HTI-5 is open for public comment, but it only makes sense when placed in context. This article explains how 45 CFR Parts 170 and 171 shape what the rule actually changes.

The potential overturning of the Chevron deference by the Supreme Court in a case related to Atlantic Herring Fisherman could have significant implications for healthcare.

With a bundled payment model the payer reimburses the provider or health system for all services, procedures, tests, medications, etc. within a set of defined parameters for each individual patient.

Capitation-based reimbursement is a population-based model that involves paying a predetermined per-patient amount to cover all services over a period of time. The patients/persons that are covered under a capitated model are sometimes referred to as 'covered lives'.

Do you think that a restaurant would survive if there was a 'market price' label beside the entree and your final bill was broken down into dozens of items? Why is that ok in healthcare?

A high-level overview video to review the 8 exceptions providers, health IT developers of certified IT, HINs, and HIEs have available with the new Information Blocking rule. (Transcript included.)

In the 21st Century Cures Act, section 4004 indicates that an entity cannot information block. The rule applies to health care providers, health IT developers of Certified Health IT (so system developers), as well as health information networks (HINs) and health information exchanges (HIEs).

An overview of the US Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program EHR reporting requirements for CY 2020.

To improve interoperability in healthcare it's important to consider coding standards. For clinical measurements and observations can we use just one?

With the number of codification systems used in healthcare it can be hard to keep track of what they are all for. ICD, DRG, CMG, CCI, CPT ....