By Gopal Khanna MBA – Recently in his State of the Department speech, HHS Secretary Alex Azar talked about the importance of using markets to put patients at the center of healthcare to deliver more affordable care and better health for every American.
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By Jeffrey Brown – The evolution of electronic claim payments in healthcare continues, with nearly two-in-three providers embracing electronic funds transfer (EFT). In an increasingly competitive landscape, many health plans are finding they need to…
By Daniel Cidon – Discussion around unique patient identifiers took center stage during the 2020 ONC annual meeting in Washington D.C. recently. Consensus among panelists, which included a diverse range of industry stakeholders, was that…
By Doreen DeGroff – January 2021 is rapidly approaching for hospitals and providers to meet the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program deadline yet many organizations are reporting that the AUC implementation is proving to be more complex than…
By Michelle Carter – Somewhat subtly, additive manufacturing has become a significant topic of conversation in healthcare in recent years. It’s the sort of thing one might not notice without looking for it specifically, but the truth is that in many ways…
By Bennett Lauber – Many, many times in our usability evaluation and design career when a development team isn’t really interested in making enhancements to fix specific issues that we’ve identified, we’ve heard something like the phrase…
By John Halamka MD – Few organizations in healthcare have created a Platform which connects data producers and consumers, standardizing security, enhancing reliability and accelerating agility. What is the urgency to embrace a Platform approach to healthcare?
New CTO Talk episode NOW on Demand with host Matt Ferrari. Matt talks to David Houlding, CISSP CIPP. David is the Principal Healthcare Lead for Microsoft Azure.
By Gilbert Hoelscher – As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression. This applies to the go-live of an EHR system as well. The first two weeks post go-live will set the benchmark for provider satisfaction with the new EHR.