Care Relationship Management

Care Relationship Management systems are used to derive apparent current care relationships from historical health care data and to management the capture and change control workflow associated with the process by which patients and care providers view, validate and edit declared care relationship data, as needed to support care processes, provider performance measurement and Accountable Care Organization processes.

Don’t pave the cow paths: The challenge of re-conceptualizing health care processes

There is a popular adage for information technology professionals: “Don’t pave the cow paths.” I recently worked with a client from Texas, and they were fond of this adage. They said it with the most excellent drawl, giving it extra credibility, as if they may have actually learned it the hard way on their own

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Google engineering too slow? Facebook too invested in the wrong data model to adapt? Are you kidding me?

Few things in my work life are better than finding mind-blowing information from other industries and figuring out the implications for healthcare. I recently read a set of slides by Paul Adams, a user experience designer that worked at Google and Facebook.  Although Adams’ presentation had 224 slides, the main thesis was relatively simple and

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Klar 2: The great attribution debates: Include specialists or not? Plurality or majority? Retrospective or prospective? Derived or declared?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation.  He published a recent series of three posts (post 1, post 2, and post 3) regarding the draft rules of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in the Health Affairs Blog, an

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