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The Final MACRA Rule: Free Pass or Risk-Free Opportunity
CMS has given providers an early holiday present with the Final MACRA Rule, affording everyone the opportunity to easily avoid a penalty in 2019. This is surely reassuring news and has been widely...
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The Year’s Innovations – Wrap-up & What’s to Come!
Depending on your point of view, 2016 was either a year to remember, or one to forget—just look at the nominations for word of the year. Pundits have proposed everything from “surreal”...
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Outcomes: It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Two weeks ago, more than 40,000 people came together to network, share, and learn more about health data management at HIMSS17. As expected, we heard about the latest developments in top tech trends of...
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The Importance of Flexible Technology in High-Performance Practices
An article posted recently to LinkedIn—about the jobs most and least likely to fall victim to robot replacements—started me thinking about the place of technology in healthcare. One takeaway from the...
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If You Build It, Will They Come?
Let’s take a moment and talk about the ideal development-to-adoption scenario. For the sake of the exercise, you’re Kevin Costner. You hear a whisper about building it. You continue to explore what it...
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2018 MACRA (MIPS) Proposed Rule: The Abridged Version
The proposed rule is here, and it’s another long one! So for those who don’t have the patience (or the time) to read through the 1,000+ pages, here are some highlights from what CMS is suggesting for...
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The Top 5 Challenges for Orthopaedists
In a recent article featured on Becker’s Healthcare, 19,200 physicians representing over 27 unique specialties were surveyed on what the most challenging parts of their careers were. Here are the top 5...
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If You Build It, Will They Come?
Let’s take a moment and talk about the ideal development-to-adoption scenario. For the sake of the exercise, you’re Kevin Costner. You hear a whisper about building it. You continue to explore what it...
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2018 MACRA (MIPS) Proposed Rule: The Abridged Version
The proposed rule is here, and it’s another long one! So for those who don’t have the patience (or the time) to read through the 1,000+ pages, here are some highlights from what CMS is suggesting for...
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The Top 5 Challenges for Orthopaedists
In a recent article featured on Becker’s Healthcare, 19,200 physicians representing over 27 unique specialties were surveyed on what the most challenging parts of their careers were. Here are the top 5...
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Why an EHR Solution Is a Must-Have for 2018
Looking back at 2017 as we head into 2018, the resounding theme in healthcare has been the push to bring down costs and drive up quality by increasing efficiency and improving care coordination. As the...
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Are You PDMP Ready?
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid addiction claims 115 lives and sends more than 1,000 people to emergency rooms every day, and has killed 64,000 people...
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Better Patient Reported Outcomes Lead to Better Outcomes
Outcomes is a hot topic in the healthcare industry. It is one of the criteria being used to define value-based reimbursement strategies and, more importantly, to drive better care for patients. For...
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2.02% Reward for Perfect 2017 MIPS Score
The results are in! We now know how providers will be rewarded for their 2017 MIPS efforts. You may be disappointed to see that with a perfect score of 100, the 2019 payment adjustment will max out at...
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The Opioid Crisis, PDMP, and Interoperability
The National Crisis The opioid epidemic makes the news at least once a day in my neck of the woods. Patients, providers and the government talk about the problem and how they’re going to solve it....
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