Health IT Consulting Demand To Explode This Year
As payment models shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, hospitals are having to adopt new technologies and tweak existing ones. The thing is, it takes a mighty team of IT pros to make all...
View ArticleIs Value Based Care Just Regulatory and Reimbursement Hoop Jumping?
In theory, we all love the move to value based care. Why aren’t we paying healthcare providers to improve care. It just makes sense. In fact, the fee for service model in many ways feels so unnatural....
View ArticleValue-Based Care Programs On The Rise Across US, But Still Experimental For...
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve laden stories about value-based care with phrases like “if it ever comes” or “when the market is actually ready.” I’ve never been much of a capitation fan, and many...
View ArticleOld and New Technologies Blur at EXPO.health Conference
Healthcare Scene’s recent Boston conference, EXPO.health, walked the audience through numerous innovations in health IT, especially where analytics give a boost to patient care. Still, I detected at...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare Offers Health Data Support For Medicare Advantage ACO
UnitedHealthcare has struck a deal with national physician group Privia Health under which it will offer more and better data on patients enrolled in the payer’s Medicare Advantage plans. The agreement...
View ArticlePointClickCare Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Collective Medical,...
PointClickCare Technologies, the leader in cloud-based software technology for the long-term and post-acute care market, today announced its intent to acquire Collective Medical, the leading...
View ArticleFour Ways Data Transparency Helps Advance Shared Savings in Your Post-Acute...
The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, RN, Executive VP, Health System Solutions at Real Time Medical Systems. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “Pathways to...
View ArticleSignify Health to Acquire Caravan Health, Accelerating the Movement to...
Combined company will create one of the largest networks of at-risk providers, improving patient outcomes while lowering costs across the care continuum Signify Health, Inc. (NYSE: SGFY), a leading...
View ArticleCreating Healthcare Interoperability Bundles
At this point in the evolution of healthcare data, you’d think it would be easy to at least define interoperability, even if we can’t make it happen. But the truth is that despite the critical...
View ArticleDo Health IT Certificate Of Need Requirements Make Sense?
The other day, I read an interesting piece about the University of Vermont Medical Center’s plans to create an integrated EMR connecting its four network hospitals. The article noted that unlike its...
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