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Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance
By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Jeffrey McCullough
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The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Electronic Health Records; Digital Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Service Delivery; Performance Evaluation
Holmgren, A Jay, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Jeffrey McCullough. "Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 6 (June 2018): 654–660. (Editor's Choice.)
- November 2019
- Article
A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement
By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details
Manickas-Hill, Olivia, Kevin J. Bozic, and Thomas W. Feeley. "A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement." Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Reviews 7, no. 11 (November 2019).
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
same time, we want to support those in need, to give them a "fair shot," so we make use of policies such as the earned income tax credit, childcare subsidies, and Medicaid to help people work their way into the broad middle... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
of subpar hospitals could take years, but solving these prospective problems could improve care for Black patients immediately. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could require ambulances to bring patients to higher-quality... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
expanded Medicaid coverage for nearly all low-income individuals with incomes at or below 138 percent of the poverty line, and almost half of the previously uninsured individuals who gained coverage under Obamacare received it through... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
during the review process, so they can gauge a medication’s value. In the US, Medicare and Medicaid typically don’t consider a drug’s performance in coverage decisions. “These are big pieces of the puzzle,” Stern says. The US “would need... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
Advantage members in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia. One approach to scaling was to maintain a focus on Medicare Advantage but expand into new geographic markets. Alternatively, CareMore could focus on serving new populations. For example, CareMore had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Medicaid Services (CMS) indicated that CMS embraces value as a priority. Nonetheless, serious questions remain as to whether the ACA has improved the value Americans receive in cancer care. Value in cancer care balances outcomes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
priorities, according to the researchers. “Easing the pathway to alternative coverage could really make a difference,” Dafny says. Streamlining applications to different forms of government assistance could help. For example, unemployment offices could coordinate more... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
all of those who signed up, only about a quarter of them were truly uninsured. The rest were newly eligible Medicaid recipients (created by increases in income eligibility thresholds under the ACA), were switching policies, or had... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
offset the cost for treating the uninsured and providing medical education, and federal health-care regulators such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are looking the other way as a way of acknowledging that. "It would... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory health insurance with subsidies for low-income citizens not covered by View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain health care coverage, which, along with a View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
the monopoly power of Medicare and Medicaid enable them to underpay providers by an estimated $90 billion, sums made up by private insurers. But if the market were entirely composed of public insurers, who would take up the slack? The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
the White House. They've had conversations with multiple officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Most recently, Feeley sat down with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell—who published... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in information analytics, attempting to get their arms around the wide array of patient data. Government incentives are helping the push. In 2011, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services established incentives for doctors'... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a pattern consistent with "crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne