CMIO NEWS ARCHIVES

This week I cover 2 stories about health insurers pushing us more towards value than volume. Humana launched 2 new bundled payments; one...

Hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. It was beautiful here on the east coast and the beaches were plenty busy. This week I cover...

This week I cover the Amazon Halo wearable and all the things it can do. Toy or healthcare game changer? For you to decide. I also...

This week I cover the letter from AHA to the HHS about keeping telehealth going. We seem to be losing momentum, but we are not out of...

This week I cover the FANTASTIC news that CMS is delaying the penalty phase of the PAMA law that requires providers to consult with...

This week I cover how UCHealth automated prior auth processes and saved a ton of money; we should all be looking at these technologies to...

This week I cover a study from JAMIA about the completeness of problem lists; good info for you to compare how your system does versus...

This week I cover the New Yorker piece on how primary care is struggling; worth reading about to help understand what is going on in...

This week I cover 6 articles, including what UC health is doing with huge data sets to help us all understand what is working and what is...

This week I cover a story about providers predicting that their telehealth visit volumes will drop to <10% of their visits next year. I...

We are closing in on our 100th episode! Happy July 4th weekend and I hope your holiday was safe and social distanced. This week I cover...

I am back after a 1 week break, although I did record a show with Bill Russell from This Week in Health IT that will air on June 30th. I...

This week I cover stories about patients finding errors in their medical records; a lot of errors and some are scary. I go on a minor...

This week I cover an article about inequities in digital healthcare, either due to lack of internet access or lack of devices. I also...

Welcome to the first week of June and another episode of CMIOPodcast News to Know. This week I talk about non-contact patient monitoring...

Happy Memorial Day. This week I cover 7 articles CMIOs should know about; bedside smart speakers to improve patient satisfaction and...

This week I continue to work from my home office (also called the kitchen table depending on the time of day) and hope all of you are...

This week I cover a lot on telehealth, because it is finally coming to center stage in healthcare. I discuss Epic's foray into the...

This week I cover more about the Coronavirus outbreak. The article concerns me the most is about the Mayo Clinic anticipating a $3...

More Coronavirus news this week. ONC basically suspends HIPAA so states and health departments can get the data they need without...

Of course I cover Coronavirus, but it's from a CMIOs point of view. Telehealth is the big thing this week as systems try to stand up...

The Coronavirus is in the center stage and all the news stories are touching on this unprecedented times. Today I will cover the changes...

Coronavirus is the main topic in every podcast, blog, or other news medium so I can't really avoid it. But I promise not to overwhelm...

The absolute most important thing to read this week is....My interview with Jackie Drees in Becker's about physician builders. Came out...

This week I cover 2 articles relating to difficult EMR installations, healthcare IT and coronavirus (no great options here), who is going...

News this week: ONC releases its plan to reduce documentation burdens. Training investments paid off for OrthoVirginia (and measuring...

This article from Academic Medicine: (https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Commercial_Interests_in_Continuing_...

This week I cover the AMA's article about the increase in physician adoption of technology, One Medical's IPO and the impact on primary...

This week I cover some of the hype that is starting for HIMSS including an article about 5G and AT&T, Microsoft has an article too. ...

News stories this week touch on a variety of things Epic is up to. The letter from Judy to health system CEOs made the news and if you...

This week I review the 5 year strategic plan presented by the ONC, and the lobbying fight that is ensuing. The mud slinging is far more...

This week I cover a few stories about performance in pop health, including the announcement about the NextGen ACOs not creating enough...

Starting the year off with some important topics. Seeing some early adoption of AI and I believe we will see AI become more mainstream. ...

This week I cover the ONC data revealing safety issues in our EHRs, the limited data in the literature about how we should train medical...

This week I cover 5 articles. The first is about a Florida medical group that got fined y the OCR for not releasing records to a patient....

This week I cover a story on the patient safety risks of the EHR, The difficulty of getting adoption for value based payments, a study on...

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! This week I cover an article about chatbots, GE entering the AI healthcare space (a bit late if you...

This week Google and Ascension have been in the news. I cover what their doctors are saying they are doing and it sounds like they can...

Interesting article from HISTalk that shows a CMIO earning 770K while the CIO is at 500k (you don't see that every day); the article is...

This week I cover 2 articles out of KLAS. The first confirms what we already knew - EHR training improves provider satisfaction and...

This week I cover 6 articles from the HealthIT space. Two are editorials written by doctors about their dislike of Epic. Optum buys...

News review for the week: A 312 page report from the National Academy of Medicine on clinician burnout makes into the Washington Post...

Does the Information Blocking Rule in the 21st Century Cures act basically require systems to release their provider notes via their...

Lots of activity from HHS this week. I review the proposed rule change to the Stark law which has significant impact for CMIOs. Also,...

Today I review the news about how Providence/St. Joe's tackled master data management for their 20,000 provider network, some tech...

This week I cover the new FDA guidance for CDS tools, the new CMS rule for reducing burdens in healthcare, Yale's experience with cost...

This week I cover recent studies about medication alerts, the latest hospital taken down by ransomware, a physicians impact on patient...

This week I picked 2 articles about telehealth, 2 on AI, one about hospital coding, and I wrap it up by highlighting the Becker's column...

Cerner lays off some people in an effort to maintain 22% margins, physicians write more narcotics late in the day or when they run...

This week I cover ZocDoc for online scheduling (why do we need this?), a fancy new command center in Orlando, price transparency, and...