Doctor! Doctor!
By Frank Fortner – Will we get incentives, or nothing at all?” are just a few lyrics from the HITECH Train (Crazy Train parody) song written back in early 2011. It’s been five years since the song was written.
Read MoreHealthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance
A Patient-Centric Pharma: Integrating Big Data and EHRs for a Real World Ecosystem
By Sarianne Gruber – Having been successful for decades maintaining a traditional a product-driven model, pharmaceutical companies are feeling their way toward a new business model: patient-centricity.
AMA and AHA Release Statements in Support of ONC Enhanced Oversight and Accountability Rule
The AMA and the AHA have both issued statements on the steps taken by the ONC to strengthen the monitoring and testing of certified EHRs and supports ONC’s general framework laid out in its recently released final rule.
HATA Continues Growth Trajectory by Doubling Membership
The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association, announced their newest members: Aprima Medical Software, Greenway Health, Healthcare EDI Partners, Inc, InstaMed, and Zelis™ Payments, a division of Zelis™ Healthcare.
Medicare’s Investment in Primary Care Shows Progress
By Patrick Conway MD – CMS announced the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative’s second round of shared savings results, with nearly all practices (95 percent) meeting quality of care requirements and four out of seven regions sharing in savings with CMS.
Welcome the Newest CommonWell General Members
The newest members represent the diverse spectrum of our health care industry. CommonWell truly is an organization well positioned to improve the exchange of health data across the broad continuum of care. Here are the new members.
Put Lost Revenue From Claim Denials in the Rearview Mirror
By Crystal Ewing – Historically, providers have often treated claim denials the way many of us treat a speeding ticket. We may not be quite sure how much we were actually speeding—we may even disagree that we were speeding at all.
Surescripts Accelerates Interoperability to Enable More Valuable Data Sharing
Nationwide Network to Provide All EHR Customers Free Access to National Record Locator Service; New Clinical Information Exchange Services Coming in 2017.
$13M Awarded to Test and Implement New Children’s Quality Measures
AHRQ and CMS announced awards totaling $13.4 million in funding over four years to six new Pediatric Quality Measures Program grantees focused on implementing new pediatric quality measures developed by the PQMP Centers of Excellence.