Last Saturday, September 17, we celebrated the 6th anniversary of our blog.
Over the past 6 years, we have seen a lot of changes in health care, especially with regard to nephrology and technology. We are so happy to have had all of our readers along for the ride, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading our posts every Monday.
We also want to thank our amazing blog authors who spend many long nights and weekends putting together the content we share with you. Thank you Terry Ketchersid, Dugan Maddux, and Diana Strubler —you are the reason the Acumen Blog has been so successful through the years. We appreciate all of your hard work, creativity, and insight into the world of health care. Additionally, we are grateful for our guest bloggers from this year—Ahmad Sharif, Carl Schick, Claudiu Coltea, and Megan McConnell—for their time and unique perspective into our practice. Lastly, we can’t forget our behind-the-scenes team. Thank you, Amy Bordoni, the Acumen blog team, and our team at McNeely Pigott & Fox. Cheers to another year!
In case you missed them, we pulled the 6 most popular blog posts from the past year:
- Clinical Practice Improvement Activities: The New Kid on the Block
- Meaningful Use in 2015-2017: Only 9 Objectives?
- The Human Condition in Structured and Unstructured Data
- How the MACRA Proposed Rule “Replaced” Meaningful Use
- The Meaningful Use Hardship Exception: To File or Not to File?
- MACRA, MIPS, and APMs: Clear as Mud?
Thank you again for your continued readership. We always love feedback! Do you have a topic you’d like for us to cover? Are you interested in being a guest blogger? Contact us and let us know! We would love to hear from you.
To celebrate our readers and the blog’s 6th anniversary, we are giving away some Acumen swag to 6 of our blog readers. To enter to win, simply comment on this post with the answers to the following questions:
- How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts?
- What types of topics do you enjoy reading about?
- What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT?
- What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months?
We look forward to hearing from you today and continuing the conversation in year 7.
Linda Berenotto says
1.How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts? Just enough. If the topic does not pertain to me, I just keep moving along.
2.What types of topics do you enjoy reading about? Insurance, ICD-10….
3.What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT? In my field, just keeping up with insurance rules and policies.
4.What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months? Keeping up with ICD-10 and various new insurances.
Acumen Staff says
Thank you for the feedback Linda and for reading the Acumen Blog!! Be on the lookout for some Acumen Swag.
Todd Little says
1.How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts? Frequency is perfect and the timing is always right.
2.What types of topics do you enjoy reading about? The latest news from Washington and CMS regarding MACRA / MIPS and how it relates to Nephrology.
3.What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT? Positioning and educating our physicians and our practice as it relates to Meaningful Use / MACRA / MIPS all while trying to contain implementation costs as it relates to these requirements.
4.What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months? Keeping Nephrology Practices up-to-date on MACRA / MIPS / Quality and Cost Performance Reporting
Acumen Staff says
Thank you for your feedback Todd. We will definitely have lots of content regarding MACRA/MIPS on the blog this year. Thank you for your continued readership.
Patricia Payne says
1.How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts?
Perfect. You do a great job of keeping us up to date on current topics.
2.What types of topics do you enjoy reading about? Medicare issues.
3.What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT? Understanding it all and keeping the rules straight.
4.What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months? MIPS
Acumen Staff says
Thank you for your feedback Tricia.
Sherry Mathes says
How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts?
Weekly blogs are the perfect frequency.
What types of topics do you enjoy reading about?
I like the topics that discuss the latest government requirements, planned or implemeted.
What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT?
I think the biggest struggle is trying to keep up with the required changes and having them implemented in a useful way into the workflow of the providers.
What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months?
Keeping up to date on government changes and how Acumen is working to help us meet the requirements. 🙂
Acumen Staff says
Thank you for your feedback Sherry. As we mentioned to Todd, we will definitely have you covered on MACRA/MIPS.
Kelley Maness says
1.How do you feel about the weekly frequency of our blog posts? I have not started reading them, yet. I did sign up today.
2.What types of topics do you enjoy reading about? I enjoy being up to date on many subjects. I do not have a specific area.
3.What is the biggest struggle you have with regard to nephrology and health care IT? I am in reception and keeping the Physician fax numbers up to date for progress notes is a total pain.
4.What would you most like to learn about in the next 12 months? Some new coding info and maybe some short cut info, that would help in the reception area.
Acumen Staff says
Thank you for being a NEW blog reader!! We hope you enjoy the content that the Acumen Nephrology Blog provides. Please let us know your thoughts once you get settled in to our Monday posts.
Misty Dykes says
1. I like the blog and the frequency, it’s just right.
2. The latest news and requirements
3. Just trying to keep up with everything and the new changes
4. MIPS
Acumen Staff says
Thank you Misty! We appreciate your feedback and thank you for reading the blog!