To get staff on board with digital transformation, everyone who will be using the system must be included in decision-making, according to Dr. John Chessare, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Healthcare System.
How it usually wo…
ORLANDO – Healthcare has undergone a number of policy and technology shifts in recent years, and at the intersection of these changes is Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR. It’s a standard that describes data formats and an API for exc…
ORLANDO – A panel of provider, payer and tech experts speaking at HIMSS22 went beyond the issue of health equity to address ways their organizations are tracking and helping to solve gaps.
An engaged crowd asked numerous questions after the session “Ad…
ORLANDO – More than 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for at least one day during 2018, a 17% jump in about four years. While hospice care is useful and compassionate, especially when focusing on quality of life for termi…
ORLANDO – Even before COVID-19 made the business of healthcare a nightmare for countless physicians and clinicians, burnout was a prevalent issue. And even the slow, still-ongoing emergence into normalcy hasn’t been enough to ease this trend: Clerical …
ORLANDO – 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asked a panel of healthcare workforce professionals during HIMSS22 on Tuesday about what needs to be done to turn around resignations and burnout.
Eight percent of healthcare jobs are vacant, Pelley said,…
The performance of Medicare Accountable care organizations has been mixed. When ACOs were first launched, the goal was to save costs and improve quality, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offering two different models with two differe…
ORLANDO – Government health officials tied the importance of interoperability to health equity Tuesday during the HIMSS22 session “View From the Top: HIMSS Foundation Working Towards Health Equity.”
Data exchange is needed to understand gaps in the sy…
ORLANDO – It’s been less than a year since the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new measure to the Protect Patient Health Information objective requiring eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to complete an annual assess…
ORLANDO – Value-based care will continue to accelerate, and the best way forward for health systems, from both a financial and clinical quality standpoint, is to have a clear transition plan and a robust population health framework.
