Financing Health Care
It Won’t Be Easy By Kathryn Ruscitto Blog: Advancing Excellence Twitter: @krusct The New York Times has another lead story this morning on the cost…
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National Health Spending Growth Remains Low for 4th Consecutive Year
CMS Office of the Actuary Report The following is communication from CMS. Overall national health expenditures grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in 2012,…
ACA Changes the Healthcare Marketplace and the Economics Driving It
Flawed Accounting By Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, CMIO, Infor Follow him @bchaiken For more than a half century, the healthcare industry applied a flawed business…
Annual Reflections at the End of 2013
Another Gratifying Year William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor It has become a tradition for this blog for my last posting of…
HIT and Healthcare Pop Quizzes
Do You Know Your Stuff? What do you know about HITECH, HIPAA, or ACA? Here are some quizzes that will test your knowledge or correct…
Serious Planning for MU Stage 2
Ask Joy: This Week – Serious Planning for MU Stage 2 Did you miss it? The action plan we outlined for Meaningful Use Stage 2…
Is Social Media the New Way to Find Healthcare Jobs?
Finding Healthcare Jobs Through Social Media By Michelle Rebecca There’s no denying that social media has infiltrated virtually every part of our lives. But, what…
2014 PQRS Rule Changes
Ask Joy: This Week – 2014 PQRS Rule Changes Seems like we were just wrapping our heads around the 2013 PQRS reporting requirements, but it’s…
Rockin’ Around Health IT
Our Health IT Elves Go Classic On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree… Today marks…