My Advice to the Trump Administration
By John Halamka MD – As I’ve listened to the confirmation hearings for cabinet nominees, I’ve realized that no one with healthcare IT expertise has yet been identified by the transition team.
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Can Automated Workflows Increase Patient Satisfaction?
By Christian Kratsas – Today’s healthcare model requires that services be patient-centered. Additional challenges arise, though, when care needs to be coordinated among multiple providers. From 1999-2009, the number of primary care visits resulting in a referral increased by 159%.
Physician Needs And How Should Health IT Help?
By Abhinav Shashank – Physicians have been instrumental to the healthcare industry; and from their perspective, healthcare is changing rapidly. With several new legislations and continued technological developments might have confused providers.
4 Ways Small Practices Can Best Prepare for Value-Based Care
By Jeff Jones – In contrast to the current fee-for-service care, the value-based care model aims to compensate physicians for high-quality service, clinical performance, and patient satisfaction.
Slavitt Farewell: Meeting the Moral Test of Government by Building on Progress Made
By Andy Slavitt – It’s been an honor to be a small part of making record progress in the last eight years—progress long overdue for so many. Let’s remember what things were like just a short time ago before the ACA.
Physician Experience 101: Making Lives Easier and Healthier
By Abhinav Shashank – Physicians are the ones anchoring the ship of healthcare in a sea of variables. Technological advancements are as they may, one cannot elude the touch and presence of a physician in healthcare.
Managing Medical Device Cybersecurity in the Postmarket
By Suzanne B. Schwartz MD, MBA – Protecting medical devices from ever-shifting cybersecurity threats requires an all-out, lifecycle approach that begins with early product development and extends throughout the product’s lifespan.
How to Pick Your Pace for the Quality Payment Program
By Jeff Jones – With 2017 upon us, many practices are scrambling to understand the Quality Payment Program final rule. The final rule was published last October with CMS making significant revisions to the proposed rule.
Of Borges and Big Data, Or: Is Big Data Too Big?
By David Harlow – Big data is useless only if we cannot understand it, if we cannot extract knowledge, and even wisdom, from the data. Big data is not useless to us if we can analyze it as it is generated, if not faster.