Payers, as with the rest of the healthcare industry, have a lot on their plate right now. Healthcare reform, via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues its march forward despite legal and political uncertainty. Struggling to define the payer role in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), understanding the impact of Health Insurance Exchanges (HIXs) on their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare reform’
Looking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses: Part Two
Posted in ACO, consumer health, PHR, policy, tagged Affordable Care Act, AHIP, AHIP Institute, healthcare reform, HIX, payers, PCMH on June 22, 2011 | 11 Comments »
HIEs in the Public Interest
Posted in consumer health, HIE, policy, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, IDN on July 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The Health Information Exchange (HIE) market is the Wild West right now. Vendors are telling us that they are seeing an unprecedented level of activity both for private and public HIEs. Private HIEs are being set-up by large and small healthcare organizations to more tightly align affiliated physicians to a hospital or IDN to drive [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, Innovation Center, meaningful use on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly a year after the HIT Policy Committee’s meaningful use recommendations were approved by ONC chief Dr. David Blumenthal, an extensive comment period that solicited some 2,200 comments, the final Stage One meaningful use rules will be released today at 10:00am. Details for today’s conference call are: WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press [...]
Managed Care, HIT & ARRA
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged ARRA, healthcare IT, healthcare reform on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, had the privilege to attend and present to a packed audience in New York City for CRG’s conference: IT & the Future of Managed Care: The Next Wave. Unlike most conferences I attend that are predominately focused on either the provider consumer sector of the healthcare market (tomorrow its the local New England HIMSS [...]
Martha’s Mistakes
Posted in PHR, tagged healthcare reform, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Scott Brown on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Not one to comment on broader political issues but just can’t help myself today after awakening to the news that Kennedy’s Senate seat has gone to the Republican upstart Scott Brown. Whatever happened to carrying on Kennedy’s legacy for healthcare reform, something Martha Coakley vowed to support and Brown vowed to defeat? Has Massachusetts really [...]
Obama’s Healthcare Summit: Hear it Live by Tweet or Video
Posted in consumer health, policy, tagged healthcare reform, healthreform.gov on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As just about everyone knows, Obama is hosting a huge Healthcare Summit today in DC bringing together stakeholders to have an open discussion on how we, as a nation, can reform healthcare. To tune into the discussions in real-time you have two choices. First is the new government website, HealthReform.gov which has live video streaming [...]
Day One: eHI Conference
Posted in consumer health, policy, RHIO, tagged eHI, healthcare reform, HIE on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
8:15am After the formal introductions, Karen Davis, head of The Commonwealth Fund has taken the stage. She’s beginning with the slides we have all seen (that is those of us who attend these events), unsustainable growth in spending, not getting what we paid for, etc. Their “National Scoreboard” has found quality slipping 1n 2008 from [...]
Ted Kenndy & Healthcare Reform – Local View
Posted in consumer health, policy, tagged healthcare reform, Obama, Sen. Kennedy on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Senator Ted Kennedy made a surprise return to the Hill – surprise in that he was not expected to return till January. His top agenda item is healthcare reform. And what might we expect from the Senator? Many believe that Senator Kennedy will work with the Obama administration to craft legislation that is modeled [...]
