This month, CMS released the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule, which also governs the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for healthcare providers. Check out... More

As a result of significant and rapid acquisition activity, or in some cases simple organic growth without strong governance, many healthcare organizations remain highly siloed,... More

On July 13, 2021, CMS released the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule, which of course also governs the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for... More

This week, Micky Tripathi (National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) and Mariann Yeager (CEO of the Sequoia Project, the TEFCA-Recognized Coordinating Entity) announced that they... More

A Community Connect program is a strategic decision by a health system to extend its Epic electronic health record (EHR) software to community physicians and/or... More

The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements and more recent attacks on people of Asian descent have focused attention on continued injustice toward vulnerable populations.... More

“Oh sorry, I couldn’t get off mute.” In the past 15 months, almost every remote technology employee has become painfully familiar with this phrase. Adjusting... More

For those of you who are familiar with the earlier Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program, the FCC has announced that an additional $250 million... More

“Checking in, Mr. Weichmann?” Such a short, little sentence, yet its absence from my world lately has put a whole new spin on my professional... More

Planning for system cutovers takes time and attention to detail. In our first blog on the topic, we reviewed the different preparation considerations of an... More

The year 2020 may, in certain information security circles, be defined by two words: massive and devastating. But was it actually? That may be a... More

Cutover planning for any technology implementation, whether it is a clinical equipment deployment, electronic health record (EHR) implementation, or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system... More

I often hear project team members and leaders during budget revisions say, “Whoa, how did this get missed in our original planning estimates and why... More

This is the eighth and final blog in a series looking at different aspects of implementing Enterprise Imaging (EI). Find links to blogs one through... More

You enter the elevator with your hospital/health system chief financial officer or chief medical officer, and the conversation goes something like this. “How did the... More