By Christian Kratsas – Care coordination missteps are damaging to providers across the healthcare industry and one huge, overarching mistake is apparent: not enough information is being shared.
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By Neil Smiley – Bundled payments and predictive analytics dominated the health information technology landscape for much of 2016. 2017 is shaping up to become the year that providers and payers will effectively leverage these new capabilities.
By Justin Barnes – With kickoff of the inaugural MACRA reporting period nearly upon us, many healthcare providers will greet 2017 with quality payment program objectives top-of-mind.
By Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative explains everything you need to know on the recently announced interoperability agreement between CommonWell and The Sequoia Project (Carequality).
By Jared Smith – The government pays over a trillion dollars for health care through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This is more than on space exploration, education, international aid and all branches of the military combined.
By Abhinav Shashank – The story of Geraldine Alshamy explains how a minor complication in healthcare network can be catastrophic! The patient started experiencing severe headaches, and she was rushed to an emergency room.
2017 is fast approaching, and so is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, the new Medicare payment system for physicians and other clinicians. CMS estimates that more than 90% of eligible clinicians will participate in MIPS,
By John Halamka MD – Massachusetts Governor Baker led a trip of clinicians, industry leaders, government officials, academics, and entrepreneurs to visit Israel on a mission to establish MA as an incubator for the US growth of Israeli companies.
By Holly Taylor – As the market responds to continued pressure to reduce healthcare costs – and with costs expected to consume 20% of the US economy by 2020 – the march to value-based care will pick up speed in 2017.