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Aneesh Chopra to healthcare innovators: Embrace early adopters of value-based care
In a Q&A, the former U.S. chief technology officer offered his advice to health IT innovators and discussed the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors. Aneesh Chopra, who previously served as Virginia’s secretary of technology, was tapped as the first chief technology officer of the United States in 2009. He held the position until 2012, but he hasn’t slowed down since then. [...]
CareJourney President on DrChrono podcast
Listen to Oleg Koujikov interview with Aneesh Chopra on DrChrono podcast, as they discuss Aneesh's rich background in health and public policy, and talking in-depth about Meaningful Use standards, MACRA and MIPS. They also talk about hot topics for the modern day EHR, like what are FHIR standards and why [...]
CareJourney Leadership Named Washingtonian “Tech Titans”
There was a time when Washington’s tech sector was dominated by three big names—MicroStrategy, LivingSocial, Blackboard. But as those companies split apart or morphed into something other than the juggernauts they once were, they gave way to firms with names like Cofense, EverFi, EdgeConneX—hopeful, hip, made-up words that suggest something fresh and new on the scene. [...]
America’s Physician Groups Launches New Task Force Aimed at Developing Future Advanced Alternative Payment Models
WASHINGTON, DC — America’s Physician Groups (APG) announced today the formation of its Risk Evolution Task Force, a learning collaborative dedicated to accelerating the volume to value movement and supporting the development of the next iteration of the Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). Both APG and Task Force members [...]
Aneesh Chopra on the future of FHIR: It’s starting to come together
Aneesh Chopra on the future of FHIR: It's starting to come together August 02, 2017 | External blog
Here’s what needs to happen for digital health care information-sharing to actually become a successful reality.
March 15, 2018 | External blog
Stanford Whitepaper: The Future of Electronic Health Records
Ten years ago, one doctor in 10 kept digital records on their patients. The other 90 percent made notes on paper and stored them in manila folders on shelves and in filing cabinets. Paper records had some obvious disadvantages. They took up space, they were difficult to share with other [...]
2017 ACO Results: A Summary of What Mattered Most
By Ben Bigelow Last week, CMS published the 2017 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). It comes on the heels of a new proposed rule from CMS that is meant to drive more accountable care organizations (ACOs) to take on downside risk, something few ACOs [...]
The new MSSP rule: the questions we should be asking
By Abbas Bader As most of you are already aware, CMS released a rule proposing changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program earlier this month. By now, you have probably read several summaries of the key provisions of the rule, if not the full 607 pages of the rule itself. [...]
Blue Button 2.0: A convening of tech leaders, CMS and the White House
By Edward Yurcisin As our President, Aneesh Chopra, often notes, there appears to be a “generational consensus” from leaders in Washington seeking to tap the expertise of the American people to solve big problems. This is exactly what happened on Monday August 13thwhen the White House Office of American Innovation [...]
CareJourney President sits down for an Interview with Humana CEO
Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney, recently did a video interview with Bruce Broussard, CEO of Humana. They spoke on the importance of fostering innovation, the history behind the digitization of healthcare data and what is on the horizon for healthcare as it relates to interoperability, new technologies and how companies [...]
Is Someone Stealing Your Health Data?
In 2017, Facebook held a widely reported health summit for pharmaceutical companies to propose ways that user “likes” and demographic information could be enlisted to better target drug ads. After Facebook was outed in the recent scandal, CNBC reported that the company was looking into selling user information to hospitals and medical institutions, [...]