Doubling Down on Primary Care’s Campaign Against Heart Disease
By Bob McNellis MPH, PA – If a fresh idea shows promise, it’s often worth repeating. When it comes to AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW, we’ve concluded the success is worth expanding.
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Three Steps to Better Cloud Migration Decisions
By Peyman Zand – Healthcare’s digital transformation and the need to meet patients’ consumer-driven expectations is forcing organizations to re-evaluate their core IT infrastructure, applications and data architectures.
How Hybrid Cloud and Colocation Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
By Kurt Stoever – In an information-laden world, healthcare still stands as one of the globe’s most data-intensive industries. In fact, UNC Charlotte’s Health Informatics and Analytics Data Science Initiative reports that up to 30 percent of the world’s stored data is healthcare-generated.
AHRQ Challenge Competitions: The Entrepreneurial Spirit at Work
By Gopal Khanna MBA – Recently in his State of the Department speech, HHS Secretary Alex Azar talked about the importance of using markets to put patients at the center of healthcare to deliver more affordable care and better health for every American.
Electronic Claim Payment: Why Health Plans are Pivoting to Stay Competitive
By Jeffrey Brown – The evolution of electronic claim payments in healthcare continues, with nearly two-in-three providers embracing electronic funds transfer (EFT). In an increasingly competitive landscape, many health plans are finding they need to…
Why Your EMPI Needs Address Verification Technology
By Daniel Cidon – Discussion around unique patient identifiers took center stage during the 2020 ONC annual meeting in Washington D.C. recently. Consensus among panelists, which included a diverse range of industry stakeholders, was that…
Appropriate Use Criteria Preparedness – Considerations Beyond Technical Setup
By Doreen DeGroff – January 2021 is rapidly approaching for hospitals and providers to meet the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program deadline yet many organizations are reporting that the AUC implementation is proving to be more complex than…
Updates On Additive Manufacturing In Healthcare
By Michelle Carter – Somewhat subtly, additive manufacturing has become a significant topic of conversation in healthcare in recent years. It’s the sort of thing one might not notice without looking for it specifically, but the truth is that in many ways…
EHR Usability: It is NOT A Training Issue
By Bennett Lauber – Many, many times in our usability evaluation and design career when a development team isn’t really interested in making enhancements to fix specific issues that we’ve identified, we’ve heard something like the phrase…