By Justin Sims

HealthTech vendors gave a fairly muted response to the recent CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services RFI. This is the 3rd post in the series summarizing feedback of key industry constituents.

By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN

As staff shortages continue to impact healthcare facilities, the growing burden on each staff member and clinician ultimately leads to higher rates of burnout and lowers the overall quality of patient care. Burnout has become so high that the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on May 23, 2022, addressing the crisis.

By Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD

The world is full of workflows. At their most basic, workflows are procedures coupled with communication among groups of people. I cut my teeth at age 17 as a licensed pilot and have since learned that the archetype of well-honed workflows is U.S. airline aviation, where there have been zero passenger deaths in more than four years. How does this happen?

By Justin Sims

Healthcare Providers have also replied—loudly in some cases! Our analysis of the the recent CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services RFI continues with input from several healthcare groups. Our second post provides a summary of feedback from healthcare providers and their associations.

By Justin Sims

careMESH summarizes industry feedback on the CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services Request for Information (RFI), published in November 2022. The responses indicate overwhelming support for CMS’s attention to this significant industry challenge.  In the first post, we begin with comments from the Health Plans.

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 Justin Sims

OK, it’s a ridiculous title for a blog. But I think it paints a picture of the central issue of interoperability—because doctors can’t easily and digitally locate their peers, they have no easy means to contact them. True interoperability isn’t just about being able to find a patient record on another system, it’s about communication and collaboration across the care team.