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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

As a result, these provider types sit outside of current interoperability and health information exchange efforts and have been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) due to a lack of government incentive programs. Since the U.S. A huge role often times. They can guide the direction of investments and focus of a company.

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It’s Time to Combat Medicare Advantage “Instafraud”

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by David Lareau, CEO at Medicomp Systems A couple of years ago, we predicted an impending “explosion” of Medicare Advantage (MA) fraud and penalties. The Failure of Reactive Approaches The current approach to combating Medicare fraud is woefully inadequate.

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ŌURA Appoints Ricky Bloomfield, MD as Chief Medical Officer

Digital Health Global

Bloomfield was the director of Mobile Technology Strategy at Duke University Health System, where he explored the world of clinical informatics, the intersection of technology and healthcare. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

EHR 60