One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of August.
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By Sarianne Gruber – A conversation with CEO and founder Dr. Libbe Englander of Pharm3r. They cultivate very large datasets by accessing multiple sources of information on end-user experience of medical products.
By Sarianne Gruber – Hallmarked as a solution to improve healthcare quality, cost and safety, studies are showing health technology is up against a “digital divide” when it comes to patient engagement.
By Sarianne Gruber – “Where ever there are bundled payments today, physicians are typically required to report out on patient-reported outcomes,” says Dr. Todd Johnson, CEO of Noble.MD. Speaker at MedCity Converge in Philadelphia.
By Sarianne Gruber – At the Inforum 2016, I meet Joel Rydbeck and learn how their software and cloud services help their clients advance towards interoperability. A very timely conversation given ONC’s release of two measures addressing ‘widespread interoperability’, as required by MACRA.
By Sarianne Gruber – “There are a lot of tech savvy people making apps for tech-savvy people. It’s a wonderful world that we live in with the ability to do that but we are not going to bend the cost curve in the United States by providing an app for an otherwise healthy forty-year-old person with diabetes or for the sixty-year-old that has a heart condition who is out on the golf course.
By Sarianne Gruber – “Claims data is incredibly noisy and unless you really understand what the is question that you are trying to answer, there is a high likelihood that the data that you pull to answer the problem is going to be the wrong data,” Ariel Bayewitz, Vice President of Provider Analytics at Anthem, unequivocally told the audience.
By Sarianne Gruber – Despite the onerous task of working with claims data, the Health Datapalooza panelists presented their organization’s success turning this messy data into actionable and reliable information for the end user whether consumers, providers, payers and health systems.
By Sarianne Gruber – Christina Farr had a “Next Generation” house call for the first time. The on-demand doctor’s visit provided her care and resolved the possibility of a trip to the emergency room, and best of all she felt great. Ms.Farr, an award-winning health and technology journalist, happen to have had her encounter just days prior to the d.Health Summit.