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Patient Engagement, Patient Portal December 8, 2015

Conversations About Coordinated Care in Rural Arkansas

By Dr. Gary Bevill & William Taunton – Initially a four-doctor practice, SAMA Healthcare Services is breaking ground in coordinated, patient-centered health care in rural El Dorado, Arkansas. Although SAMA doctors had known early on that this is how they wanted to practice medicine, they could do only so much until they got support from the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, an Affordable Care Act program. Dr. Gary Bevill and SAMA patient William Taunton recently talked about the initiative.

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Health Innovation December 8, 2015

What to Do with Health Data

By Matt Fisher – A Shakespearean Tangle: The current state of medical data is very complicated. The amount of medical data being created is exploding all of the time. The explosion is being facilitated by the always increasing number of ways of creating it and a broadening array of people or entities how want access to it.

Health Information Exchange (HIE) December 3, 2015

Interoperability — Don’t Get Crushed by the Chaos

By Michelle Schneider – Interoperability is one of those words that conjures up very different visuals for each of us. Paper cups attached by string, the WiFi router in your home, the towers and satellites that allow your text to be sent across the world in milliseconds, and the NASA space station, are all examples of interoperability.

Health Innovation December 3, 2015

Health IT and the OIG Work Plan

By Matt Fisher – The annual OIG Work Plan was published on November 2nd. The Work Plan each year identifies what the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services will review and provides insight into what the OIG contemplates as risk areas.

Analytics and Pop Health December 2, 2015

Inefficiencies Lost, Productivity Gained

By Lindy Benton – Single platform healthcare communications can now be the new normal for hospitals. While EHRs are a good fit for managing data, they often exclude factors pertaining to the administrative and financial operations of the hospital. EHRs are also limited when it comes to communication.

Health Innovation December 2, 2015

The Case for Quality

By Howard Sklamberg, J.D., Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., & Melinda K. Plaisier, M.S.W. – Across FDA, we are devoting tremendous effort, in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, toward activities that drive–and increase–product and manufacturing quality.

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance December 1, 2015

Reducing Improper Payment: A Collaborative Effort

By Dr. Patrick Conway – CMS is dedicated to promoting better care, protecting patient safety, reducing health care costs, and providing people with access to the right care, when and where they need it. This includes continually strengthening and improving Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide vital services to millions of Americans.