Category: Healthcare Reform

Interoperability, Patient Engagement, Analytics..Why all the buzz?

It was too predictable not to happen – proper exchange of data between disparate systems (interoperability),  getting patients more involved in their own care (patient engagement) and transferring data into information (analytics) from the time healthcare first embraced using electronic

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2015: What might we expect from the healthcare industry

Last year was the first for many aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) including health insurance exchanges and government regulated mandates for participation. In previous years, we saw health data become a prominent issues with the introduction of Meaningful

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About Accountable Care Organizations

Healthcare as we know it is undergoing immense changes. For someone in the healthcare industry, this comes as no surprise. Many of these changes will specifically affect the insurance industry and how physicians receive reimbursement for their care of patients. 

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Emergency Care under “Obamacare”

“Packed waiting rooms and we will have to see 50 patients or more in a shift,” answered one emergency room physician.  This was in response to my question of how the Affordable Care Act will affect the volume of patients

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