ONC Announces App Challenges Winners
ONC announced the Phase 2 winners for the Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge and the Provider User Experience Challenge. Challenge were designed to spur development of market-ready apps.
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ACO Members Facing 2017 Penalties Can Submit PQRS eCQM Data
By Stacy Tyman – CMS final rule on changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program requirements acknowledged that there were some ACOs who did not successfully report Quality Measures Data for their members in 2015.
4 Ways to Meet the Growing Revenue Cycle Personnel Skills Gap
By Sondra Akrin – Eight out of ten hospitals under 100 beds are engaging in RCM outsourcing because of lack of skilled staff. The retirement of the baby boomer generation is putting a personnel strain on all businesses and healthcare is no exception.
Why Data Lake is the Future of Healthcare?
By Abhinav Shashank – Unstructured data has always been a complication everywhere, and more so than anywhere in healthcare industry. Invaluable information is at stake, all due to unstructured data and the difficulties in accessing it.
Joint Commission: The Latest on Text Messaging Patient Care Orders
By David Harlow – Over the past five years, the Joint Commission has frowned, smiled and again frowned upon the use of text messaging for transmitting patient care orders. The latest clarification …
Telemedicine News & Updates 1-11-2017
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news includes EarlySense, American Well, American Telemedicine Association, athenahealth, SnapMD, American Association of Diabetes Educators, WellDoc, Visiomed Group, BewellConnect, Northwell Health, and Avizia.
CMS to Test Two Models to Boost Patient Engagement
CMS is launching two new models to help determine what works best when it comes to encouraging shared decision-making between doctors and patients.
New Payment Models Announced to Improve Cardiac and Joint Care
CMS finalized new Innovation Center models that continue the Administration’s progress to shift Medicare payments from rewarding quantity to rewarding quality by creating strong incentives for hospitals to deliver better care to patients at a lower cost.
Is Your Practice Making These 6 Common Care Coordination Mistakes?
By Christian Kratsas – Care coordination missteps are damaging to providers across the healthcare industry and one huge, overarching mistake is apparent: not enough information is being shared.