Top 5 Ways to Maximize Your MIPS Investment
By Beth Houck – Every health system and medical practice with MIPS eligible clinicians is well-aware of the time and cost associated with program compliance.
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Population Health Management Requires a Holistic View of Patient Data
By Jerry Shultz – To succeed under value-based reimbursement, ACOs and clinically integrated networks must be able to manage population health. One key to effective population health management is a holistic view of patient data.
Creating Communities of Health
New CTO Talk episode NOW on demand with host Matt Ferrari. Community Care of North Carolina System & VirtualHealth discuss how CCNC is advancing care coordination through forward thinking partnerships in a case management model for it’s 1.7 million medicaid members.
CMS’s Proposed Interoperability PI Rule Changes Is A Good Start, But Does It Address Enough?
By Thanh Tran & Donald Voltz MD – Federal healthcare organizations such as CMS have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap.
Why Patient Experience Matters With Overall Quality Scores
By April Wilson – The CMS announced in November 2017 a new approach to quality measurement in response to continued provider concerns about delivering quality care under the Affordable Care Act’s value-based public approach to patients as consumers of healthcare.
An Unnecessary Privacy Risk?: Online Nursery Photos
By Matt Fisher – Privacy and security of personal information are topics of constant discussion inside and outside of healthcare. Current events keep the heat on as one or the other never strays very far from headlines.
Can You Create An Invincible Medical Coding Program?
By Betty Schulte – The importance of accuracy and compliance in today’s coding environment cannot be overstated. High-quality coding is always a priority – but is there a way to make coding impervious to challenges? Unfortunately, the answer is “NO.”
How Improving Patient Matching Can Improve Patient Satisfaction
By Stephanie St. Thomas – One of the biggest new product announcements splashes of this year so far was Apple’s announcement of a new Personal Health Record (PHR) — called Apple Health Records — which would allow users to aggregate their existing patient-generated data…
Why SMEs and SMBs Fail After A Cyberattack
By Art Gross – Malicious cyberattacks are increasing every day around the globe. In fact, cyber-incidents nearly doubled from 82,000 incidents in 2016, to 159,700 in 2017.