By John Halamka MD – I recently participated in a nationwide (not the United States) healthcare IT planning effort and one recommendation was universal availability of patient portals. Several reviewers commented that patient portal is a loaded term.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is dedicated to reducing health care costs while, at the same time, making sure people get access to the right care, when and where they need it.
Provider of cloud-based patient matching solutions, announced that CRISP, a not-for-profit regional HIE serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, will use the Verato platform to automatically process the most difficult patient matching situations.
CMS recently released the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule for 2017. For organizations that have provider-based clinics, this year’s final rule offers guidance.
By Keith Boone – I had a recent experience where I saw a feature one team was demonstrating in which I could actually integrate one of my interop components to supply additional functionality.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a tool to share automatically electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program.
The American Medical Association (AMA) believes mobile health applications (mHealth apps) and devices that promote safe and effective patient care have the potential to be integrated into everyday practice.
By Sarianne Gruber – Predictive Analytics World moderator, Jeff Deal recited Ms. Bresnick’s statement to the panelists and asked “Is that statement fair? Is analytics still on the backburner in healthcare?
By Abhinav Shashank – Since 1966, Americans have received more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than rest of the world combined with astonishing advancement in medical treatments, but how much of it reflected on ground level is still a troublesome figure.