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Driving innovation in health through the use of open data: Health Datapalooza, Year 4
One of these three is not like the others
Medicare, Accountable Care Organizations & Medical Homes: Experimental, Potential or “Essential?”
Ten Reasons Why Hospitals, Health Plans And Medical Groups Should Invest In Developing Their Physicians’ Patient-Centered Communication Skills
NEW PROPOSED CHANGES FOR HOSPICE- Changes Changes Changes: THEY ARE COMING!

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Driving innovation in health through the use of open data: Health Datapalooza, Year 4

Published Tue, Jun 06 2013 2:30 PM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, EHR, Health IT, HITECH, Medical Home, Health information technology, electronic health records, accountable care organizations, HIE, Public Health, ACOs, Social Media, cloud computing, mobile devices, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Care Quality, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, Medical research, mobile health, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, mHealth, Technology in healthcare, Pfizer, sanofi, wireless health, Participatory Medicine, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, National Health Service, big pharma, Institute of Medicine, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Secretary Sebelius, transparency, Todd Park, clinical trials, Change Management, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, health outcomes, data liquidity, health insurance exchanges, pay for performance, PATIENT-CENTERED, health care costs, Datapalooza, Leonard Kish, Britian, information access, stakeholders, Office of Information Products and Data Analytics, self-tracking, informed patients, self-monitoring, Blue Button Plus, Athena Health, open data, Health Datapalooza, Center for Democracy & Technology, Health Data Consortium, health data liberation, Dwayne Spradlin
One of these three is not like the others

Published Sun, Jun 06 2013 6:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, Politics, Obama Administration, poverty, Technology in healthcare, District of Columbia, Washington Post, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, NPR, Ezekiel Emanuel, proton beam therapy, Medical Ethics, SAFETY NET AND HEALTH, Running a Hospital, Paul Levy, Johns Hopkins, Low income healthcare recipients, expensive technology, status quo, value in health care, health care waste, profits, corruption, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Huron Healthcare, United Medical Center
Medicare, Accountable Care Organizations & Medical Homes: Experimental, Potential or “Essential?”

Published Sun, Jun 06 2013 3:34 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medical Home, accountable care organizations, ACOs, Health Care Quality, Medical research, Health affairs, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Payment, Pharmaceuticals, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Innovation Center, Jaan Sidorov, health care costs, Disease Management Care Blog, behavioral economics, co-pays, out-of-pocket costs, access to medical care, Medicare Essential
Ten Reasons Why Hospitals, Health Plans And Medical Groups Should Invest In Developing Their Physicians’ Patient-Centered Communication Skills

Published Thu, May 05 2013 7:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, productivity, Patient Engagement, adherence, Patient Safety, Health Care Quality, critical thinking, Medical research, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Face-To-Face, health disparities, Payment, shared decision-making, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, medical errors, physician leadership, physician-patient communication, Patient experience, health outcomes, behavior change, Medical Ethics, medical malpractice, PATIENT-CENTERED, health care costs, health care incentives, generic drugs, readmission, chronic conditions, Mind the Gap, Steve Wilkins, Patient-centered Communications, unnecessary medical testing, patient satisfaction surveys, Avedis Donabedian
NEW PROPOSED CHANGES FOR HOSPICE- Changes Changes Changes: THEY ARE COMING!

First… The CMS proposed rule “Medicare Program; FY2014 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update; Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements; and Updates on Payment Reform.” was released April 29, 2013 and the questions have been frequent per CMS. Though...

Published Fri, May 05 2013 3:31 PM by Select Data

Filed under: CMS, Select Data, OASIS-C, 2014, CMS Guidelines, Hospice, MEDPAC, ASAP, LTCHs, QIES, QRP, FY2014 Hospice Payment Rates, Payment Reform Discussion, Skilled Nursing Faclities, Assessment and Processing, Quality Improvement Evaluation System, SelectData, IRFs, Inpatient Rehabilitation, Long Term Care Hospitals, ICD-9 CM, General Inpatient Levels of Care, QRP data, SNF, GIP
Hospital Chargemasters and Open Data from CMS — The conversation continues

Published Sun, May 05 2013 10:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, accountable care organizations, ACOs, David Harlow, Health Care Quality, People in healthcare, prevention, Health care professionals, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Change Management, healthcare price transparency, fee-for-service reimbursement, Leonard Kish, data sharing, value-based model, healthcare payment reform, HealthBlawg, Gilles Frydman, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, hospital chargemaster
An average hospital is…..?

Published Mon, May 05 2013 7:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health insurance, penalties, hospitals, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Bradley Flansbaum, health care costs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Skilled Nursing, not-for-profit hospitals, for-profit hospitals, HCUP, The Hospital Leader
Useless noise from CMS

Published Fri, May 05 2013 2:32 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Reimbursement, Medicaid, penalties, hospitals, Health Care Quality, Payment, Brent James, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, President Obama, rationing care, Change Management, healthcare price transparency, Running a Hospital, Paul Levy, health care costs, readmission, robotic surgery
Billing Compliance, Q Codes, Edits and Audits: Compliance in the Home Health Industry an Update

CMS revised the requirements on “April 19, 2013 to delete “and indicating whether services were added to the HH plan of care by a physician who did not certify the plan of care” from the Provider Action Needed” section of MLN Matters numberMM8136 Revised...

Published Tue, May 05 2013 6:40 PM by Select Data

Filed under: CMS, Home Health, Compliance, CMS Guidelines, Billing, Q-Codes, Billing Compliance
Response to ONC RFI on advancing interoperability of EHRs and HIE

Published Wed, Apr 04 2013 7:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, ONC, electronic health records, HIE, interoperability, David Harlow, HHS, People in healthcare, Regina Holliday, Technology in healthcare, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, direct access to labs, Change Management, health information exchanges, empowered patients, Society for Participatory Medicine, attestation information, HealthBlawg, meaningful use stage 3, Blue Button Plus, Dr. Mostashari, Health Foo
Nephrology and eRx

A look at a report describing the experience with the CMS eRx program through 2011, with a glimpse at eRx penalty-related information for 2012.

Published Mon, Apr 04 2013 4:16 AM by Acumen nEHR™ | The Only EHR Designed Specifically For Nephrology -

Filed under: CMS, eRx
Electronic Health Records Not Only Don’t Save Money…. They Increase Health Care Costs?

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 10:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, EHR, Health IT, Health information technology, electronic health records, Health Care Quality, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Jaan Sidorov, health care costs, Effectiveness/Efficiency, Disease Management Care Blog, unnecessary services, diagnoses, health care waste, US Senate, unnecessary medical testing, code creep, partisanship
Collateral Damage

Published Mon, Apr 04 2013 3:43 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, FDA, hospitals, Patient Safety, Health Care Quality, Informed consent, Medical Education, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Fraud, Medical devices, Technology in healthcare, Best practice, Don Berwick, Health care & health policy, transparency, medical errors, physician leadership, Cardiovascular, hospital adverse events, Medical Ethics, Educate the Young blog, Dave Mayer, provider accountability, FDA approval process, caregivers, hospital administration, Dan Walter
ONC Holds A Key To the Structural Deficit

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 7:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HITECH, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, data security, interoperability, HHS, Shared Savings, social security, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, consumer engagement, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Change Management, employers and health insurance, TED talks about health, health information exchanges, health insurance exchanges, Society for Participatory Medicine, health care costs, patient advocates, health care incentives, unnecessary services, Triple Aim, The Health Care Blog, subsidies, patient privacy, health care technology, DirectTrust, Blue Button Plus, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD, pricing transparency, consolidation
Big Data and the Coming New Value Proposition for Disease, Care and Wellness Management Providers

Published Fri, Apr 04 2013 4:12 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, Health IT, Health information technology, disease management, informatics, Shared Savings, Medical research, People in healthcare, Technology in healthcare, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, big data, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Change Management, PREVENTION AND WELLNESS, population health, Genes & genomics, genomics, health outcomes, Care Management, empowered patients, Jaan Sidorov, PATIENT-CENTERED, clinical judgment, Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, Disease Management Care Blog, health insurance claims, correlations, privacy regulations

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