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 Justin Sims

There are about 800K physicians in the United States and many data sources that contain information about each one: from specialties, to office locations and hospital affiliations, to contact information. While a physician’s specialties rarely change, contact information does—and it changes frequently.

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.

By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

In a recent article by Kim Huynh and Nazim Dzabic, the authors were spot on to say that changes are needed to empower patients with their health data. But empowering patients with data appropriate for them, and leveraging patients to enable interoperability between and among providers are two very different things.

By Peter S. Tippett

The past several weeks have driven home how reliant we are on our complex healthcare system. As a doctor, I have long known this in my gut, but when the system is taxed to the extreme, we all begin to see the fragility of this critical industry.

By Catherine Thomas

Early last week, on what was to be the first day of the HIMSS20 conference in Orlando, CMS published the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. careMESH has published an Advisory Note to help guide hospitals about the rule and other details in considering how they will meet the requirements for Patient Event Notifications.