The door has closed on guideline.gov, which provided physicians and others with information on best medical practices, but ECRI Institute said it will maintain a version of the resource.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has plans to host a competition that addresses patient data integration issues. The contest will take place this fall.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
CMS, in conjunction with AHRQ, announced two new programs, called the Shared Decision Making Model and the Direct Decision Support Model.
One study found that first-year residents in internal medicine spent 5-7 hours a day — about 40 minutes per patient — reading and entering data into EHRs. Another article urged healthcare executives to pay attention to physician complaints about EHR usability.
Also, groups react to healthcare elements of the federal budget deal, and get ready for the seamy underworld of digital health.
"That rate is still too high," AHRQ said in its report, even though a press release from HHS tried to paint a rosier picture.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions have been focused on a handful of diagnoses and on government payors (primarily Medicare). In order to get a handle on the roughly 15% of the U.S. health care spend that goes to readmissions, it is vital to have a better understanding of what these readmissions are for, who is […]