Aug. 31: Wednesday Blotter
I’d like to thank the HL7Standards.com community for the kind welcome yesterday. I’m happy to join the talented team here and I’m looking forward to learning about the topics that interest health care...
View ArticleSept. 21. Wednesday Blotter
While National Health IT Week technically is over, it still feels like it’s going on in our offices (naturally). There’s not as much chatter on the web so far this week, but that has only made it...
View ArticleHIT Quiz Results! Your Knowledge of The New ACO Ruling
On Nov. 3 we published a six-question, multiple-choice HIT Quiz on the final ACO regulations, which were released Oct. 20 by The Department of Health and Human Services. (For background reading on the...
View ArticleAre ACOs Like Chasing Unicorns? 32 Health Systems Don’t Believe So
As an author of a book focused on planning for Accountable Care Organizations, I’ve heard from all too many providers and consultants who believe the concept will never take off. Although I remain...
View ArticleHealthcare Technology: A Competitive Advantage in Improving the Patient...
With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability...
View ArticlePioneer ACO Update: Q&A With Health IT Leaders from Eastern Maine Healthcare...
In December 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the names of 32 health organizations selected to participate in their Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO)...
View ArticleHealthDataPalooza, Engagement and the ‘Dark Matter’ of Healthcare: Patient Goals
Engagement. This is the one word I came across over and over and over and over again last week at HealthCa.mp/DC and the HealthDataPalooza the week of June 4th in Washington, DC. There is, without a...
View ArticleHappy Birthday America! We’re All Unhappy (Unless you’re in Health IT) with...
Last Thursday the Supreme Court got us a present for our birthday, the plan we deserve, aka the Affordable Care Act. It was a grand compromise of a bill and a decision that each person in the country...
View ArticleDo a 360: How Health IT Will Make a Difference During the Next 12 Months
I’m one of those people who doesn’t feel a day over 25. In reality, I’m 11 years past my quarter-century mark. In my mind, I haven’t changed a bit. Then I see my friend’s children. Her eldest has gone...
View ArticleDeflating The Healthcare Bubble
As we get closer to HIMSS13, I think back to some of my key takeaways from HIMSS12. One of the things I heard over and over again last year is that healthcare is in a bubble. Going into HIMSS13, with...
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Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS
The 1st year report card on Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations is out. Depending on who you talk to, the story changes dramatically. As Gregg Masters pointed out, reactions to the reports on the...
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Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS: Now What?
In my last post, I made the analogy that Accountable Care and value-based payment models are doing what Microsoft did in the 80s, creating a new “OS” that simplifies care delivery, creating a platform...
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Healthcare’s New OS: Creation Spaces Built on Trust are The Key
I’ve made the case in recent posts that Accountable Care is like installing a new OS. It changes the rules for how resources are allocated, shifting control away from the system itself and more toward...
View ArticlePreparing for the Next Decade of Health IT at the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) held it’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2014. This marked the 10th year of the ONC, and the fifth since...
View ArticleA New Era of Value-Driven Pharmaceuticals
This article was co-authored with Cyndy Nayer. At the end of March the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a joint statement saying they “will begin to...
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Patient Satisfaction: Who’s Paying the Price for Happy Patients?
“Happy cows come from California,” or so the saying goes. But where do happy patients come from? Wisconsin. At least that’s what a 2013 post said on NPR’s Shots blog, that looked at Medicare...
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Using Incentives to Move from Health Care to Health: Interview with Michael...
In moving from healthcare to health, consumers and patients must be enabled to make healthier, more cost-effective choices. A large part of success may be determined by how we develop incentives to...
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Healthcare’s ‘Cobra Effect’
During a recent #HITsm chat, Don Lee mentioned “the cobra effect.” It was a term I hadn’t heard before and loved reading about the history of the term in Wikipedia: “The cobra effect originated at the...
View ArticleVideo interview with Dr. Farzad Mostashari: Health data ownership, precision...
Recorded at HIMSS16 for HealthIT.tv.
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