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David, It sounds like we agree for the most part. The only way we get to value based care as more than a cute phrase is by figuring all of these things out. Can we get CMS to move away from "quality reporting"? Can we ...

When various health agencies started publishing raw mortality statistics for CV Surgeon's suddenly it was difficult to get patient's indicated bypass operations if it was close to the end of the reporting year, as the surgeon's began to obsess about their ...

Larry, Well argued! I agree that more data (metrics) and more transparency are critical for improving healthcare quality, and we should not "hide behind" risk adjustment. All I'm saying is that the details of how the data is collected, publicized, and ...

Dear Mental Health Informatics Enthusiasts, I am proud to announce that AMIA has officially accepted our proposal to run a mental health informatics workshop at AMIA's annual meeting in San Francisco this year! This is a very collaborative ideation workshop ...

This is very interesting and will only become more interesting. In my opinion, these apps will succeed if they can both maintain user engagement (either just with patients or with patients and therapists), AND demonstrate economic value to some sort of ...