[Author: TERRY MAYTIN  |  VP, Market Development & Commercialization]     In the world of Healthcare IT, advanced innovations are compelling the care community to take action. Reduction in spend, decreased ED visits, and better outcomes are becoming a reality through the use of technology. In one heart...

[Author: GEORGE MARMO  |  Regional Sales Director] New Jersey has joined the growing list of states who are expanding reimbursement for telehealth services. On July 21, 2017, Governor Christie approved the bill authorizing healthcare practitioners to provide services through telemedicine, effective immediately. Practitioners can now provide healthcare to...

[Author:STEPHEN KEELER  |  VP, Payer & Provider Sales]  Have you ever realized that you missed something big? It's an awful, pit-in-the-stomach feeling. You make a sure bet, only to see too late that it was wrong, or at best nowhere near right. When I first graduated, the computer engineers who got jobs at places like Digital Equip. Corp. and Wang were...

[Author: TERRY MAYTIN  |  VP, Market Development & Commercialization]   Digital strategy is most effective when undertaken at the enterprise level with broad leadership support, placing the consumer at the center of enterprise-wide strategy -instead of the health system, provider, channel or technology. Reorienting organizations to “think digital”...

[Author:TERRY MAYTIN  |  VP, Market Development & Commercialization]  Rising complexity and challenges are everywhere across the entire healthcare landscape. Health transformation is well underway and accelerating. Consumerism and web/mobile adoption are at record levels. What is the role of digital strategy amidst all this change?The...

[Author:STEPHEN KEELER  |  VP, Payer & Provider Sales]  Today’s providers, who have no choice but to embrace value-based care, are providing their patients with digital health devices so they can track blood sugars, heart rate, weight fluctuations, etc. Are you keeping up with the needs of your patients?With a digital health platform in place, your...

[Author: TERRY MAYTIN  |  VP, Market Development & Commercialization] We are in the midst of an acronym revolution including ACA, MACRA, MIPs, CPC+, CCM, and APMs to name just a few (and that’s scratching the surface). Together they are leading the value-based charge, while also transforming the role of digital strategy. Healthcare...

[Author: TERRY MAYTIN  |  VP, Market Development & Commercialization] The U.S. healthcare system is rapidly transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care as part of massive and ongoing industry-wide transformation. Digital strategy is evolving to meet new challenges, help drive disruptive innovation, and better engage a large, growing audience...

[Author: STEPHEN KEELER  |  VP, Payer & Provider Sales]     The shift from fee-for-service to value-based payments isn’t easy. Still, there’s no avoiding the advance of MACRA and value-based payment models emerging from CMS and private payers. That’s why CMS introduced CPC+ - or the Comprehensive Primary Care program....

[Author: STEPHEN KEELER  |  VP, Payer & Provider Sales]     Approximately 117 million U.S. adults struggle with one or more chronic health conditions—and one in four have two or more chronic conditions to manage every single day, according to CMS. That’s why CMS kicked off Chronic Care Management (CCM) in January 2015,...