Government & Policy
Officials describe the center as "an interactive setting" for testing interoperable IT products, and "providing demonstrations of the value of health IT for patient care."
Joining the interactive patient care vendor as CIO, former ONC deputy principal director David Muntz will draw on his policy and HIT experience to fuel patient-provider partnerships.
Several big name hospitals, including Cleveland Clinic, Boston Children's and several University of California entities, recently landed National Institutes of Health funding to speed innovations in public health.
In a new role that will put his health IT expertise to work improving the performance of small physician practices, former National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, will join the Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform as a visiting fellow.
The non-profit institution announced late Thursday that Farzad Mostashari, MD will join to concentrate on EHR adoption, HIE, accountable care, among other health IT and policy work.
Along with IT, the agency has seen an uptick in interest about policy and healthcare legislation, an official said, offering a glimpse of what to expect at the conference.
Healthcare delivery that stresses value over volume requires a transformed business model, says Marjie Harbrecht, CEO of HealthTeamWorks in Lakewood, Colo. In order to be sustainable, she adds, the business model must adequately incorporate provider compensation, and spur all providers on the care-delivery team to deliver higher value care.
The Medical Group Management Association is holding its annual conference a bit early this year -- from Oct. 6 to 9 -- in the ocean-side city of San Diego. Here is our top 10 list (in no particular order) of how you can make your conference experience a memorable one.
This year's Medical Group Management Association annual conference is all about getting down to the nitty-gritty, said Robert Tennant, MGMA's senior policy advisor.
Even amid the government shutdown, the new online insurance marketplaces -- known as health insurance exchanges -- were up and running today. There were early reports of computer glitches across several states. Some states, with large numbers of uninsured are dealing with problems of a different sort.