[Sponsored] Steve Holt, Vice President of Government Affairs with PointClickCare, discussed what hospitals and ACOs need to succeed with alternative payment model programs such as AHEAD, TEAM, and ACO REACH The post Beyond the Hospital Walls: Thriving in Value-Based Care appeared first on MedCity News.
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Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters discusses rising Workers Comp cost in California: Of particular interest is the growing prevalence of unlisted codes in physical medicine (PM). Last year saw a huge jump in PM services coded as 97799 – “unlisted physical medicine”. Note that jump happened while the use of normal/traditional/common PM codes for…
Despite the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) over the last couple of decades, essential patient information often gets trapped within the walls of individual hospital systems. Here’s a potential solution. The post Designing a National-Scale FHIR API Ecosystem Using Apigee: Architecture Patterns for Secure Healthcare Interoperability appeared first on MedCity News.
When workers feel stuck in place, with limited opportunities to advance or deepen their skills, disengagement tends to follow. In allied health roles, where burnout is already high and many touch the patient experience, it is a risk healthcare employers cannot afford to ignore. The post Healthcare Retention Depends On Better Pathways, Not Just Better…
The American Heart Association is backing an AI startup aimed at improving detection of hard-to-diagnose conditions like cardiac amyloidosis and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The company, named Ultromics, offers a platform that analyzes routine echocardiograms to help clinicians catch disease earlier, particularly for women who are more likely to be missed. The…
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Stephen Konya, Chief, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, ASTP with the Department of Health and Human Services, will speak at INVEST, MedCity’s annual investor conference in Chicago, May 20-21. Register today! The post HHS Health IT Innovation Exec Joins INVEST Agenda at Critical Time for the Department appeared first on MedCity News.
Working at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, D.C., Houston Stevens provided valuable services to some of the world’s most well-known people: Michael Jackson, Prince and Whitney Houston, as well as international diplomats such as former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. After more than 20 years of experience at the Four Seasons, The Mirage and…