By Joel Cohen PhD – When the Nation’s top health services researchers want information about what patients are spending on healthcare, they turn to a reliable source: AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), an integral part of the Agency’s unique inventory of data tools and resources.
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New Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist Episode NOW on Demand with host Dr. Nick and guest Kulmeet Singh, the CEO of Twistle who is building a multi-functional platform for patient engagement.
By Matt Fisher – Since at least the beginning of the summer, it seems as though no day can go by without another phishing incident being reported by a healthcare entity. The reports are almost always the same too.
By Ed Simcox – As a parent, I know how important it is to have access to my daughters’ immunization records. Recently, I had the very common experience of needing immunization records for their schools.
By Art Gross – Avoiding the inevitable does not make it go away. Healthcare patients choose a provider based on the quality of care. In addition to that, the public will generally assume that their private information is safeguarded and not something that they need to…
By Noah Dermer – We’ve come a far way since the EMV fraud liability shift went into effect four years ago in October 2015. Since then, swiping cards has almost become a thing of the past. Consumers have come to expect chip-enabled payment cards for…
By Abhinav Shashank – What is that one factor that separates one patient from another? Can one identify why two patients with the same illness but from different regions respond differently to a particular treatment? Do we need to cater to the needs of patients even after they leave the clinic?
By Charlie Goldberg – Upon returning home from last month’s Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference in Chicago, I took the opportunity to reflect on how things have changed since attending the conference in 2002 and how CMS, states and vendors continue to face…
By Avinash Shanbhag & Sherilyn Pruitt – This past decade, we have witnessed steady improvements to healthcare interoperability. For those paying close attention, the CONNECT open source project has played a role in making those improvements possible.