The first HL7 FHIR Developer Days conference held in the Americas just wrapped up. Today’s guest blog is by J2 subject matter expert Ayesha Lefebvre. She attended the conference in Boston last week and wrote about her favorite takeaways.
Director of Innovation at J2 Interactive, Steve Heard, takes us through some of the exciting elements in the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, the new way of leveraging data that’s more scalable and simpler to maintain than anything we’ve seen before.
Post-acute care continues to be a rapidly growing segment within healthcare. The growth has been driven both by economics and by technological innovation. On the economics front, insurance companies and Medicare have reduce reimbursements for readmissions that occur shortly (10 - 31 days) after a patient has been discharged. Beginning in October 2012, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce payments to inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) hospitals with excess readmissions. [...]
Like many states across the country, Rhode Island is working to address the opioid addiction epidemic. Also like other states, Rhode Island runs a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) as one strategy to mitigate the crisis.
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