Category: ACO

I’m in China this week meeting with government officials, hospital leaders and academics to review the policy lessons learned from HITECH, ACA, and the HIPAA Omnibus rule. I started Monday in Shanghai, meeting with Huashan Hospital to discuss their clinical data repository and healthcare information exchange plans. For them, “big data” analytics are a core…

0 Ray Dorsey, M.D., a professor of neurology and co-director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the healthcare field is moving to virtual visits because the status quo doesn’t work. “The way we provide care doesn’t work. It is not timely, equitable or efficient.” As I…

In patient care organizations, accurate clinical documentation has always been important, but in today’s shifting healthcare landscape, it has become even more of a strategic imperative than perhaps ever before. A consultant from Beacon Partners explains why. In patient care organizations, proper and accurate clinical documentation has always been important, but in today’s shifting healthcare…

Electronic health records and health IT are critical to success in health reform and new payment models, such as accountable care organizations and capitated risk contracts, according to a panel of stakeholders speaking at CMS’ fourth eHealth Summit in Baltimore May 19. read more …read more    

I recently had a chance to meet Dr. Dave Levin, the first CMIO from Cleveland Clinic, at the Texas HIMSS conference, where I spoke about Google Glass in healthcare. During his keynote, he gave a quick overview of his book – mHealth: Global Opportunities and Challenges – that I’m reading now. The most important thing…

A crucial component of the Republican Party’s assault on the Affordable Care Act always has been ignorance — that is, the promotion of ignorance about the ACA’s benefits among the general population. Now, from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., comes hard evidence that the campaign worked, bigtime. In its latest national survey to determine…

Reiterating his belief that the federal mandates for the healthcare industry are “too much, too soon,” Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka predicted that 80 percent of hospitals will fail to successfully attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2 within the allotted time. read more …read more    

Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Gary S. Jacob, will be recognized and awarded with the honorary degree, Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, from his alma mater, the University of Missouri – St. Louis, at a commencement ceremony this Saturday, May 17, 2014. …read more    

APCER Pharma, the truly global provider of outsourced services for clinical safety, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, and regulatory operations, announced that the company’s Managing Director, Dr. Vineet Kacker, will be one of the leaders in a workshop on developing a successful global Medical Affairs strategy. …read more    

As complaints and cavils about the Affordable Care Act fall by the wayside, one piece of the law looms ever larger as its most controversial element: the employer mandate, which in 2016 will impose a penalty on businesses with 50 to 99 employees for not offering them health coverage (Michael Hiltzik, 5/12). …read more