by Jack Hueter | Dec 15, 2017 | Health IT, MACRA, MIPS
I recently read an excellent article in HFMA by Julian Harris, MD, MBA, and president of CareAllies. entitled “Crafting a comprehensive MACRA strategy- In a time of change in health care, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is one thing...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 30, 2017 | Electronic Health Records, Events, Health IT
The Alliance for Health Policy** hosted a summit in Washington D.C. in early November to discuss the future of healthcare delivery and the role that the healthcare workforce will play in that delivery. The panel of experts discussed that healthcare is at a crossroads...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 29, 2017 | Health IT
I recently wrote an article about blockchain and since then I was interested to read a Black Book report showing that interest in blockchain is growing exponentially in healthcare. In fact, 88 percent of payers are considering implementing blockchain according to the...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 18, 2017 | Health IT, Uncategorized
Understanding cybersecurity is critical in healthcare. According to Becker’s Health IT, the Emergency Care Research Institute (non-profit research group) ranked Ransomware as the No. 1 health technology hazard for 2018 – it even beat out infections caused by...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 16, 2017 | Health IT, Telehealth, Telemedicine
We Baby Boomers believe we have changed the world but many of us Boomers have Millennial offspring and it is clear that they are changing the world but in a different way! Two areas where the changes are very evident are in technology and healthcare, or it could be...
by Jack Hueter | Nov 9, 2017 | Health IT
According to a Sept 2017 article in MIT Technology Review, there are 26 different electronic medical records systems used in the city of Boston, each with its own language for representing and sharing data. Critical information is often scattered across multiple...
