Doubling Down on Primary Care’s Campaign Against Heart Disease
By Bob McNellis MPH, PA – If a fresh idea shows promise, it’s often worth repeating. When it comes to AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW, we’ve concluded the success is worth expanding.
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Colorado Forges Ahead On A New Model For Health Care While Nation Waits
By Markian Hawryluk – With the nation’s capital mired in gridlock and the Affordable Care Act facing a dire legal challenge, the prospects of lowering health care costs for Americans this year seem unlikely. Just don’t tell that to Coloradans.
COVID-19: Health IT’s Role in Controlling Its Spread
By Austin Dobson – With the scope and scale of the novel corona virus outbreak growing, many health IT leaders are doing their part to mitigate the disease’s impact. The virus will likely stress the physical healthcare delivery systems (diagnostic labs, inpatient beds, emergency departments,) as well as IT infrastructure.
Optimizing Patient Flow Requires Actionable, System-Wide Data
By Robert Kowalik – US hospitals are straining under the weight of an influenza season that hit hard and fast, with the CDC estimating at least 280,000 flu hospitalizations out of a minimum of 29 million flu illnesses between Oct. 11, 2019 and Feb. 15, 2020.
Too Much Data – Not Enough Information
New Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Dave Lareau, CEO of MediComp who has been solving the problem of too much data but not enough information.
Three Things Commonly Missing from VBC Solutions
By Dr. Mansoor Khan – The bumpy transition to value-based care has encompassed a growing array of different risk-based models – from episodic models like Bundled Payment for Care Initiative to population-based models like Medicare Advantage and ACOs.
Balancing the Data Equation
By Matt Fisher – Who owns healthcare data? Who can access healthcare data? Who can control how healthcare data are used? Those three questions can form the basis for going into any number of directions in the discussion around healthcare data.
7 Ways Telemedicine is Helping Critical Access Hospitals
By Shane Sullivan – If you’re a telemedicine advocate, you know it can transform rural healthcare. Virtual care is extending emergency services to South American villages unreachable by ambulance; it’s helping to stem the rising tide of communicable and chronic disease in Africa.
Three Steps to Better Cloud Migration Decisions
By Peyman Zand – Healthcare’s digital transformation and the need to meet patients’ consumer-driven expectations is forcing organizations to re-evaluate their core IT infrastructure, applications and data architectures.