In November 2019, a study by Health Affairs found that only 10% of patients with online access to their electronic health records accessed their...
Information Blocking: ONC Penalties Coming Soon
January 17, 2020
Last February, ONC and CMS issued two new proposed rules that will affect health IT stakeholders nationwide. The combined proposals seek to...
A Patient's Holiday Wish List
December 18, 2019Christmas Day is only one week away! As the holiday season flies by, we’d like to share a piece originally found on OrthoServiceLine, called “What...
HL7/CAQH CORE Advance Interoperability
December 10, 2019HL7 International, responsible for the creation of the FHIR interoperability standard, has partnered with CAQH CORE to collaborate on ways to...
Improving EHR Usability Right Now
November 21, 2019EHRs have come under fire for contributing to physician burnout due to a lack of usability. But there are real ways to increase the usability of...
Is MIPS/MACRA Worth It?
November 11, 2019The Merit-based Incentive Payment System has been dismissed by providers as overly burdensome and unnecessary, and hailed by the government as the...
Concrete Steps to Success In Value-Based Care
October 22, 2019Succeeding in value-based care carries tangible reimbursement consequences for healthcare organizations. You need a strategy to get there, but...
CMS Rule Reduces Admin Burden
October 8, 2019CMS announced a new final rule on September 26 intended to reduce unnecessary burden for healthcare providers on a national scale. With a special...
Benchmarking: Why You Should Care
September 24, 2019Benchmarking focuses on examining best practices to encourage overall improvement though shared data. This is achieved through comparing one...
