MACRA Time: Value Based Payment Writ Large

8 years ago

MACRA, the current framework for Medicare physician payments, specifically quality incentive payments, took effect January 1, 2017. The 2015 law…

HIPAA Chat With David Harlow

8 years ago

If you missed the most recent HIPAA Chat, you can catch up now. Please join us for future editions live (check…

Stolen Laptops Class Action Gets New Legs

8 years ago

Longtime HIPAA aficonados will recall that there is no private right of action under HIPAA. In other words, a patient…

For want of a breach notification….

8 years ago

To ring in 2017, OCR announced its first HIPAA settlement based on late reporting of a data breach. Presence Health,…

Executive Order On Unwinding Obamacare Largely Symbolic

8 years ago

In one of his first official actions as President, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order "minimizing the economic burden of the…

Bundled Payments: Panacea, Perdition or Something In Between?

8 years ago

A recent piece in JAMA highlights the fact that bundled payments incentives involving shared savings bring down the cost of…

Of Borges and Big Data, Or: Is Big Data Too Big?

8 years ago

…In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety…

Joint Commission: The Latest on Text Messaging Patient Care Orders

8 years ago

Over the past five years, the Joint Commission has frowned, smiled and again frowned upon the use of text messaging…

LabMD: Long and Winding Road to Vindication?

8 years ago

LabMD is a clinical lab that was put out of business by the actions of a computer security vendor and…

AMA releases anti-venom for digital snake oil

8 years ago

In June of this year, American Medical Association President James Madara pronounced much of digital health technology to be snake…