I’m excited to announce that MEDIS, LLC is sponsoring the Digital Quality Summit, hosted by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and HL7 on July 12 -13, 2022. I will also be moderating sessions during: Track 2: An Innovative Digital Quality EcosystemTrack 3: Digitally Enabled Care Innovation for Clinicians & Patients Please join me!…
I am very proud to announce that MEDIS, LLC achieved designation as a Veteran-Owned Small Business today, December 22, 2021. The process was detailed, but I received tremendous support from Lisa, the VA Case Manager assigned to my application. She was incredibly informative, responsive, and guided me through each step. Thank you, Lisa! I…
Original version posted on LinkedIn, Thursday, 10/7/2021. Today [October 7, 2021] is my last day at NCQA. It has been a privilege and honor to work with so many mission-oriented, dedicated, and incredibly hard-working people. I am proud of their accomplishments and grateful for the opportunity to have been a member of the NCQA…
I like drawing parallels between nature, strategy, and business principles. In this case, Liriodendrons and Leadership. Perhaps because of my undergraduate degree in Forest Biology, I have always been fascinated by trees and, more specifically, tree roots. Even as a child, I remember being drawn to the exposed roots of downed trees and the…
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, telehealth use skyrocketed. Barriers to uptake that seemed insurmountable before 2020 melted away. The public health emergency prompted (temporary) decisions about issues such as reciprocal licensing, reimbursement, privacy/security, and acceptance of telehealth as an appropriate modality for the delivery of healthcare services. Many organizations are advocating…
Part of a new rule published last month by CMS included an attestation measure for eligible hospitals to report completion of an annual, self-assessment of their EHRs using SAFER Guides beginning in 2022. The authors of the SAFER Guides (Drs. Dean Sittig and Hardeep Singh) described the development and rationale underlying the guides in…
After two years of prodding my spouse to let me buy her a new computer, the old PC left her with no choice – it decided not to wake up. A couple of days later, though, I was able to jumpstart it and we rescued her important files (don’t get me started about how…
In a recent Ideas and Opinions piece entitled, Restoring the Story and Creating a Valuable Clinical Note in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Gantzer et al call for clinicians to, “…reclaim the clinical note as a means of showing the cognitive processing involved in turning medical information into a thoughtful assessment and plan.” They…