By Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative explains everything you need to know on the recently announced interoperability agreement between CommonWell and The Sequoia Project (Carequality).
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By Jared Smith – The government pays over a trillion dollars for health care through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This is more than on space exploration, education, international aid and all branches of the military combined.
By Abhinav Shashank – The story of Geraldine Alshamy explains how a minor complication in healthcare network can be catastrophic! The patient started experiencing severe headaches, and she was rushed to an emergency room.
2017 is fast approaching, and so is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, the new Medicare payment system for physicians and other clinicians. CMS estimates that more than 90% of eligible clinicians will participate in MIPS,
By John Halamka MD – Massachusetts Governor Baker led a trip of clinicians, industry leaders, government officials, academics, and entrepreneurs to visit Israel on a mission to establish MA as an incubator for the US growth of Israeli companies.
By Holly Taylor – As the market responds to continued pressure to reduce healthcare costs – and with costs expected to consume 20% of the US economy by 2020 – the march to value-based care will pick up speed in 2017.
By Lucia Savage & Peyton Isaac – Data shows that individuals expect to be able to access their health information, making it readily accessible and securely shared among their health care providers to support effective clinical decision-making.
By William Hersh MD – The year 2016 has been a busy but fun year of personal achievements. Many of the notable accomplishments involved giving talks, both in person and online, and around the country and the world.
By Don Michaels PhD – When CMS released the Notice of Proposed Rule for the implementation of the MACRA – in April of this year, howls of protest could be heard throughout the healthcare landscape.