This week, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced a sweeping new AI-driven data platform designed to unify massive datasets across Medicare, Medicaid, NIH research, state registries, and national claims. It’s one of the most ambitious attempts yet to merge siloed health information and use artificial intelligence to accelerate research, spot trends faster,…
Healthcare is moving faster than anyone can keep up — new systems, new portals, new rules, new fees, new “partnerships.” All of these innovations sound great, yet somehow they don’t work for real patients or providers. And systems still don’t talk to each other. Meanwhile, everyone is left stitching together fragments of a story that…
Healthcare’s financial squeeze is tightening — and it’s hitting specialists first. This week, CMS confirmed that reimbursement for many specialty services will drop by roughly 2.5% in 2026. That might sound small, but for surgeons, cardiologists, oncologists, and other specialists already running on razor-thin margins, it’s a seismic shift. Specialists are warning of reduced access,…
Each year, healthcare leaders gather at events like HLTHUSA to discuss the future of care. The stages shine with optimism. The extraordinary booths overflow with AI demos and digital health platforms. The speakers are all top-notch and have discussions that are always “transformative.” But when the lights fade, and everyone returns home to their families, the…
TEFCA, short for the “Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement,” was established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) under the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. Initial drafts for the access and exchange of health information, were released in 2018 and 2019. TEFCA’s goal is to reduce the barriers for sharing…
MedKaz Reimagines How Providers Can Share Their Patient Records, Opening the Way to Unimagined Healthcare Improvements, Savings, and Provider Profits. The traditional method of patient record sharing, called “interoperability,” aims to connect individual provider EHR systems “on the fly,” via networks, enabling seamless record exchange. The issue is the extensive, costly infrastructures needed, including patient…
In prior articles we’ve discussed how you can use MedKaz® to streamline your workflow, enjoy interoperability, deliver better, coordinated, lower-cost care and reduce burnout. (See: We Can Enjoy Interoperability Today!) Now, let’s flip the coin and look at another critically important MedKaz® benefit— how it generates new profits for you and delivers an extraordinary ROI.…
One of the greatest challenges for hospital and clinic administrators is to reduce costs while their providers strive to deliver better care to their patients. This can be difficult, but we have a simple-but-powerful solution. It’s called MedKaz®, and it can make both your job and your doctors’ jobs a lot easier. What is MedKaz®?…