Mar 17, 2019
Primary PartnerCare ACO Independent Practice Association, Inc. (“Primary PartnerCare ACO”), a 100+ primary care physician accountable care organization participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Healthix, the country’s largest public Health Information Exchange (HIE), [...]
At the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care, world leaders and health experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) endorsed the Alma-Ata Declaration “to protect and promote the health [...]
Jul 12, 2017
In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Congress mandated that payment adjustments should be applied to Medicare eligible professionals that are not meaningful users of Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) Technology [...]
Feb 17, 2016
The Obama administration and health insurers took a step Tuesday toward standardizing and improving the measures that are intended to gauge the quality of healthcare but are widely criticized as too burdensome for providers and [...]
Jun 29, 2015
Is a good family doctor one who treats your knee pain and manages your recovery from heart surgery? Or is it one who refers you to an orthopedist and a cardiologist? Those are questions at the [...]