Leading up to the 21st century, peer review evolved constantly, undergoing rapid change. New regulations and requirements were implemented both by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the 1960s and by the establishment of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986....
As physician practices transition to value-based care and incorporate population health management (PHM) solutions into their day-to-day workflows, there are opportunities to close the communication gaps that can lead to opioid abuse. By aggregating and analyzing data across the care continuum,...
Consider alarm fatigue. Providers are supposed to respond with the same alacrity to each of the hundreds of pings, alerts, or notifications they get every day. But these systems are often so excessive and poorly calibrated that staff become numb to them. Then, when an important alert is...
In 2019, more than 41 million patient records were breached, nearly tripling the number of breaches from 2018, according to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net.
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 2
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s granting of summary judgement, finding that an employer may offer to hire an applicant on the condition that she undergoes a medical examination confirming her ability to perform the job’s...
A recent survey shows provider directory maintenance can be expensive and that, in the absence of an affordable technical fix, you’ll have to tighten up your record updating if you want to reduce those costs.
CAQH, the nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations best known...