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.

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.

By Scott Glasrud

There is an old saying that “it takes a village to raise a child.” I have often thought of this analogy while contemplating the infancy and now adolescence of value-based care. As with any healthcare innovation, value-based care created quite a phenomenon when introduced fifteen years ago. In today’s vernacular, “it went viral.”

By Ryan Slattery

One of the best recommendations I received early in my career was to read Differentiate or Die: Survival in the Era of Killer Competition by Jack Trout. To be successful, companies must somehow stand out from the crowd. Hypergrowth companies find a way to package, position, and communicate with their target audience to beat the competition.

By Catherine Thomas

Every chance I get, I ask questions of our hospital customers. How much time do your doctors spend on this? How many clicks does it take to send a discharge? How many times per day do you do that? Because what matters is that careMESH solutions take the “toil” of repetitive tasks away.

By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

From a Health IT standpoint, 2020 was off to a roaring start with hospitals already underway meeting Promoting Interoperability requirements. Hospital IT leadership was also anticipating the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, which had been in the works for well over a year and was set to be finalized in March.

By Edward Marx

In 1995, I landed my first role in healthcare technology as the director of physician information systems….Our smallish stand-alone hospital was in the fight for its life against the cross-town rival, who just happened to be part of a well-capitalized mega system. The Board agreed to an additional $1M in capital for IT to deploy a strategy to increase the hospital’s ability to enhance physician relationships via technology.

By Justin Sims

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold, CMS published the Interoperability and Patient Access Rule. This regulation requires hospitals to send admission and discharge information to a patient’s PCP and other post-acute care providers. It is clear this is important to CMS.