April 2011

Join me at WWHI’s “Discussion with the FDA” on April 28th at second Health Care Innovation Day (HCI-DC)

On April 28, the West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI) will host its second Health Care Innovation Day (HCI-DC). I found last year’s event, which was very well attended, very helpful. I think WWHI’s events are quite useful because they let you meet the government officials involved in setting policy and rules for our industry. More [...]

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Join me for my Public Sector State and Local Executives’ HIE webinar Wednesday, April 13

State and local CIOs have worked for many years  to foster the exchange of data between medical providers, health insurance plans, and government agencies.  Building out such health information exchange (HIE) networks has been a long, sometimes painful, journey because of complex technical and administrative challenges in implementing them. Join me for my talk on [...]

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Look beyond traditional health IT tools for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) implementations

As you’re probably already aware, CMS has announced the Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations or ACOs. The new program is another incentive program, like Meaningful Use (MU), but unlike MU there are no penalties for not participating in the program. In my opinion the ACO program is far more lucrative and likely [...]

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