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Healthcare IT Predictions for 2018
Happy 2018 to everyone. This article is about my predictions in Health IT for 2018. This should be an interesting year for healthcare overall and we should see continued strong investments in Health IT. Information Technology provides the tools and processes for the...
Cancer Moonshot and the Lancet Oncology Commission: How We Can Use Information to Transform Cancer Treatment and Prevention
The Cancer Moonshot initiative began with $195 million in new cancer activities at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Fiscal Year 2016. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) received $300 million in FY 2017 for Cancer Moonshot through the 21st Century Cures Act....
The Cancer Moonshot Initiative and the Blue Ribbon Panel recommendations – Technology Helps Lead the Charge
We have been hearing a lot about brain cancer lately, especially in light of John McCain’s journey down that road. Joe Biden has offered a message of hope through his Cancer Moonshot initiative results. I will post articles on the progress of this initiative in the...
The NIH “All of Us” Program – Healthy 2018: The largest Wearable Technology Project in the US
During the past several decades, it has become apparent that a person’s “health” is influenced by many more factors than health care alone. These other “determinants” are defined by the environment- where we are born, live, work, and age. The financial, social,...
Where is the Dept. of Veterans Affairs heading?
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that Steve Shulkin, Veterans Affairs Secretary, wants to expand the use of private sector providers in veterans’ healthcare. Shulkin said that he’d like to increase competition between the VA’s health system and...
MACRA – Optimizing for 2018
My last article reviewed MACRA for 2017/2018. According to the article in HFMA by Julian Harris, there are some activities that can help build a successful MACRA program no matter where a physician organization is on its MACRA journey. Following are ideas on some...