By Nagaraja Srivatsan – The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced healthcare’s Triple Aim concept, with the objectives of reducing healthcare costs, increasing patient engagement, and improving health outcomes. To optimize the system’s performance, the ACA mandated a total redesign of the way healthcare is organized, managed, paid for, delivered, and consumed.
Read More
By Alan Portela – With the ONC’s recent release of their 10-year interoperability vision, it might seem like the industry is starting to make things easier for clinicians. In reality, 2015 is starting off to be one of the worst times ever to be a physician.
By Bennett Lauber – Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theories of cognitive development helped pioneer the field of developmental psychology and influenced generations of elementary school curriculum.
By Paul Bradley – In the coming years, healthcare organizations’ success managing population health will hinge on capabilities that other sectors of the American economy have relied on for over a decade.
According to French abstract artist Robert Delaunay, “Our understanding is correlative to our perception.” Many in the healthcare community may have the perception that all physicians oppose the transition to ICD-10. That is simply not true.
By Jonathan Catley – Unlike a majority of marketers who promote a single product, healthcare marketers don’t often have the luxury of honing in on one specific target market.
By Donna Cusano – In 2009, the US Congress enacted the HITECH Act, as part of a much broader recovery measure (ARRA or ‘the stimulus’), authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to spend up to $35 billion to expand health IT and create a network of interoperable EHRs.
By William Hersh, MD – Lately I have received requests for advice from physicians in training asking what they can do to make themselves more competitive for clinical informatics fellowship positions. In some sense these are similar to the emails I receive from established physicians asking about eligibility for the clinical informatics subspecialty here and now.
By John D’Amore – Prepare for a data deluge. Stage 3 of Meaningful Use will provide unprecedented access and interoperability of clinical information in electronic health records. In this article, we highlight several key considerations of the new proposed regulation for health information technology, published here on March 20, 2015.