Fentanyl, heroin, prescription opioids, and a growing number of synthetic drugs killed more than 50,000 Americans in 2016.
It is a statistic that is hard to compute –numbing in its scope and staggering in the sheer complexity...
Population health management has become a must-have competency for healthcare providers of all types, sizes, and specialties. As risk-based contracting and pay-for-performance arrangements start...
Patient matching errors are an insidious but all-too-common threat to patient safety in the healthcare setting. While providers have generally embraced the idea that a patient’s electronic record should follow her from the...
“Competing initiatives” is an oft repeated phrase in the healthcare industry, and for good reason. Between meaningful use, ICD-10, EHR interoperability, emerging reimbursement reforms,...
Health information exchange is both a verb and a noun, and it’s hard to have one without the other. While HIE can be as simple as sending a secure Direct message to a specialist or connecting...
There are certain occasions where more data is always better, but when it comes to repeated imaging studies for patients, the minimum amount of information necessary to make an accurate diagnosis is the...
