Healthcare information interoperability has been in the news a lot in 2017. This fall the Acumen blog featured a 3-part series by Eddie Hedrick reviewing the interoperability landscape. Eddie’s … [Read more...]
Interoperability and a Framework for the Trusted Exchange HIT
We’ve talked the talk about Health Information Technology (HIT) interoperability for a long time, but progress has been slow. The 21st Century Cures Act legislates that diligent work on … [Read more...]
Patient-Driven Health IT
I regularly read Dr. John Halamka’s Geekdoctor blog to keep up with the latest health IT (HIT) news. Dr. Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO, is an HIT policy expert, traveling around the U.S. and the … [Read more...]
The Measure of Patient Engagement
Do you believe in left- and right-brain dominance theory? In popular culture, left-brain thinkers excel in math and logic and right-brain thinkers are more creative and visual. Left-brain folks are … [Read more...]
Health IT: The Dawning of Millennial Healthcare
My daily news routine includes listening to NPR during my morning commute and clicking on my iPhone “News” app at least once or twice during the day. Recently online news headlines have started with, … [Read more...]
Grace Hopper and the Hour of Code Project
In the Acumen blog last week Diana Strubler tackled the Quality portion of the MIPS composite score, otherwise known as the “Monster of MIPS”. The Abominable Snowman of Quality with big, scary teeth … [Read more...]
Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA)
In this week's video, Diana expands on Dr. Ketchersid's explanation of Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, a new element of the MIPS score. Check out the blog post for more information, and feel … [Read more...]
