In February 2022 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) introduced the ACO REACH Model to promote greater health equity among the beneficiaries receiving care through accountable care organizations (ACOs). In this article, we define...
This video was initially published by Health IT Today. Last month Audacious Inquiry President Scott Afzal spoke with Health IT Today Founder and Chief Editor, John Lynn, about health equity, health disparities, and data standards as part of an ongoing series of...
Standing on the hard concrete floor in a convention center in 2021, I watched as nurses made frustrated and frantic calls to hospitals and nursing homes. Hurricane Ida had swept through Louisiana one week prior, and now instead of booths with branded giveaways, rows...
On April 7, 2022, I had the pleasure of speaking with CommonWell Health Alliance to discuss the future of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based transactions. It was a privilege to discuss how the Audacious Inquiry partnership with FHIR has...
Most healthcare providers didn’t choose their careers because they were eager to spend time chasing down clinical documents for their patients. However, the current reality is that the process of clinical document retrieval is often time-consuming, burdensome, and too...
Social determinants of health, as defined by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and...
While the high maternal mortality rate in the U.S. has been a major public health concern, it has been of particular importance in Georgia, ranked 46 out of 50 states for maternal health. The latest data shows that Georgia has a maternal mortality rate of 27.7 per...
