By Justin Barnes – With kickoff of the inaugural MACRA reporting period nearly upon us, many healthcare providers will greet 2017 with quality payment program objectives top-of-mind.
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By Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative explains everything you need to know on the recently announced interoperability agreement between CommonWell and The Sequoia Project (Carequality).
By Jared Smith – The government pays over a trillion dollars for health care through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This is more than on space exploration, education, international aid and all branches of the military combined.
By Abhinav Shashank – The story of Geraldine Alshamy explains how a minor complication in healthcare network can be catastrophic! The patient started experiencing severe headaches, and she was rushed to an emergency room.
By Sarianne Gruber at the NY eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference – The success of New York State’s healthcare rests on the best strategies and implementations for value-based care and value-based purchasing.
By Judah Thornewill, Bob Esterhay MD, Eric C. Schneider MD, Aneesh Chopra & William Yasnoff – While more and more doctors’ offices, hospitals, and other providers are using EHRs, patients rarely have access to their digital health data.
2017 is fast approaching, and so is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, the new Medicare payment system for physicians and other clinicians. CMS estimates that more than 90% of eligible clinicians will participate in MIPS,
The Sequoia Project is seeking healthcare stakeholders, as well as policy and technical experts, for a new cross-organizational patient identity management workgroup.
By Holly Taylor – As the market responds to continued pressure to reduce healthcare costs – and with costs expected to consume 20% of the US economy by 2020 – the march to value-based care will pick up speed in 2017.