The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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 The Top HIT News for 2015

2015 brought forth a combination of developments in telehealth, telemedicine, predictive modelling, precision medicine and more.

Much of this depends upon the explosion of algorithms developed by mathematicians and computer scientists. It may be a powerful tool, when and if properly vetted by clinicians.  The proof will come, not quickly in one or two years, rather perhaps a decade long process which will filter what works and what does not.

Like everything we physicians have been taught we must maintain the patient as the focus of our work, not the tools and technologies that are developing.  Often in this era of rapid technologic advances patients can be forgotten in the era of rapid advances, venture capital and the promise of profitability for health technology. In some cases this has occured in the area of electronic health records, and meaningful use, now replaced by MACRA,.

The MACRA makes three important changes to how Medicare pays those who give care to Medicare beneficiaries. These changes create a Quality Payment Program (QPP):

  • Ending the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for determining Medicare payments for health care providers’ services.
  • Making a new framework for rewarding health care providers for giving better care not more just more care.
  • Combining our existing quality reporting programs into one new system.
These proposed changes, which we’ve named the Quality Payment Program, replace a patchwork system of Medicare reporting programs with a flexible system that allows you to choose from two paths that link quality to payments: the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models.

 CMS now has posted the timeline for implementing MACRA
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