Recently in this blog Terry pointed out that the Emperor may, in fact, not be wearing new clothes when it comes to the impact of the value-based payment modifier (VM). At the risk of turning value … [Read more...]
The U.S. Health IT Future: 10-Year Vision
Terry’s June 23rd blog post on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT) 10-Year Vision highlighted the 3-year, 6-year, and 10-year HHS targets for health IT (HIT). His post noted … [Read more...]
The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: A Valuable Data Pool
Dive into the clear blue. The pool is full of warm water molecules aggregated to suspend your body and create a swimmable fluid. This is not a puddle-jumping experience, with many small pools of water … [Read more...]
FHIR: Fast, easy, and free
Summer is finally here, even in Boston. Lilac and honeysuckle scent the air and the warm sun lingers until almost 9 pm. It’s time for flip flops, t-shirts and s’mores. There’s nothing better than a … [Read more...]
Highlights from the eHealth Initiative National Forum on Data & Analytics
eHealth Initiative (eHI) is a nonprofit group in Washington, DC that works to improve Health Information Technology (HIT) through stakeholder networking and advancing the national HIT dialogue. The … [Read more...]
Mobile Devices in Healthcare – It’s Time to BYO
Bring Your Own, BYO, takes me way back to my young adult days when small parties were often BYOB since none of us could afford to provide all of the alcohol. To us it mostly meant bring your own … [Read more...]
EHR Adoption Yields Big Data Returns
In late March The Atlantic published an interview with David Blumenthal entitled “Why Doctors Still Use Pen and Paper.” This is a great conversation about EHRs and why providers have had a hard time … [Read more...]
SRA Tool: A Gift from the Government?
In a blog post last July, Terry Ketchersid reviewed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Terry noted that one portion of the Act was designed to provide insurance … [Read more...]
