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Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/25/2023 Leave a Comment

Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network (HIN) and leading interoperability platform launches Pharmacy Data, a new product enabling seamless access to complete medication history data from most major pharmacies. - Pharmacy Data is powered by a new partnership with DrFirst and its MedHx Population Risk Management (PRM) solution to provide deduplicated medication history from local and national data sources, including prescribing data, pharmacy
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House Lifts Ban on Funding of NPI System: 7 Implications to Know

by Jerris Heaton, Digital marketing Specialist at Medsphere 12/31/2019 Leave a Comment

House Lifts Ban on Funding of NPI System: 7 Implications to Know

The House of Representatives recently voted to lift a ban prohibiting funding for a national patient identifier system (NPI) designed to improve patient matching. So, what does that mean moving forward? Let’s dive into the implications of the House’s vote. What Will an NPI System Do? Now that the House has lifted the ban on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) providing funding a national patient identifier, it’s important to become familiar with exactly what an NPI system
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10 Considerations for Success In A Post-MACRA Value-Based Healthcare Reality

by Moshe Starkman, Senior Director, Value-based Reimbursements, nThrive 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

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The first two years of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP) are in the books and many organizations are wondering if their strong performances will ever be met with a significant upside adjustment. Year 1 (2017) enjoyed very high participation levels, 95% of eligible clinicians, but very low upside adjustments.  Between the Test Pace option, artificially low bar (3 points) for an upside adjustment, and numerous opportunities to score
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Can A National Patient Identifier Solve Interoperability Challenges?

by Our Thought Leaders 02/08/2016 Leave a Comment

Editor's Note: Thomas Grove is a Principal of Consulting and Compliance Services at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems. As a healthcare management executive with 20+ years of experience, Thomas has extensive expertise in strategic assessments and planning, revenue cycle management, and process improvement. Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread
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The Kabuki Dance Of “Blocking Data” In Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 04/13/2015 4 Comments

The Kabuki Dance Of "Blocking Data" In Healthcare

The lack of data interoperability in healthcare continues to plague and haunt the entire industry. Much of the challenge falls squarely in the realm of Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, but EHR software is by no means the only category where this challenge is directly affecting patient lives. I ‒ along with countless others ‒ have written extensively about this topic. Last year I did a 5‒part series on just "interoperability" which I published on Forbes. One piece highlighted the
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