By Sarianne Gruber – Dr. Kathleen McGroddy Goetz, though she prefers to be called Kathy, describes her career as a journey. A trained academic in healthcare and life sciences with a research perspective, her first aspiration was to do drug discovery.
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The Institute of Medicine has released a new report: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. In the report, IOM found that diagnostic errors have been largely unappreciated, concluding that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime.
By Steve Spearman – HHS has released a guide to writing a contractual agreement with business associates. In it, they include ten requirements for your contract to meet, and even provide an example contract to give an impression of how these requirements can fit together.
By Sarianne Gruber – What does it take to scale innovation across a very large enterprise and maximize impact? You might want to ask Marti Nyman. He is the Vice President of Business Development and Commercialization for UnitedHealthcare (UHC). And if you ask Marti what it takes, his answer is the “human touch.”
By Angela Hunsberger – Ten years of implementing and training practice management systems along with clinical optimization projects have taught me just how crucial the front desk staff are to an organization’s success. From a financial perspective, four areas play a vital role as the patient’s visit completes the revenue lifecycle.
By Alex Tate – How old is your practice management system (PMS)? If you had to sit there and do some significant thinking, and math, chances are your system is quite old and doesn’t offer any of the robust features newer systems now have that support modern workflows and mandates.
By Sarianne Gruber – Before we had patient panels and electronic health records, there were patient study logs and regulatory binders. Yet, the same questions are asked today when analyzing study outcomes as yesteryear. How do you assess a treatment, procedure or process for a specific disease in your population sample with the presence of confounding diseases? The answer is a Comorbidity Index.
In comments filed on September 8th with CMS, the National Partnership for Women & Families commends proposed updates to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Part B, and particularly applauds CMS’ proposal to reimburse providers for high-quality, effective advance care planning.
By Richard Kronick PhD – In our quest to improve health care, a consensus is emerging about the need to measure quality and to pay more for value and less for volume. Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced HHS intent to link 85% of Medicare payments to quality or value by 2016 and 90% by 2018.