Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry. Including news from Wellthie, Availity, and InstaMed. Reports and news about Cigna-Humana, GOP health bill, Harvard Business Journal, Mayo’s health plan, and medical groups responding to new MACRA proposed rule.
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From the VA’s VAntage Point Blog By Dr. Poonam Alaigh – The human mind is a place of ever growing discovery, and the world of electronics and information technology (IT) is unleashing technological advancements at lightning speed.
By Jeffrey Brady MD, MPH – It’s never easy hearing a story about unnecessary harm endured by a patient who received wrong or unnecessary treatment—or something worse—because of a misdiagnosis. But the stories told last September at AHRQ’s Research Summit on Diagnostic Safety were numerous, upsetting, and sometimes tragic.
Another successful HFMA ANI conference in Orlando this week. This year the theme was Collaborating for the Future. With four days of a full agenda and packed exhibit hall, here is what they were tweeting about.
By Anshu Jindal – The onset of MACRA in 2017 marks the big shift to value-based-care. It is a big and bold step towards providing best possible quality at the lowest possible cost. An initiative of such proportion inherently has a lot of moving parts.
Welcome to Talent Tuesday. Check back each week as we highlight job opportunities and tips from the healthcare IT recruitment specialists at Pivot Point Consulting. Today’s opportunity is an Epic HIM/ Cadence Analyst.
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments include Health Catalyst, EHNAC, Amendola Communications, and PointClear Solutions.
By David Harlow – In thinking about patient privacy, many folks assume that HIPAA is the first and last word on the subject. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Protected health information under HIPAA (PHI) is also protected by a variety of other federal and state regulatory schemes.
By Don Rucker MD – These are exciting times for the software industry, with extraordinary new products and services on devices from phones and tablets to their backend enterprise servers. We need this dynamism in software development to provide increased interoperability and usability to patients and clinicians.