By Andy Slavitt – It’s been an honor to be a small part of making record progress in the last eight years—progress long overdue for so many. Let’s remember what things were like just a short time ago before the ACA.
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To ensure continued forward movement in adoption of electronic health information exchange and increased interoperability for care coordination, DirectTrust released a list of four recommendations for the new administration.
By Steven Posnack MS, MHS – On January 10, ONC submitted the recently published 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory, a catalog of standards and implementation specifications that are or could be used to advance the seamless and secure flow of electronic health information.
By Abhinav Shashank – Physicians are the ones anchoring the ship of healthcare in a sea of variables. Technological advancements are as they may, one cannot elude the touch and presence of a physician in healthcare.
By Suzanne B. Schwartz MD, MBA – Protecting medical devices from ever-shifting cybersecurity threats requires an all-out, lifecycle approach that begins with early product development and extends throughout the product’s lifespan.
By Jeff Jones – With 2017 upon us, many practices are scrambling to understand the Quality Payment Program final rule. The final rule was published last October with CMS making significant revisions to the proposed rule.
Significant changes to EHNAC accreditation programs to align with OCR Phase II Protocol, HIPAA privacy and security consistency, DirectTrust’s new release of Certificate and HISP Policies.
By David Harlow – Big data is useless only if we cannot understand it, if we cannot extract knowledge, and even wisdom, from the data. Big data is not useless to us if we can analyze it as it is generated, if not faster.
By Andy Bindman MD – Recently, I spoke on a panel at the Commonwealth Fund’s International Symposium on Health Care Policy. It was an honor to share the stage with my distinguished co-panelists, ministers of health from several other Nations.