Modernizing our Public Health Surveillance Systems
By Paula Yoon – Disease surveillance is the foundation of public health practice providing essential data to inform decision making and respond to health threats.
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Five Ways Healthcare Data Analytics Can Help You
By Abhinav Shashank – A few days ago, the HHS Office of Inspector General released a report highlighting the 10 biggest management and performance challenges the healthcare industry is facing, and again, EHRs and health IT have made it to the list.
Interoperability: A Necessity of Modern Healthcare
By Abhinav Shashank – Healthcare industry is lagging the most when it comes to advancements. There have been innovations, but equal implementation has been lacking. The cost of care has risen to over $10,000 per person,
End-to-End or Means to an End: Choosing the Right Clearinghouse
By Crystal Ewing – As the rules and requirements around health insurance continue to increase in complexity, more healthcare providers are beginning to look to clearinghouses to help them improve revenue cycle management (RCM) overall.
Fidel Castro’s Health Care Legacy
By David Blumenthal MD – Fidel Castro’s passing on November 25 is a vivid reminder of the outsized role that he and Cuba have played in the history and imagination of the United States.
What Does the Recent Election Mean for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?
By Robert Rowley MD – The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly?
The Cures Act and Software
By William Hyman – The current version of the 21st Century Cures Act, which has been around in various forms since 2014, passed the House on November 25th and passage in the Senate is expected.
CMS Finalizes its Measures Under Consideration List for Pre-rulemaking
By Kate Goodrich MD, MHS – Medicare and other payers are rapidly moving toward a health care system that rewards high quality care while spending taxpayer dollars more wisely.
Highlighting a Way to Advance Interoperability and Reduce Costs for Lab Tests
By Steven Posnack & Thomas Sparkman – Last year, HL7 released an implementation guide that provides a standardized way to exchange the catalogs of (thousands) laboratory tests and services that a clinical laboratory can perform.