Proper care coordination depends on a longitudinal care plan that all members of a care team can...
Payers Accelerating the Move Towards Value-Based Reimbursement
Chilmark Bight Recently, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced plans to accelerate the...
ONC Catalyzing a National Interoperability Plan
ONC’s first draft of a nationwide interoperability roadmap is ambitiously vast in scope, but...
The Current State of the Interoperability Crisis
A Long Way To Go The lack of interoperability between healthcare applications has long been...
Can Using an HIE for Orders and Results Land You in Club Fed?
Tread Softly Pay-to-play is a cornerstone of many extremely efficient and perfectly legal markets....
Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement
For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief,...
A Layer Above it All: Healtheway’s Value Prop
Now that NwHIN has been spun-out into the public-private entity Healtheway one has to wonder...
The Promise of a Little Blue Button
Yesterday, I was in Washington DC to attend ONC's Consumer Health IT Summit. While having high...
3 Questions: A Conversation with Dr. Blumenthal
This week, the well regarded periodical, Health Affairs published its annual issue that focuses on...