DPC Physicians Are Running Blind Without Clinical Data
Real-time access to clinical data would reduce the wasted time and effort tracking down referral records and enable a more proactive, rather than reactive, approach to patient treatment plans.
Primary care has to lead healthcare progress in 2022
Primary care has demonstrated remarkable resilience in spite of the intense pressures of the pandemic, and there is critical work to do to help our nation recover from the wide-ranging consequences of Covid-19.
Solera Health’s Playbook To Beat Rising Employer Expenses
Solera Health is working to streamline employer contracting with health tech.
Entrepreneurs at work: It takes more than number crunchers to make big data useful
I have a great job because every day I get to talk to smart people doing interesting work to make healthcare better. In February’s MedCity News Hangout, I spoke with four of those people about big data. The conversation included a designer, a neuroscientist, an expert in consumer payments and a doctor. Each person brought […]
Survey: Quality metrics make their way into more physician compensation packages
As reimbursement moves toward value-based payments, so are healthcare organizations slowly adjusting their physician compensation plans to factor in quality metrics. A new report from healthcare human resources firm SullivanCotter found that most organizations still base physician compensation on productivity. But a third of organizations the firm surveyed said they also used performance-based metrics, like […]
I doubt higher debt will encourage doctors to go into primary care
I woke up today and found a weird headline in my inbox: “Med School Debt May Push Docs to Primary Care.” It struck me as weird because I thought it was commonly agreed that the effect is the opposite. To the extent choice of specialty is motivated by concerns over debt repayment, it should push […]