By Andy Slavitt – From at the J.P. Morgan Annual Health Care Conference, Jan. 11, 2016. Slavitt speaking about the major policy areas that will affect the health care sector in 2016. I am particularly glad to be here with Jim from AMA, because between us we are working on an incredible amount of change across the health care sector.
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HIMSS has announced the launch of the HIMSS Value Score, healthcare’s first international quality measurement for the value of health IT. The Value Score is the latest HIMSS-developed standards and resources that serve as health IT adoption models.
On the 6th Day of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts we look at geese a laying. On this day, we take a gander at some of the biggest healthcare mergers of the year 2015.
Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing, starting with The Joint Commission’s Annual Report and their thumbs up to 1,043 hospitals.
Centura Health has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology.
By Richard Kronick PhD – A few weeks ago, the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine or IOM) released a long-awaited report on a subject of great importance to the AHRQ—how all health care stakeholders can more quickly identify, resolve, and reduce the incidence of diagnostic errors and improve patient safety.
The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses what our industry may look like going forward post the HITECH era.
Health Catalyst and Partners HealthCare have established a $30 million initiative to enable the development of innovative population health management strategies and facilitate the transfer of the knowledge generated to other health care providers.
Modernizing Medicine announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire gMed. The acquisition is expected to increase Modernizing Medicine’s gastroenterology market share and anticipates closing the transaction in Q3.