Reporting quality on all beneficiaries marks a major shift, requiring thoughtful preparation and strategic planning. If your Accountable Care Organization (ACO) hasn’t started yet, don’t worry — there’s still time to get on track.
Eleven provider organizations sent a letter to HHS urging them to reconsider the new rules around quality measurement and reporting for ACOs. One of the reasons these rules are burdensome and should be revised is the lack of EHR interoperability, they said.
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
The Department of Health and Human Services put out a series of strategies to reduce the amount of time physicians spend on documentation on Monday. The report includes suggestions to standardize certain elements of EHRs, and bring federal reporting requirements up to date.
Pathologists at a dozen hospitals in the state are part of a pilot project — the first of its kind in the United States — in which they are reporting cancer diagnoses in close to real-time to the California Cancer Registry. And they are using standardized electronic forms to make their reporting more consistent and accurate.
Much like the calls for more data visualization in health IT at June’s Health Datapalooza, data visualizations can play a powerful role in improving the speed and quality of clinical trials. For example, the VP of ClinOps at a 20-year-old biotech start-up recently leveraged visualizations to help proactively manage a major last-minute patient enrollment challenge. […]