by Sarah Doss

As the healthcare industry embraces digital transformation, Chief Technology Officers and Chief Information Officers are on the front lines—ensuring efficient and secure technology adoption. But C-Suite leaders face big challenges as they work toward digital excellence while prioritizing patient care. 

By Dr. Peter S. Tippett

We’ve all been there. Someone in our family (or ourselves) has a medical concern, schedules a primary care visit, and maybe even learns that surgery is needed. What starts as a fairly simple process quickly turns into a near-comedy of inefficiency.

By Victor Chatain, PMP

U.S. cities have had more than their share of disease outbreaks, including Swine Flu, Zika, Measles, and, more recently, COVID-19 and MonkeyPox. The roles of local and state Departments of Health are only more important.

By Scott Glasrud

The healthcare industry is at a Burning Platform moment: we must build a bridge between the current fee-for-service business model and a value-based, population health model. 

By Justin Sims

HealthTech vendors gave a fairly muted response to the recent CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services RFI. This is the 3rd post in the series summarizing feedback of key industry constituents.

By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN

As staff shortages continue to impact healthcare facilities, the growing burden on each staff member and clinician ultimately leads to higher rates of burnout and lowers the overall quality of patient care. Burnout has become so high that the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on May 23, 2022, addressing the crisis.

By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

The world is full of workflows. At their most basic, workflows are procedures coupled with communication among groups of people. I cut my teeth at age 17 as a licensed pilot and have since learned that the archetype of well-honed workflows is U.S. airline aviation, where there have been zero passenger deaths in more than four years. How does this happen?

By Justin Sims

Healthcare Providers have also replied—loudly in some cases! Our analysis of the the recent CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services RFI continues with input from several healthcare groups. Our second post provides a summary of feedback from healthcare providers and their associations.

By Justin Sims

careMESH summarizes industry feedback on the CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services Request for Information (RFI), published in November 2022. The responses indicate overwhelming support for CMS’s attention to this significant industry challenge.  In the first post, we begin with comments from the Health Plans.

careMESH sat down with Benjamin Fuentes, IT Analyst at Tampa General Hospital, to get his “boots on the ground” perspective of how the hospital’s careMESH integration with Epic has impacted day-to-day operations and eased the delivery of patient information to outside healthcare providers.

By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

There has been a lot of talk in Health IT circles about process automation, especially using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to accelerate tasks and bring new efficiencies to hospital operations. These appear to be demonstrating real ROI and are beginning to make a dent in costs. In this post, Dr. Tippett discusses what is driving these advancements.