Health Information Exchanges: The Next Hurdle
How can your practice obtain critical patient data from hospitals and why is Maryland better prepared than many states to allow disparate EHR systems to ‘talk’ to each other even after HITECH Act funds...
View ArticleAccountable Care Expands With or Without an ACO
Is an ACO for you? As the number of ACOs in Maryland and the U.S. grows, they are expanding to non-Medicare populations. At the same time, some providers are opting for accountable care without the...
View ArticleMeaningful Use Stage 2 – Are You Ready?
Providers who have been on the leading edge can attest for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use in 2014. However, as incentives diminish, Maryland Physician Magazine explores what attestation may entail and...
View ArticlemHealth Harnesses Care Improvements
What’s more impressive than the explosion in mobile devices is that mHealth is moving beyond gimmicky devices and interesting apps to make an impact on health and healthcare delivery. Free membership...
View ArticleHow Will the Physician Payments Sunshine Act Impact You?
Starting September 2014, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act will provide new info about physician payments from biopharma and medical tech companies. Learn what will be reported and how to review the...
View ArticlePCMHs and ACOs: Are They Working?
How effective are Patient Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations? Maryland experts describe how both models are improving care and why the new Maryland Medicare waiver may provide an...
View ArticleIs Private Practice Dead?
Don’t want to be employed by a health system or government agency, but fear that private practice is no longer viable? Learn new alternatives, from large single-specialty ‘mega’ groups to models...
View ArticleThe Impact of Insurance Changes on Patients and Physicians
U.S. healthcare insurance involves a byzantine set of policies and structures. Decades of rising costs have resulted in patients paying a higher share out of their own pockets. Our experts examine the...
View ArticleWearables: Beyond Fitness Tracking
Wearable fitness devices have been on the market for over a decade, but only recently have they begun expanding into exciting health uses beyond tracking fitness. The 2014 mHealth Summit in National...
View ArticleMoving Toward Interoperability
Healthcare is perennially behind other industries in information technology. With the early stages of electronic data behind us, our experts discuss the challenges of connecting disparate systems and...
View ArticleKeeping Populations Healthier
As CMS and other payers push providers to shift from fee-for-service to population-health based payments, physicians are seeking models that work in this new environment. A number of innovative...
View ArticleLessons on the Road to Entrepreneurship
A growing number of doctors are becoming entrepreneurs – either while keeping their ‘day job’ or moving away from treating patients. Three physicians share their stories – including launching a...
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The Rise of Direct Primary Care
By Linda Harder Tired of fee-for-service medicine but not interested in the concierge model? Today there’s a new option that may embrace the best of outpatient/primary care from both the patient and...
View ArticleAMA Launches Silicon Valley Integrated Innovation Company, Health2047
Opens Opportunities for Physicians to Engage in the Innovation of Products That Improve the Delivery of Care to Patients Building on its historic commitment to advance the practice of medicine and...
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Connected Health and the Internet of Things
By Linda Harder For the past three years, Chesapeake Physician has attended the HIMSS mHealth Conference in Washington, DC, to report on the latest trends in healthcare mobile technology. This year,...
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Optimizing for an Independent Practice
Being employed is not appealing to many physicians, but remaining and even thriving in independent practice today is challenging. Optimizing practice operations, leveraging technology and effective...
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Improving Care Through Telemedicine
By Linda Harder While barriers to telemedicine still exist, more widespread reimbursement, less onerous credentialing requirements and greater patient and provider acceptance is fueling the growth of...
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