In a virtual panel discussion about public and population health at J.P. Morgan's annual conference, the CEO of Aledade shared how the quest for efficiency in a world of harried physicians' practices almost led Aledade to use a flawed ML algorithm to engage at-risk patients of those practices.
Aledade, a health IT company founded by former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari, raised $64 million in funding. Aledade operates ACOs with more than 550 independent physician practices.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
In the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of former national coordinators and a duo of health IT executives take different perspectives on the impact of the HITECH Act.
eClinicalWorks and some of its employees will pay $155 million to settle claims that the EHR vendor misrepresented the capabilities of its software and paid kickbacks to certain customers in exchange for promoting its product.
We asked individuals to contribute their memories and wishes. Many people responded.
The culprit, in Mostashari's view, was the Federation of American Hospitals, representing for-profit hospital companies.
Erica Galvez, who led development of the federal government's Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, has rejoined a former boss in the private sector.
If you are into health IT and digital health, you should follow these physicians on Twitter.
Plans are coming together for "Data Independence Day," when consumers demand electronic access to their health information, but organizers want to position it more as a movement than an event tied to the July 4 holiday.
Few industries still rely on fax technology the way healthcare does, and advocates for greater transparency in healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic can't wait for that to change.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
There's a growing sense of angst and frustration in the "data liberación" movement these days, and much of it has do with the difficulty of fighting the status quo in healthcare.
Advocates of greater patient access to health data are using Mother’s Day as an opportunity to encourage consumer to demand copies of their own health data by launching an awareness drive and online petition. “Mom is the health CEO in many families,” explained Lygeia Ricciardi, former director of the Office of Consumer eHealth in the […]
Former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari and other patient advocates are planning a "day of action" to generate mass demand for consumer access to medical records in the wake of a plan to roll back the Meaningful Use requirement for engaging patients in their own care.
At ENGAGE on Wednesday, Dr. Sachin Jain started his talk with three patient stories. In each instance, the information doctors and other caregivers needed to figure out a patient’s problem existed – somewhere. It was either not in the EHR or not in the right file or existed only in a doctor’s head. Jain put […]
Accountable care organizations could be the best way to reduce the cost of managing patients with chronic conditions in a sustainable way. But in a talk at the ENGAGE conference in Bethesda, Maryland this week, Farzad Mostashari stressed that ACOs need to be good for patients, society and physicians or the model will fail. Mostashari […]
