Five Takeways from the HFMA 2018 Conference
By Kim Charland – Peter Drucker, world-renowned business management guru, reminds us to focus on both efficiency and effectiveness to improve long-standing processes, procedures or policies.
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FDA Budget Matters: A Cross-Cutting Data Enterprise for Real World Evidence
By Scott Gottlieb MD – Over time, as our experience with new medical products expands, our knowledge about how best to maximize their benefits and minimize any potential risks, sharpens with each data point we gather.
A New Use for Onerous Requirements
By William A. Hyman – It is well recognized by users of EHRs that CMS/ONC reporting and use requirements are burdensome and often not connected with desirable patient outcomes, and certainly not connected with efficient operations.
Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) Data Challenge
By Steven Posnack, MS MHS, Dustin Charles & Wes Barker – The ONC Certified Health IT Product List better known as CHPL is the authoritative, comprehensive listing of health IT products that have been tested and certified under the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – June 2018
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 June that we think deserve sharing again.
Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare
New Harlow on Healthcare episode NOW on Demand. Host David Harlow talks with Joe Kvedar VP of Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients.
Password Reuse: A Common Practice for 25% of Employees
By Art Gross – Risky cyber behavior among employees is nothing new, in fact, despite organizations becoming more aware of the state of cybersecurity, employees continue to cause data breaches in unacceptable numbers.
Flipping the Switch: How Life Sciences Companies Can Help Providers See Care in a New Light
By John Pagliuca – It takes seeing things in a different light to break out of a rut. So, oftentimes when a teacher, a friend, a business partner, a relative, or even a stranger provides that one piece of much needed insight, the proverbial light bulb goes off.
Healthcare Data Ownership: Turning Patients into Proactive Consumers
By Scott Corbitt – The healthcare data explosion has prompted thorny debates over data ownership and access. Obviously, patients have a vested interest in having access to their own personal health history, but the data holds value for other stakeholders as well.