A recent letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to State Medicaid directors reminded me again of the critical importance of data-driven decision making and outcomes measurement […]

In part one of this series, I talked about how value-based care can allow for greater flexibility in services, while providing accountability for sustainable population health improvements. In part two, […]

COVID-19 is not finished. In fact, it is likely to persist indefinitely and will move from pandemic to endemic status as the reduction and control of the virus occurs in […]

I was recently interviewed for an Inside Angle blog post on population health and its potential impact on physician burnout. In this post, I will address how the move toward […]

Quality indicators are becoming a larger part of every provider organization’s clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and quality review process. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) quality indicators: patient […]

Managing uncertainty in health care has created a demand for actionable data to improve quality outcomes and manage growing expenditure. The term “big data” is often used to describe the […]

I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss the need for improved ambulatory safety protocols and how it could impact […]

Measuring nursing facility quality has been an important topic since the advent of Medicare and Medicaid programs. While some steps have been taken, much more work is still needed to […]

Extreme heat can be deadly. More than 11,000 Americans have died from heat-related causes since 1979 according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Europe and China experienced the hottest […]

It is widely recognized that the U.S. experiences more deaths per pregnant mother than seems reasonable for a wealthy country with an advanced health system. In fact, there are 17.4 […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems Vice President of Regulatory and Payer Solutions Megan Carr to talk about her new role as the leader of our payer […]

Clayton Christensen was a management professor at Harvard Business School and one of the founders of the “Jobs to Be Done” theory. Christensen theorized that companies err when trying to […]