Following the CMS patient access deadline on July 1, 2021, the nation’s top EMR vendors and large provider organizations are aligning themselves with a future in which their patients are more active participants in their own care.  ..read more

The view from the floor  ..read more

The view from the floor  ..read more

After a canceled HIMSS20 and much hand-wringing and last-minute changes of plans in the past couple of weeks, HIMSS21 officially kicked off yesterday. You’ll find 18 Lyniate employees at the conference, including Stephan Rubin, our roving reporter and senior product manager. Here’s his take on day one of HIMSS21.  ..read more

Here it is again. A once in a lifetime (or twice, if you were around for the switch to value-based) chance to reposition your organization in the competitive payer market and come out on top.   ..read more

We don’t need Dorothy to tell us we’re not in Kansas anymore. It’s going on a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic steamrolled our world and our way of life. However, today, with the widespread availability of vaccines, organizations of all types are optimistically, cautiously, starting to re-open.   ..read more

Each year I look at the scheduled educational sessions at the HIMSS Conference and Exhibition to see what topics are trending and how they’re shifting over time. Last year’s conference, of course, was canceled because of COVID, but the educational sessions had already been scheduled and published, so the hiatus did not result in a data gap. This year, HIMSS is back—albeit with lower-than-average predicted attendance—and the educational track has rebounded with full force.   ..read more

Precision medicine, population health programs, and value-based payment models continue to disrupt and transform traditional healthcare markets for consumers and providers alike. Since they are data-driven, there is the need for seamless, effective communication across disparate systems (including EHR solutions that’s pervasive to the healthcare sector) to ensure their continued success ..read more

What follows is a real story. I have changed the names and some of the particulars involved for the sake of the companies and people mentioned below.  ..read more

U.S. mandates for patient access to data are complex  ..read more