Greater Collaboration Needed for Digital Health, Interoperability

June 30, 2022acoCollaboration, digital health, EHR, HIEs, Interoperability, ONC

While ONC has made significant progress toward achieving national health interoperability, continued interagency collaboration and public-private partnerships are needed to fully enable digital health, according to an article published by the National Academy of Medicine. “Through the work of ONC, data and interoperability standards have grown increasingly sophisticated over the past ten years,” the authors…

Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Accountable Care Organizations

January 18, 2022acoEHR

The usage of multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems is a common occurrence among accountable care organizations (ACOs). This paper summarizes the results of a survey on EHR usage within ACOs and discusses some of the issues this may present in reporting quality measures, including that: Just 9% of surveyed ACOs use a single EHR…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Collaborating to create seamless digital connections that transform member experiences

October 27, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAccordant, Accordant Health Services, Condition Advisor, COVID-19, CVS, CVS Health, digital experiences, digital health, digital tech, digital technology, EHR, EHR systems, Interoperability, pandemic, patient applications, patient apps, rare diseases

Download Slides Accelerated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation in health care is upon us. As we all look to rapidly adopt new technologies, deep integrations and interoperability become key components to help ensure seamless data exchange between patient applications and EHR systems. Mozzaz, a prominent virtual care solution provider, and CVS Health’s…

FLASH INTERVIEW — Healthjump — October 2021

October 7, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, aggregated datasets, Data, data integration, data processes, data processing, datasets, EHR, EHR systems, health data, health tech, health technology, healthcare data, Healthjump, historical health data, Interoperability, normalization, transactional data, transactional health data, value-based care, vbc, Workflow

 Healthjump is a data extraction, normalization, and interoperability platform purpose-built to deliver both transactional and historical health data from EHR systems. With Healthjump, users can easily connect and extract EHR data, automate data processes, access aggregated datasets, and instantly integrate data into products or workflows. Healthjump uses top-notch technology and support to simplify interoperability…

ACO Execs Describe Painful Transition to eCQM Reporting

October 1, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACOs, CMMS, eCQM, eCQM reporting, EHR, reporting

On Oct. 1, at the NAACOS Fall 2021 Conference, executives from three accountable care organizations described the daunting road ahead in transitioning to the submission of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. After receiving strong feedback from ACOs about how challenging (and expensive) the transition to eCQMS would…

What Providers Should Know for CMS Interoperability Rule Compliance

June 28, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Comments21st Century Cures Act, ADT messaging, APIs, CAH, CMS, CMS Interoperability and Patient Access, digital health, EHR, FHIR, Interoperability, NPPES, patient access, PHI

As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the federal government will require that all healthcare providers grant patients access to their personal health information starting July 1. The CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule requires payers and providers to remove the industry siloes that prevent seamless patient data exchange across the care continuum….

Best Practices for Integrating SDOH Data into the EHR

April 30, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsdata organization, Data sharing, EHR, HIEs, Interoperability, SDOH

Identifying and implementing social determinants of health (SDOH) data into the EHR is critical to finding answers to a state’s most significant issues. Once identified, SDOH data helps healthcare providers make social services referrals, but the process for doing so using technology is challenging. “It’s not that physicians have totally ignored social determinants of health,…

Lack of EHR, data interoperability holding back value-based care

September 17, 2018Garrett SchmittNo CommentsEHR, vbc

The lack of electronic health record interoperability and sharing of patient data continue to be major barriers to value-based care in Medicare. That’s the consensus of healthcare stakeholders who testified late last week before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Nishant Anand, MD, chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, said that about two…

Supporting the Independent Practice in a Value-Based Care System

July 16, 2018Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAdvanced Alternative Payment Models, APM, APMs, EHR, Independent, Independent Practices, MIPS, QPP, Stark Law

Value-based care is touted as a way of incentivizing providers to achieve the triple aim: delivering high quality care, improving population health management, and lowering healthcare costs. While shifting from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care system has the potential to improve patient health outcomes and save healthcare organizations money, the transition from the…

Value-based care will reinvigorate EHRs, boost AI, advance home telehealth

January 11, 2018acoNo CommentsAI, EHR, Telehealth, Telemedicine

The state of value-based reimbursement efforts has been uncertain. Many healthcare organizations are indeed pursuing newer strategies to replace traditional fee-for-service care while reducing costs and improving quality, but progress has often been halting. Still, experts from Cedars-Sinai, CVS Health, Blue Cross NC and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care say they’re quite optimistic for the future…

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