Government & Policy
The roadmap is designed to improve the exchange of critical health data between healthcare entities within states.
The year ahead holds both opportunity and uncertainty, the consulting firm noted, with the Affordable Care Act’s fate coming into question as healthcare organizations move into the new world of value-based care and other advances.
A new report compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that a steep drop in hospital-acquired conditions has accompanied a decrease of 3 million adverse events in the past five years.
Services include primary care, health education coaching, prevention and wellness screening as well as population health offerings.
Big Blue’s top executive also plans to invest $1 billion in workforce training.
See the new class of social media-savvy executives, innovators and healthcare professionals that will fuel the conversation leading up to, during and after this year’s conference.
National Coordinator Vindell Washington said unlocking health data is the mission and he showed off FHIR-based technologies doing exactly that.
The projects will delve into palliative care, depression, asthma, pediatric cancer as well as patient-centered outcomes.
A new survey reveals that patients want more connected healthcare, easier access to their records and more than half have tried to compile their own medical records.
Obama signs 21st Century Cures Act into law, funding precision medicine, Cancer Moonshot, EHR impro…
Vice President Biden joined the president in signing the bill, which passed through Congress with overwhelming approval.