Moving Forward Cerner’s annual user conference (CHC) last week gave us an opportunity to speak...
Consumer-Driven Forces Disrupting Primary Care
Growth & Change The traditional model of consuming healthcare services is changing. Frustrated...
Connected Care: Are We There Yet?
Progress? Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are acknowledging the need for next generation tools to...
New Insight Report on Moving to Open Platforms Now Available
All of the factors driving the adoption of platform thinking in the wider economy across other industries — escalating demand for better user functionality, customers seeking an outcome rather than a transaction, rapidly changing payment models — are present in healthcare. Yet HCOs and their HIT vendors cling tenaciously to closed, transaction-based systems and methods of doing business.
Current Applications of Risk Identification and Stratification in Provider-led Care Management
A Shift in Responsibility What has changed in the last 2 or 3 years is that now providers are...
FHIR — The Healthcare Platform Enabler
The Plan FHIR is the new, open way to represent clinical, financial, and administrative data about...
Making the Most of the CCM Code
Challenges of Billing One of the most buzz worthy topics at the recent HIMSS conference was CMS’...
HIMSS Will not Have Dragons or Acrobats This Year: Clinician Network Management Watchlist
During the Middle Ages, London’s Bartholomew Fair grew from what we would call a trade show for...
HIMSS’15: Care Management & Care Coordination Watchlist
In preparation of attending HIMSS 2015 next week, I have been busy finalizing my agenda. It has...