Pagers: Only in Healthcare
By Matt Fisher – Healthcare is often subject to many jokes about the utilization of outdated technology. The old-fashioned pager, or a beeper, is the hallmark example that is most often cited.
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Shifting from Volume to Value with Technology
By Abhinav Shashank – Since 1966, Americans have received more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than rest of the world combined with astonishing advancement in medical treatments, but how much of it reflected on ground level is still a troublesome figure.
On the Road
By John Halamka MD – Over the past few months, I’ve been in England, China, Denmark, New Zealand, and Canada. Each of them is rethinking their healthcare IT strategy and is not entirely satisfied with past progress.
5 Benefits of Increased Patient Engagement You May Not Know
By Susan Cruz – In today’s disruptive healthcare environment, we’re hearing of all sorts of new initiatives that aim to provide the best and most affordable healthcare to patients. Everything from MACRA, to Meaningful Use, to interoperability.
Getting a Head Start: Now is the Ideal Time to Jump on MACRA Quality Reporting
By Holly Taylor – With the recent release of the MACRA final rule, CMS confirmed that they remain committed to implementing the legislative requirements in less than 3 months, but did make some provisions to satisfy provider concerns.
What Should Be The Spectrum of Career Opportunities for Clinical Informatics Subspecialists?
By William Hersh MD – A common reason given for the establishment of clinical informatics as a physician subspecialty is the recognition of the growing role of physicians who work in informatics professionally, particularly in operational clinical settings.
CMS Finalizes Site-Neutral Payment Rule
In a final rule that changes the way off-campus facilities are reimbursed, the CMS was flexible in grandfathering some hospitals that had to relocate their buildings because of natural disasters.
For HIT Exchange, Should Your Head be in the Clouds?
By Kevin Puscas – With the incentives in recent years for creating digital healthcare data there are more opportunities than ever to share, exchange and use that data in innovative solutions. These solutions have a lot of promise.
Healthcare CIOs: Your Health Exchange Problems Solved with a Universal Bus for Healthcare
By Buff Colchagoff – Many of us remember a time when we shared digital information through good old-fashioned floppy disks, which started us on a path for ubiquitous data transfer.