A version of this post, written by Mike Noshay, Rick Moore, and Michael Barr, was initially posted in the Resources section on the HIMSS website on March 9, 2023. Value-based payment models (VBPMs) depend on differentiating and rewarding entities that demonstrate higher quality, more equitable care at a lower cost when compared to similar organizations. For VBPMs…
[Originally posted on LinkedIn 7/6/22]While preparing for the Digital Quality Summit (#DQS2022) next week, I found the closing poem I wrote and delivered at the end of the 2018 in-person meeting. I tried to capture the intense and meaningful conversations I observed during the general sessions and tracks that year. For those of you…
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!…
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…
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…