Special Episode 2: Ten-Minute MACRA: Terms & Definitions
With the proposed rule comes a whole new set of acronyms, terms & definitions that you need to learn to better understand the actions proposed in the regulation. This episode will help you learn...
View ArticleSpecial Episode 3: Ten-Minute MACRA: What’s MIPS?
A major component of MACRA’s proposed rule is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, otherwise known as MIPS. This episode will provide an overview of that section of the proposed rule.
View ArticleSpecial Episode 4: Ten-Minute MACRA: What are APMs?
A major component of MACRA’s proposed rule is the Alternative Payment Models, otherwise known as APMs. This episode will provide an overview of that section of the proposed rule.
View ArticleEpisode #19: Innovation, UX & Health Care vs. Healthcare
In this age of rapid digital transformation, the speed at which innovation occurs often impacts success. We know this is true for organizations, but what is its role in systemic transformation? As we...
View ArticleEpisode #20: Creating Value for Caregivers from HIT
Health Information Technology is firmly within the domain of those who provide health care. Physicians, nurses and others document our care encounters. Increasingly, however, we hear of creating a...
View ArticleSpecial Episode 5: Ten-Minute MACRA: The Impact of Protecting Patient Health...
There are a number of ways through which the protection of patient health information can impact the ability for a clinician to receive reimbursement under the regulations included in the MACRA NPRM....
View ArticleSpecial Episode 6: Ten-Minute MACRA: How Does the Quality Performance...
This episode reviews the proposed structure of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System’s Quality Performance Category. We will discuss how the Quality Performance Category will affect eligible...
View ArticleEpisode #21: The Value of “People” vs. “Patients”: Understanding Long-Term,...
Roughly 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. They will keep doing so for another 13 years. Chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure & cholesterol are more common amongst...
View ArticleEpisode #22: HIMSS August Update: Women in HIT & LTPAC Trends
In this episode, we find out more about the HIMSS Women in Health IT initiatives from Carla Smith, EVP at HIMSS and gain a perspective on trends in the long-term, post-acute care (LTPAC) marketplace...
View ArticleEpisode #23: The Impact of Long-Term Post-Acute Care’s Digital Divide
We’ve all experienced this, right? Mom falls. Dad is getting too difficult to take care of alone anymore. Grandma finally agrees to let someone help her so she can stay at the house where she and...
View ArticleEpisode #24: The Value of Health IT Policy
When it comes to governing, everyone has an opinion. It was Thomas Jefferson who said “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves.” But on the other...
View ArticleEpisode #25: HIMSS August Update: The Value of Listening: Pastoral Care & The...
Ever since our earliest days, there has been a connection between the calling to heal the body and the calling to heal the spirit. Ancient texts speak of this connection. Buddha says “Every human...
View ArticleEpisode #26: Clinical Analytics & The Power of Perspective
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. When those words from the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” were first published in 1798, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described a...
View ArticleEpisode #27: Honoring Humanity During Technological Change
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” At the time when the 13th century Persian poet Rumi wrote those words, the world and human...
View ArticleEpisode #28: Health IT Public Policy: A Participatory Sport, Pt.1-MACRA
Perhaps Otto von Bismark was on to something when he said “laws are like sausages; it’s better not to see them being made.” So what is it about the two, laws and sausages, that metaphorically link them...
View ArticleEpisode #29: Health IT Public Policy: A Participatory Sport, Pt.2-Public Health
Much like our nation, our US public health infrastructure grew in fits and starts, with help from patriots across the political spectrum. In 1798, President John Adams, a federalist, created the first...
View ArticleEpisode #30: Health IT Public Policy: A Participatory Sport, Pt.3-Advocacy
Fredrick Douglass once said “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground;...
View ArticleSpecial Episode: HIMSS 2017 Davies Award Application Process- An Overview
Gain insights on the new application process for the 2017 HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence from Jonathan French, Senior Director, Health Information Systems at HIMSS.Click here for more on the Davies...
View ArticleSpecial Episode: HIMSS17 Networking Tidbits: Jeff Coughlin on Federal Health...
Enjoy some HIMSS17 networking tidbits from Sr. Director of Federal & State Affairs Jeff Coughlin to have at the ready when you bump into the thought leader on the elevator who’ve you’ve always...
View ArticleSpecial Episode: HIMSS17 Networking Tidbits: Samantha Burch on Congress &...
Enjoy some HIMSS17 networking tidbits from Sr. Director of Congressional Affairs Samantha Burch to have at the ready when you bump into the thought leader on the elevator who’ve you've always wanted to...
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