It’s time to rethink ideologies of medical care that no longer make sense. The following may sound revolutionary, but are nonetheless true: Patients are the future leaders in medical care. Patients must and can make their own medical decisions after being informed. Patients can and must learn to discern useless from useful information. […]
Turning Patients into Health Care Consumers—For Economic Survival
If we want to help people take better charge of their health—both physically and financially—we should start by treating them as real consumers, instead of patients. While that may seem like a simple change in terminology, it is anything but. A Patient Is a Recipient of Services, Not the Actor Health care organizations […]
Roji Health Intelligence’s Roji Registry Earns ONC-Health IT Certification from Drummond Group LLC
Roji Health Intelligence has reached another milestone, enhancing Solutions to help providers achieve better outcomes and lower costs. Roji Registry has earned Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC-Health IT) 2015 Edition Health IT Module Certification via Drummond Group LLC, an Authorized Certification Body (ACB). See details here. Why ONC-Health […]
The Dirty Little Secret About Performance Measurement Data
“The data just hooks up.” That was an opening remark from a competitor applauding his company’s scoring system for physician quality. He went on to explain how this data produced reliable scores on quality. The idea that data hooks up and produces a true scoring system for quality is a fantasy. Not only […]