By Terry Hayes – For years, there have been studies showing that clinicians are decreasing time spent with patients due to competing demands. Nurses say that out of a 12-hour shift, only two hours are spent on direct patient care, and doctors spend only 27.5 percent of their daily working time with their patients.
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CMS and ONC today released final rules that simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers. Also included in the regulations is a 60 day comment period on Merit Based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS).
HHS has announced the 39 networks participating in the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative which is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over the next four years.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights “Examining Consolidation in the Health Insurance Industry and its Impact on Consumers” on Tuesday September 22, 2015. Aetna and Anthem CEOs testify.
By Sarianne Gruber – VP of IBM Watson Health, Dr. Kathleen McGroddy Goetz is focused on technology and commercialization where “the pace has been very busy”. Kathy has been instrumental in many of new acquisitions and partnerships for IBM Watson Health including Phytel, a population health software, and Softlayer for Cloud Computing.
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.
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.”