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From APM to VBP: Do you know your HIT Lingo?

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
December 21, 2015 Leave a Comment

How hip are you to textspeak? GM had me stumped for quite a while. I kept receiving emails that started with the greeting “GM” and I had no idea who GM was. After 50 emails it finally occurred to me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT Tagged With: ACO. ESCO, AHRQ, alternative payment models, APM, CEHRT, Don Berwick, Dugan Maddux, EHR, ESRD, FLEX-IT, Health IT News, HIE, HIT, MACRA, Meaningful Use, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MU2, national provider identifier, Nephrologists, NQA, NQS Domains, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), ONCHIT, PVBM, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Terry Ketchersid, textspeak, value modifier, value-based purchasing, VBP

Revisiting the National Quality Strategy

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
March 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

We spend a lot of time in the Acumen blog discussing the Health IT related programs nephrologists encounter during their busy lives. Recently we’ve discussed the ongoing transformation in how we are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, National Quality Strategy Tagged With: CMS, Don Berwick, Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Quality Strategy (NQS) domains, PQRS, Terry Ketchersid

The Triple Aim: HHS Means Business

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
February 2, 2015 Leave a Comment

2/2/2015…seems a bit odd to be typing that date. Still hard to believe it’s 2015 and suddenly the first month of the year is in the history books. Much has happened since we rang in the New Year. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, CMS Incentive Programs Tagged With: CMS, CMS triple threat, Don Berwick, ESCOs, Terry Ketchersid, the ESRD QIP

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