Healthcare IT News July 16, 2015
Don Yish, Virtual Health

‘Electronic medical record, member portal, case management, and other vendors do not produce PHM systems’

The healthcare industry is infamous for its overuse and misuse of buzzwords and acronyms. Many of them arise from the ever-changing regulatory shifts designed to improve quality care and reign in increasing costs. The one constant in healthcare is change, and the industry is scrambling right now to adapt to historic change in the early wake of the Affordable Care Act and the ever-increasing migration from traditional fee-for-service models to value-based care. Byproducts of this new healthcare landscape are new buzzwords that are once again being misused, or at the very least are misunderstood.

One of the more commonly misused or misunderstood buzzwords today...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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