By Prof. Eyal Zimlichman – Seemingly everywhere you look, a wave of AI layoffs are hitting companies across dozens of industries. Tens of thousands of skilled workers are being let go in the name of administrative efficiency. Yet at the same time, others are finding creative ways to ensure AI enhances workers’ productivity rather than replacing them.
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CMS is reopening the Preview Period because 17 additional QPP performance measures were recently identified to be included in the CY 2023 QPP public reporting information. CMS also made additional updates and display corrections to the CY 2023 QPP performance data available during the Preview Period that closed in June.
The Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period officially opened today. You can preview your 2023 Quality Payment Program performance information before it appears on the profile pages of clinicians and groups on the Medicare.gov compare tool and in the Provider Data Catalog.
By Natalie Krebs – The pandemic was difficult for health workers. Many endured long hours, and the stresses on the nation’s health care system prompted more workers than usual to quit or retire.
By Gil Bashe – In today’s data-driven world of medicine, we often equate better care with better technology and better outcomes with advanced diagnostics. And yet, one truth remains: the most powerful force in healing is not found in a test result but in the presence of another human being who truly sees you.
By David Burda – Everyone knows what’s wrong with healthcare. Well-honed business practices by incumbent industry sectors and organizations make care less affordable, less accessible and less safe for patients because maintaining the status quo enriches incumbent industry sectors, organizations and their executives.
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The doctor in training remembered telling one of her patients that, come July of this year, she would no longer be her physician.
CMS opened the Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period on November 15, 2021. The Preview Period provides an opportunity for doctors and clinicians to review their 2020 QPP performance information before it’s publicly reported on clinician and group profile pages on Medicare Care Compare and in the Provider Data Catalog.
By Julie Appleby – When the pandemic sidelined in-office visits at his practice, Dr. Dael Waxman “wasn’t exactly thrilled with being at home.” But he quickly shifted gears to video and telephone appointments. Now, he finds, there are good reasons to keep these options open even as in-office visits have resumed and many parts of the country have sharply loosened coronavirus restrictions.