The Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule has wide-ranging implications for payers, providers, and patients. Read on to learn more about its highly-anticipated provisions. As part of its push to encourage interoperability and make health information more readily available across entities, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Interoperability and Prior Authorization...Read More

Just like fingerprints, everyone has a unique tongue print. Has a certain scent in the air ever reminded you of a memory or occasion, or sometimes even a person? Your nose can remember 50,000 scents! Your brain often associates those scents with events and people. Feeling foggy in the afternoon? Be sure and stay hydrated....Read More

Although available, telehealth didn’t become commonplace until the throes of the pandemic. Technology, availability, payment codes, and other solutions were rapidly implemented. Now that the PHE is officially over, where does that leave HIPAA compliant telehealth? Telehealth reduced infection risk, expanded critical access to care for all types of communities, and addressed capacity challenges. The...Read More

Value-based care is a health care delivery model that pays providers based on the health outcomes of their patients and the quality of services rendered, rather than the number of services they provide. Value-based care (VBC) struts onto the healthcare scene as a trendsetter, determined to revolutionize the way we approach patient well-being, chronic diseases,...Read More

While healthcare has been evolving for centuries, there has been no accelerator quite as fast as the addition of health technology. Let’s take a little journey through time to review history – and maybe even peer into the future a bit. Medical discoveries such as the stethoscope, autoclave, human genome project, and vaccines have had...Read More

Healthcare providers should be keeping their eyes on a new piece of bipartisan legislation seeking to offer workers stand-alone telehealth benefits – much in the same way that vision and dental plans are offered. We all remember how quickly telehealth became mainstream as the pandemic ramped up in 2020 – spurred on by both need...Read More

A lot of us complained about the bi-yearly time change, but will the alternative truly be better for us? While daylight savings time does give us more daylight hours, it also can disrupt our sleep schedule and lead to various health issues. Altering the body’s circadian rhythms by even an hour can change the delicate...Read More

Healthcare organizations should be actively working on their interoperability, and federal officials are pushing FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) as the best way to ensure that EHR systems can share data. The military has now deployed a single EHR system, paving the way for interoperability in the Department of Defense, using the FHIR data standard....Read More

With AI getting more intelligent each year, as evidenced by the recent news about ChatGPT passing the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, many wonder what role AI and healthcare will have in the future. At this point, and with the technology available, it is safe to say that they can hold a valuable role in increasing...Read More

Fresh from the exciting 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, FormDr is excited about all of the new and innovative healthcare technology shown at the largest tech convention in the world. One of the primary topics of the convention was cybersecurity, and we were happy to see companies putting user data security as...Read More