Direct primary care, whether concierge, or ideal or micro, or contracted by employers and even forward thinking insurers, will most likely explode in size during the next decade.
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Value-Based Healthcare Payments – What Kind of Health IT Is Needed?
Dr. Robert Rowley identifies two main areas where modern health IT will be needed for the changes toward value-based healthcare reimbursement.
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Test Your Meaningful Use IQ – Stage 2 and 2014
It’s not too early to start learning about Meaningful Use Stage 2, test your basic knowledge by taking this quiz.
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Meaningful Use of Obamacare
Healthcare.gov was “experiencing technical difficulties” again yesterday, but the system is up now. Thirty days after it went live, the Federal insurance marketplace, the flagship of Obamacare, is still hopelessly broken
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Breathing Room for Meaningful Use Stage 3 Appears on the Horizon
Amid the abundant (and yet unanswered) pleas from all quarters to extend or delay Stage 2 comes some potential good news about the scheduling of Meaningful Use Stage 3: It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Stage 3 won’t start for anyone before 2017—at the earliest.
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5 Reasons for a Digital Health Revolution
Dr. Saif Abed shares five reasons why you should wake up to the digital health revolution whether you’re an MD, CEO, regulator or anyone else.
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The Metastasizing Complexity of Templated EHR Exam Notes
If physicians are struggling with templated EHR exam notes now, their problems are bound to be exacerbated as EHRs layer more and more levels of complexity.
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Health IT Is Not A Single-Minded Monolithic Being
Like young superheroes in blockbuster movies, health IT is blowing things up randomly, while trying to understand how it should apply these newfound powers. But health IT is not a single-minded monolithic being.
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How Much More Evidence Does CMS Need? Physicians Find Meaningful Use Too Complex
What more evidence does CMS need to prove that physicians simply find meaningful use too complex, too time-consuming, and too costly?
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“Ok Glass, I Need A Surgeon..Now!” A Telemedicine Revolution or Evolution!
Some people have called me a “Telemedicine Innovator”. To me, the fact is that I only try to make the workflow easier, more efficient, intuitive and, at the end, provide as good or better patient care with new ideas and the tools already available.
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