Health system and health plan leaders across the country are asking the same question: how will our organizations survive and thrive in a value-based world? As the shift to lower-cost settings...

There are over 5,000 hospitals in the United States, each caring for the country’s growing population of more than 325 million people. Aside from integrated health systems, many of these...

Last week, CMS released its proposed rule (beware – in good government fashion it’s a whooping 607 pages) for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program....

While healthcare frets and obsesses about the state of exchange between providers, payers have been relatively slow to embrace modern ideas about data movement. On the federal level, Blue Button 2.0...

This post is the fourth in a series of guest blog posts by some of our sponsors from their perspective on Convergence. Authors: Bharat Sutariya, MD, Vice President & CMO, Population Health, Cerner

This post is the third in a series of guest blog posts by some of our sponsors sharing their perspective on Convergence.

This post is the second in a series of guest blog posts by some of our sponsors from their perspective on Convergence. Authors: CareEvolution - Michelle Blackmer, Brandon Savage, MD; Greg Paulson,...

This post is the first in a series of guest blog posts by some of our sponsors from their perspective on Convergence. Author: Mark A. Caron, CHCIO, FACHE, CEO, Geneia LLC

Successfully enabling an Accountable Care Organization is extremely challenging: There isn’t one standard ACO model; there isn’t one single ACO national policy; there isn’t one specific map to follow...

APIs (application programming interfaces) are a hot topic in healthcare these days. In the parlance of the moment – interest inside the health IT (HIT) bubble is strong. During the past few months, I...