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It’s the Quality That Counts
I. IntroductionIf you’re reading this, then you already know that healthcare in the US is complicated. Very, very complicated. It hasn’t always been that complicated, but that’s because it hasn’t always tried to put the patient at the center of the industry. We’re all fa...
The Value You're Looking For is Closer Than You Think
Andy Parr 
As I approached the doors to the nursing home, two automatic double doors parted and a familiar scent passed through. I continued forward, looking to the right with a smile and wave as I spotted the face of the receptionist. Quickly pivoting, I stopped at her desk to write and drop off a large check. After exchanging pleasantries, I headed deeper into the facility, passing older folks in whe...
A Yellow Pages... for Healthcare?
There have been many attempts over the years to have some kind of standardized directory for healthcare providers. In fact, almost every Health Insurance Payer has some sort of searchable directory of providers that participate in their network available to their members via a web portal. While these “provider finders” are very helpful for patien...
Cooking with FHIR
How do they come up with the recipes?
When you work in Health IT, it’s easy to lose sight of the ultimate outcomes of all of the work we do. Measuring clinical quality, performing evidence-based medicine research, enhancing and automating laborious manual processes like Prior Authorization - these are all means to an end result that ...
Stoking the FHIR at HIMSS24….Part 2
Wednesday afternoon brought with it another session on the Da Vinci Burden Reduction implementation guides for end-to-end prior authorization on FHIR. Susan Bellile was there from Availity to show the pilot they had collaborated on with Athenahealth and Humana to have providers be able to determine if coverage was required for a service, obtain t...