Over a decade after ‘Meaningful Use’ – a program that was supposed to improve quality at the point of patient care – clinicians are still struggling to do their jobs. But is technology becoming the problem? Although the transition to electronic health records (EHR) was meant to make healthcare faster and safer, accessing it (efficiently) has proven to be a major obstacle.

Six months ago, more than 5.1 million healthcare records were breached in a single month. As shocking as that number seems, it wasn’t much more significant than the 12-month average of almost 4 million. Not surprisingly, healthcare organizations have turned to cyber insurance to protect themselves from the enormous cost and liabilities associated with such attacks.

In New Medicare Card is just like other big changes CMS has made, right?, the scale of the change presented by MACRA’s New Medicare Card initiative was compared to other recent changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented. These included the introduction of the Medicare Part D program, and the rollout of the Medicaid expansion and The Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2014.