By Robert Freedman – The risks of non-compliance in the healthcare industry have never been greater. In 2016, the HHS Fraud and Abuse Control Program returned $3.3 billion to the Federal government and private parties. The DOJ opened 975 new criminal health care fraud investigations.
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By David Spellberg MD – During the recent Radiological Society of North America conference at McCormick Place in Chicago, a session titled, “Will MACRA and MIPS Kill Your Practice?” pretty much summed up the consensus feelings of most physicians.
By Steven Posnack – Health data often travels a long distance before it gets to its final destination. Additionally, data can be represented in a number of different ways.
By Linda Fischer – I spent 21 years as a hospital CIO and my job was more than just a job: it was part of my identity and a way of life. I love my new career – but yes, a part of me will always miss the hospital world.
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.
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.