Posts by: Richard Taylor
March 28, 2018
National Drug Abuse/Heroin Summit April 2-5, 2018
We would like to invite you to visit us at our booth (#707) at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit that will be held in Atlanta April 2-5, 2018. The National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit is the largest national collaboration of professionals from local, state, and federal agencies, business, academia, clinicians,…
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February 7, 2018
The Opioid Crisis in Philadelphia: Killy, Dilly, Philly
Tomorrow the city of Philadelphia will hold a major parade to celebrate Philadelphia’s title as the home of America’s National Football Champions. Many fans will be sporting “Philly Philly” and “Philly Dilly” T-shirts related to the popular Bud Light commercials – which feature a king who prefers Budweiser to all other beers – and says…
December 22, 2017
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the Opioid Crisis
The current movie – The Man Who Invented Christmas – centers on the events that inspired Charles Dickens to write his famous book A Christmas Carol. In doing some additional research on this topic, I was struck by several interesting parallels between the characters and message of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and today’s Opioid crisis….
September 27, 2016
MACRA Care Coordination Software
Last week we talked about how MACRA legislation is a game changer for how providers will be paid in the future for their Medicare patients. This week we will focus on the value and benefits of using care coordination software solutions to maximize MACRA payments and care delivery productivity. Specific opportunities for using care coordination…
September 20, 2016
Accountable Health Communities Software
CMS recently announced a 5-year, $157 million program to fund Accountable Health Communities (AHC) under the CMS Innovation Center. The purpose of this new program is to assess whether systematically identifying and addressing health-related social needs can reduce health care costs and utilization among community-dwelling Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. For the first time in…
September 20, 2016
MACRA MIPS Software platform
MACRA is a game changer for providers. It represents the most significant change in healthcare payments since Medicare was introduced 60 years ago. The baseline for calculating MACRA payment adjustments starts January 1, 2017. The purpose of MACRA is to lead healthcare providers from a fee-for-service payment model to a value-based care model…
August 8, 2016
Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Software
If you are a primary care practice operating in one of 14 selected CPC+ regions (see list below) you may be eligible for a unique opportunity to earn significant additional revenue from multiple payers (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial) by participating in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program that will start January 1, 2017…
May 20, 2016
Advanced Health Models: Healthcare’s Future?
05-11-16 by Richard Taylor, Director of Business Development for eTransX Inc. Recently, the Advanced Health Model workgroup of the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee issued their initial findings and recommendations*. This workgroup, chaired by Paul Tang, MD, the chief innovation and technology officer at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is charged with finding…
March 18, 2016
Medical Data Storage and Integration – SaaS vs. On Premise
Now that Electronic Medical Records have become the norm, many facilities are looking to leverage these systems to provide more value. Orders/Results exchange with Labs, automated data sharing between practices, centralized storage, and patient record consolidation are typically the first steps. However, IT Directors may quickly find that these projects are not as simple as…
March 18, 2016
Is your HIT infrastructure ready for value-based healthcare?
The CMS and Healthcare Transformation Task Force recently announced the rapid acceleration of value-based health care: A group of the nation’s largest healthcare systems and payers, together with purchaser and patient stakeholders, have announced the creation of a new private-sector alliance dedicated to accelerating the shift to value-based business and clinical models in the U.S….
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