By D’Arcy Gue – The focus of federal efforts to incentivize healthcare IT adoption has primarily been on electronic health records (EHRs), which are oriented around hospitals and physician offices.
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By John Halamka MD – Alexa and Google Home -BIDMC has a long tradition of testing speculative technologies with the notion that breakthroughs often require tolerance for failure. We’ve embraced blockchain because we believe public ledgers have promise to unify medical records across institutions.
By Marilyn Agbeko – Ah, the good old days; perform a procedure for a patient, submit claims and get paid. To get paid more, perform more procedures. Easy math. Success lay in managing the transactions between scheduling of services and receipts of payment so that you didn’t leave money on the table.
By Sean Cassidy – You’ve got to love CMS. They took a simple concept like “if you lower the cost of delivering care to a population of patients, we’ll share the savings with you” and exploded it into a Rube Goldberg machine of pieces, parts, rules, constraints and exceptions.
By John Halamka MD – I’ve written several posts over the past two years about the need for innovation in healthcare IT – deploying self-developed apps, leveraging third party cloud hosted functions, and embracing the internet of things.
Any successful company recognizes the importance of customer touchpoints—those critical moments when a customer engages with someone in the organization. With the rise of consumerism, healthcare organizations are no different.
By Arun Rangamani – Healthcare business intelligence and analytics today needs to be faster, more comprehensive and more insightful than ever before. It’s a tall order that is proving to be too much for current business intelligence models.
By Matt Fisher – Despite the fact that ransomware and hacking attacks draw the biggest headlines, it is actually improper insider access that causes the highest number of data breaches.
By Susan Jaffe – Under a new federal law, hospitals across the country must now alert Medicare patients when they are getting observation care and why they were not admitted — even if they stay in the hospital a few nights.