On this episode, Rick Moore, CIO at NCQA, joins us for a discussion about what’s next for digital quality measurement. Rick likes to call this Digital Quality Measures 2.0 and you can see it coming to life in . The program aims to take burden…
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They say that civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them. To me, that’s the promise of technology and it’s particularly true when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning….
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On this episode, we talk with John D’Amore. John is Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at and has been working on Quality Measures in healthcare since the early 2000s. Yup, pre-EMR quality measures! John takes us on a fascinating journey…
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Quality… What does that mean in healthcare? How can it be measured? Is it the same for everyone? Who gets to decide? These are just a few of the incredibly difficult questions that the healthcare industry is grappling with as we enter the age of…
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The healthcare industry has lots of problems, lots of money and is in a constant state of change. With those characteristics, it’s no wonder startups are throwing their hats in the ring in increasing numbers. The theory is that they’ll take some…
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The entire healthcare industry went digital in a very short time. We’ve barely got our arms around the mountains of data created every day in our transactional systems (i.e. EMR, Scheduling, RCM, etc.). Now the genomic, and device-generated data is…
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The most important thing we do on The #HCBiz Show! is confront reality. We don’t complain about how things are, or how they ought to be. We know that’s a dead-end. Instead, we examine our current situation and identify our obstacles. Then we come up…
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Healthcare is the most intermediated business in the history of the world. There’s always someone, and usually several someones, in between the clinician and the patient. Similarly, while most of us working on the business of healthcare will…
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That may be the best advice I can give the healthcare industry at this point. On this episode, we talk with Dave Marotz, Director of Directory Services at Surescripts to break down the Provider Directory…
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This week’s guest is Martin Dunn, CEO of Gaine Healthcare. Martin frames up the current state of provider data and directory issues quite well with this quote: “It doesn’t matter how much you regulate the docs, It doesn’t matter how much you’ve…
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