FEATURED CONTENT

• The ABC Of Physician Engagement And Why Point-Of-Care Support Is Needed For Physicians

  4/23/2018

  In January 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services set a goal to tie 50 percent of the Medicare payments to value or quality by 2018. This transition has put physicians on the frontlines of healthcare, as they play a major role in the value-based roadmap of an organization.

• HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, HITECH/ARRA: Healthcare's Acronyms Spell Opportunity

  10/13/2010

  Capitalizing on recent legislative and regulatory mandates will require modifications to existing billing processes and systems as well as the adoption of new technologies. By Bill Carns, MBA, CMPE, CHBME, PracticeMax
• Medical Practice Reclaims Space Once Used For Paper Records, Adding Room For Teaching And Patient Care

  12/2/2010

  In a unique blend of the old and the new, innovative Australian specialist orthopaedic surgeon Dr. George Murrell has worked with Motion Computing’s Tablet PC technology to create a cutting-edge paperless medical practice in a renovated old church in southern Sydney. By Motion Computing, Inc.
• Preventing Email Data Breaches In Healthcare

  7/23/2018

  You don’t have to be a cybersecurity expert to know that data breaches are an all too common occurrence in healthcare. According to the 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, healthcare suffered more breaches than any other industry in 2017, accounting for almost a quarter of all breaches investigated during that period. Consequently, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) were the most common types of data compromised overall, more so than banking and payment card details.

• HIT, AI, And Machine Learning: A Reality Check

  4/16/2019

  In the healthcare IT space, there are two buzzwords du jour: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These concepts—which are often used interchangeably, but have distinct meanings—have been linked to everything from drastically changing future patient experiences (undoubtedly true) to completely replacing physicians with robots (not likely).

• Is It Time To Get Away From The Idea Of “Patient Experience”?

  11/5/2020

  For the last 20 years, the healthcare industry has been slowly shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care. We’ve seen the advent of the triple aim, the quadruple aim, pay-for-performance, and ACOs. All of this in an attempt to move from paying for healthcare based on quantity to paying for quality and outcomes. In the meantime, we’ve also seen a rise in consumerism and a focus on patient experience. And we tie those to the goals of value-based care. But the very word experience suggests we are still thinking about healthcare as episodic, and episodic care is susceptible to massive disruptions like those we’ve seen with COVID-19.