By David Burda – One of my favorite scenes in The Princess Bride is when Miracle Max tells Inigo and Fezzik that Westley is “mostly dead,” which means he’s “slightly alive.” There’s hope for a full recovery. We can say the same thing about value-based reimbursement, if we have as much faith in a few recent VBR status reports as Inigo and Fezzik have in Miracle Max.
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By Micky Tripathi & Mariann Yeager – The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now available. Within the health information technology world, few things have been as elusive as a governance framework for nationwide health information exchange.
By Steven Posnack & Carmen Smiley – We recently announced the release of the Project US@ Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 and thereby completed our one year goal to coordinate the creation of a health care specification that could be used across the industry for representing patient addresses (mailing, physical, billing, etc.).
By Matt Fisher – The turn of the calendar to a new year frequently brings renewed energy and excitement to various activities. While the new energy may feel like it is in short supply given the repetitive feeling for the beginning of 2022 as a result of yet another COVID19 surge.
By Chiquita Brooks-LaSure – The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why CMS remains committed to making health care data flow more freely…
By William Hersh MD – As is the tradition with this blog, I end each year with a reflective look at the year past and what the future may hold. The year 2021 is not ending quite like I anticipated. At the beginning of the year, there were stirrings of optimism.
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 December that we think deserve sharing again.
By Art Gross – Recently the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with the Office for Civil Rights issued an announcement regarding extreme risk protection order laws and the disclosure of protected health information.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Kristin Begley, chief commercial officer at Wildflower Health. She joins Dr. Nick to discuss the role of the family chief health officer and how to make their job easier.