This week, Julie Creswell and Reed Abelson published an interesting piece in the New York Times about how the war between hospital chains puts doctors
Today, the CMS announced that it added another 89 ACOs to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Including the original 6 Physician Group Practice Transition
This morning, the United States Supreme Court made its landmark decision to uphold the health care reform law. I am very happy about it
I choose to be an optimist. I can visualize a health care system that is better than the one we have. A system where we
Improving health care requires convincing people to make changes. Changing a care process begins with changing the minds of the people involved in that process.
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
In a recent blog post, I attempted to summarize the legal arguments behind the debate about the constitutionality of the health care reform law —
Trinity Health – Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) recently announced that they signed a three and a half year agreement under which
I spend most of my time thinking about how to improve a broken health care system, and how to leverage information technology to enable improved
In a very interesting recent post to the Health Affairs blog, Ken Kaufman challenges the widely repeated assertion that the current low level of health