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The HITECH Act: Then, and Now

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
September 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

A stroll down memory lane

Can you believe it? Fall officially begins this Friday! The football season is underway, the leaves will soon change colors, and before you know it, the College Hoops season will begin! It is hard to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT, Meaningful Use Tagged With: ARRA, CEHRT, EHRs, Health IT, HITECH, John Halamka, Meaningful Use, Micky Tripathi, MU, National Coordinators, NEJM, ONC, Terry Ketchersid

Patient-Driven Health IT

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
July 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mobile apps

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...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT Tagged With: 21st Century Cures Act, API, application programming interface, CKD, Dr. John Halamka, Dugan Maddux, ESRD, Geekdoctor, Health IT, HIT, MACRA, MIPS, QPP, quality payment program

Cybersecurity and Blockchain in Health Care

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
April 24, 2017 Leave a Comment

Last Monday I opened up the Renal & Urology News update to find 3 recent articles about health IT (HIT) security. The first article, “Controlling Access to Health Information”, noted that the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: blockchain, cyber hygiene, cybersecurity, Dr. John Halamka, Dugan, Harvard Business Review, Health IT, HIT, mHealth, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, PHI

Health IT: The Dawning of Millennial Healthcare

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
February 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

A new dawn

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...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT Tagged With: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Andy Slavitt, CMS, cybersecurity, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, Geekdoctor, Health IT, HIMSS, HIT, John Halamka, MACRA, Mark McClellan, millennials, Seema Verma, Tom Price, USA Today

Mobile Health: Growing Engagement and New Responsibilities

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
January 30, 2017 Leave a Comment

The pervasiveness of mobile devices

This week I’m blogging about an M-word. Not MACRA or MIPS, but Mobile Health or mHealth. A warning before you proceed: The following paragraph contains a personal story that may be Too Much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Healthcare Tagged With: Acumen mobile app, Dr. John Halamka, Eddie Hedrick, FitBit, Greatcall, Health IT, iPad, iPhone, mHealth, mobile health, PHI

Advanced APM’s: Video Recap

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Join us every Thursday, for the remainder of the year, as we present the third segment of our weekly Acumen MACRA series with a video recap of Monday's post. Today, Diana Strubler, Policy and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACO, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, Advanced APM, APM, Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR, electronic health record, EMR, ESCO, FLA, Health IT, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MSSP, MU, nephrology, Physician value-based payment modifier, PQRS, QPP, quality payment program, regulatory, Terry Ketchersid, TLA, VPM

MACRA on the Menu

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
October 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

MACRA on the Menu

In last week’s Acumen blog Diana tackled highlights of the MACRA Final Rule released on October 14. She noted that the 2,398-page document is overwhelming and we are going to need to “eat the elephant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: ACI, advancing care information, API, application programming interface, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, Health IT, HIT, MACRA Final Rule, MARCA, Meaningful Use, Medicare Part B, MIPS, MIPS exclusions, MU, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), QPP, quality payment program, Vindell Washington

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