In the care management plan puzzle, payers in the healthcare system hold key pieces needed to complete it. In fact, they’re often the only ones who know the full picture of the services a patient is receiving. Taking the time to understand the role of payers in care...
Hospital readmissions continue to be a significant patient-safety issue that plagues the healthcare industry. Despite the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) in 2012, the 30-day...
Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, acts as a senior advisor at Maryland-based CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients), a regional health information exchange (HIE), and is an advisor to the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, a collection of...
The eBook addresses health IT’s role in strengthening efforts to reduce health disparities through data standardization. BALTIMORE, March 31, 2022 – Audacious Inquiry, a national industry-shaping health IT company, today published a new eBook highlighting the...
If the first month of 2022 is preview for how the rest of the year will shape up, we are in for an exciting ride on the healthcare interoperability track. On January 7th, efforts to standardize health data took a major leap forward with the release of Project US@, a...
Claims data is created each time a patient covered by an active health insurance plan visits a healthcare provider. After the visit, the provider will submit a summary of services rendered to the patient’s payer for reimbursement, and that information forms part of...
On January 18th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Recognized Coordinating Entity, the Sequoia Project (“RCE”), pushed TEFCA forward in a major way with the release of the initial Common Agreement, QHIN...
