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Advancing Digital Quality: Addressing Data Challenges to Improve Performance
As health care continues its digital transformation, interoperability and data quality are critical to measuring and improving patient outcomes. Whether focused on HEDIS®, value-based care or broader quality measurement activities, reliable data—facilitated through...
Six Foundations of Highly Productive Technology Teams: How to Handle System and Talent Transitions
There is one certainty in healthcare IT. Teams, tasks, and technology will always change. Maintaining a productive and efficient team culture during these transitions is essential to keep up with today’s fast-paced and connected health IT ecosystem. A well-developed...
Electronic Quality Reporting Window Closing on MSSP ACOs: Time for Action Is Now
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) face unique burdens to comply with CMS’s new quality reporting requirements as summarized in this 2021 MedCity News article. Challenges are particularly acute for ACOs that delayed conversion from CMS’s Web Interface to the new...
HIStalk Interviews Jason Brown, CEO, MRO
MRO's CEO Jason Brown is interviewed by HIStalk, healthcare IT news and opinion. Tell me about yourself and the company. I have been in the healthcare technology space for almost 20 years. I have been working at the intersection of providers, payers, rev cycle,...
Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three...
MRO’s Dedication to Interoperability Meets CareFirst for Healthcare Interoperability
Today Sandy Vance talks with Mo Weitnauer, the chief product officer for MRO Corporation. MRO’s partnership with CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield unlocks the potential of payer-provider data exchange for organizations to improve financial performance and healthcare...
Bridging the Trust Gap Between Providers and Payers, One Record at a Time
MRO wants to make the exchange of data between providers and payers more frictionless. They have developed a new solution that caters to this payer-provider interface. By bridging this data gap, MRO aims to enhance trust between providers and payers.[dnxte_button...
6 steps to prepare now for looming information-blocking requirements
The 21st Century Cures Act includes provisions aimed at identifying and stopping information-blocking practices that interfere with reasonable seamless sharing of electric health information. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...
How a payer-provider collaboration around quality reporting can reduce costs and improve patient outcomes
Too often today, relations between provider and payer organizations can become contentious around issues related to payment and quality of care. Yet such conflict does not serve patients well, because it deflects these organizations’ attention from their underlying...