By LuAnn Kimker, RN, MSN – November is Diabetes Awareness Month and a good time to reflect on the importance of data-driven insights in addressing diabetes care gaps. Here are five to check out.
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By Misty Graham – If you’re participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System or MIPS Value Pathways, you’ve likely encountered a familiar scenario: you review your estimated MIPS score in your dashboard, only to find that months later, when CMS releases the final score, the numbers don’t quite add up.
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – Earlier this year we celebrated the 20th birthday of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (hereafter ASTP) and reflected on the transformative impact of health IT on patient care delivery in the US.
By Matt Bridge – Efficient patient access operations are paramount for healthcare provider organizations to thrive in today’s tumultuous financial landscape. Inefficiencies created by outdated, time-consuming, and cost-intensive patient access and financial clearance operations create delays in the patient’s journey from…
By Allison Morin MSN RN NI-BC – Shared governance is a leadership model in which clinical staff, administrative teams, and healthcare executives all work together to shape internal policies, operations, and technology adoption.
By Beth Friedman – AHIMA was founded in 1928 to improve the collection and organization of health information for medical professionals to improve public health. Fast forward nearly 100 years and the association’s new president, Dr. Kevin Klauer, modernized this vision to reiterate health information professionals’ essential roles: collect, analyze, share, and protect patient information.
By William Hersh MD – A new generative artificial intelligence study presents some interesting findings. Physicians randomized to conventional information resources plus or minus ChatGPT-4 showed no significant difference in their ability to solve diagnostic vignettes.
By Matt Fisher – The Office for Civil Rights announced the latest in its ongoing series of settlements or penalties stemming from individual right of access issues under HIPAA on October 17, 2024, which also happens to be the fiftieth such settlement.
We rounded up some industry experts to comment on The 2025 Employer Health Care Strategy Survey that explored ways employers address health care costs and key benefit strategy considerations in the near future and long-term.