Now Available: 2018 MIPS Performance Feedback and Final Score
If you submitted 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data, you can now view your performance feedback and MIPS final score on the Quality Payment Program website.
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NEO Urology Suffers Ransomware Attack, Pays $75,000 Ransom
By Art Gross – Cybercriminals continue to flex their muscles on the healthcare industry with ransomware hitting an Ohio medical practice earlier this month. NEO Urology in Boardman, Ohio, suffered a complex ransomware attack, with hackers encrypting the organization’s entire computer system.
Essential Metrics for Improving the Healthcare Access Center Experience
By Scott Andrews – In this age of consumerism, traditional access center metrics related to “call times” are no longer the most essential metrics for measuring performance. Instead health system access centers should focus on metrics that better demonstrate…
HLTH Create Health’s Future
HLTH (pronounced “health”) is a one-of-a-kind ecosystem event for the health industry, and they are on a mission to bring together 5,000+ senior leaders to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare today and actualize the most promising opportunities to improve health.
Bridging the Digital Divide: Expanding Internet and Rural Healthcare Access
By Scott Sullivan – Internet access has been mainstream for about 25 years now. Since the days when almost every American household received an AOL installation disc in the mail, it seems the Internet has grown into a digital behemoth connecting every person across every nation.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – June 2019
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of June that we think deserve sharing again.
Precision Medicine Under the Microscope
Understanding how a person’s genetics, environment, and lifestyle can help determine the best approach to prevent or treat disease. Here is what’s happening now in Precision Medicine from Quanterix, Hacking Dermatology, Konica Minolta Healthcare, Emory Healthcare & more.
Turning Laboratory Success into Commercial Success
New Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist Episode NOW on Demand with host Dr. Nick and guest Shai Gozani MD, PhD, President and CEO of Neurometrix – a company focusing on improving the diagnosis and treatment of disease using digital technology.
Introducing Informatics.Health
By William Hersh MD – About a year ago, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) launched a new set of top-level Internet domains. One of these was .health. When to my surprise, the informatics.health domain name was still available, I immediately grabbed it.