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Why Reform Legislation Won’t Solve Healthcare’s Ills

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jun 29, 2017 | Archives

The Senate’s recently released bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of healthcare delivery and how we fund payment for services. Although the ACA needs improvement to modify economic incentives to drive...

Why HIT Tools Can Help Organizations Navigate the Challenges of Growth

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 14, 2017 | Analytics

With the big bang of electronic medical record installations mostly over, many in the industry wonder what comes next. Optimization is at the top of most providers’ lists, seeking to better use EMRs to achieve clinical and financial outcomes. However, other...

Repeal and Replace: It’s Complicated

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 7, 2017 | Archives

This past February, the President announced that the delivery of healthcare to America’s 300 million residents embraced more complexity than he previously realized. Only a few days before, at the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando, former Speaker of the House John...

3 Ways to Improve Return on IT Investment

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 22, 2017 | Healthcare IT

This past February, the President announced that the delivery of healthcare to America’s 300 million residents embraced more complexity than he previously realized. Only a few days before, at the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando, former Speaker of the House John...

Build a Care Team

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Dec 7, 2016 | Healthcare IT

With healthcare complexity increasing daily, traditional models of delivering care fail to offer a viable framework capable of delivering high quality care at a reasonable cost. The rapid and ever-changing medical knowledge makes It impossible for any healthcare...