’s mission to achieve nationwide interoperability and reduce clinician burden relative to health IT. I emphasize these areas because they are absolutely critical to the health of Americans using our healthcare system.
Allscripts Suffers Ransomware Attack: Recovery Underway
By Art Gross – Billion-dollar EHR company Allscripts has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, which began on Thursday, January 18 around 2:00 am EST. By 6:00 am EST, the ransomware attack was full-blown requiring Microsoft and Cisco’s incident response teams to be called upon for assistance.
4 Ways to Make the Best of Healthcare IT Work in 2018
By Rose Higgins – Healthcare’s mantra for 2018: Make the most of what you’ve got. The mission for healthcare organizations will be to realize a strong return on investment on technologies that are already in place.
The Risk Adjustment All-Stars: Five Key Players
By Tom Peterson – Risk adjustment enables CMS to pay health plans based on the anticipated cost of covering care for the beneficiaries they enroll. Therefore, it’s important for health plans (and provider groups with percent of premium contracts) to get risk adjustment right.
The Benefits of Non-Traditional Data to Healthcare: Behavioral Data
By Jeff Turpin – New sources of data, such as internet browsing information, have a significant impact on everything from politics to fashion trends but can this new data help healthcare? And, if so, how?
A Look Back on Health IT in 2017
By Mobile Health Matters – 2017 was a roller-coaster ride for healthcare, marked by exciting innovation, damaging cyberattacks, periods of lulls and disruptive change.
Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health
By David Harlow – I spoke recently with Cindy Friend, who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company.