Bipartisan CHRONIC Care Act of 2017 aims to improve chronic care coordination By Sam Peirce In April, new legislation was introduced in the Senate that seeks to streamline chronic care coordination and strengthen treatments for patients struggling with chronic illnesses. On ... June 20th Share
What is interoperability, and how can independent practices benefit from it? By Aviel Ettin For independent providers, providing coordinated care can be a huge challenge. When your patients see specialty providers, or have lab tests, or receive services at other healthcare ... June 15th Share
Elements of an ideal EHR By Parker Nieves An electronic health record (EHR) system that is poorly designed may actually require more of an independent physician’s time and focus than was intended by the advance in technology. ... June 15th Share
CMS notifying physicians this month about MIPS eligibility By With the launch of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reimbursement Act of 2015 (MACRA) earlier this year and the reporting aspect in full effect, CMS plans to tell doctors by the end of May if ... May 18th Share
Risk assessment in Elation: empowering independent physicians to make more informed decisions in real time By Elation’s Risk Assessment feature, which allows users to track and manage their patients’ complexity using the Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) system, is now available to all ... April 24th Share
Fixing the cost and quality of healthcare by addressing lack of competition By It’s no surprise that the US healthcare system “does not work as well as it could,” as researchers Martin Gaynor, PhD, Paul Ginsburg, PhD, and Farzad Mostashari, MD point out in a new ... April 20th Share