HIMSS17 News and Resources for Healthcare

Exploring MIPS Advancing Care Info, Improvement Activities

March 1, 2017 - At HIMSS17, CMS leaders took the stage to ease provider concerns about the newly launched Quality Payment Program and its more popular value-based reimbursement track, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Following up on their MIPS quality and cost performance category session, the federal agency held another discussion on the other two...

Preparing Providers for the Healthcare Consumerism Shift

February 27, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

With a couple of swipes and clicks, patients are driving the shift to healthcare consumerism in the palm of their hands. But many healthcare organizations are not finding it as easy to align their care...

Understanding 2017 MIPS Quality, Cost Performance Categories

February 24, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

CMS leaders at HIMSS17 were not shy with telling session attendees that they are currently in the first Quality Payment Program performance year. To help providers better understand the program, which...

Healthcare RCM, Patient Collections Solutions Launch at HIMSS17

February 23, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

ORLANDO - With over 40,000 healthcare stakeholders milling around Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center for HIMSS17, big and small vendors were eager to show off the latest and greatest...

Payer, Provider Dialogue Key to Prior Authorization Reform

February 22, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

ORLANDO - Prior authorization reform has recently been a hot topic for many healthcare industry groups and it was no different at HIMSS17. To find out more about what providers and payers plan on...

Creating a Population Health Management Operating Model

February 21, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

ORLANDO - “Collaboration is a critical piece,” Steven Merahn, MD, emphasized during his HIMSS17 session on developing an operating model for population health management that functions...

MACRA Implementation, Healthcare Consumerism Trends at HIMSS17

February 10, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

As healthcare stakeholders are packing their bags for the upcoming HIMSS17 conference in sunny Florida, many are expecting to learn about the hottest healthcare revenue cycle management topics from the...