The ginormous spring HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) meeting is ending. The big big subject this year? Interoperability — the ability of different systems to link up, transfer data, and actually operate through each other. Here’s why...
The collision between the “volume-to-value” movement and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries over the next few years will have a powerful impact on them and on the healthcare industry and on us as customers, patients, and payers. On the one hand, pharma is...
I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a...
By now, you have likely heard analyses of last week’s Obamacare-killer King v. Burwell Supreme Court case. But what will make a real difference to you and your organization? Here are the three things you most need to know about the case: Which outcome you should be...
