American Well

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

According to the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism (IHC) , over the next few years between 35 and 75 million Americans will access employee benefits through private exchanges. So it was fitting that IHC convened more than 300 employers, brokers, wellness companies, and insurers last week in Dallas for two days of collaborative discussion around the private exchange market.

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ACA Times

MARCH 3, 2016

For many employers, this will be the first year of reporting health coverage to the IRS for its employees. Under the Affordable Care Act, applicable large employers (ALE) with 50 or more full-time employees and/or equivalents must report this information for the 2015 tax year. Traditionally, such documentation holds the same deadlines as W-2 reporting.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2016

Rene asked for an outline of Security topics for FHIR for an upcoming tutorial he is giving. The easy answer is go read all my blog articles under the #FHIR topic The second easy answer is to point at the FHIR security pages. I find it interesting is that I answered this same question back in January 2013. I didn't notice this until after I completed the list below and was confirming I hit all my blog articles.

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American Well

MARCH 2, 2016

Over the weekend, employees from teams across American Well boarded planes headed to Vegas, ready to take HIMSS by storm! Our fabulous events planner, Liz Kelliher, flew in early to set up the American Well booth, #2154. Doesn’t it look great? On Monday, Katie Ruigh, our VP of Product, was interviewed about our newest product release, AW9 by Joe Lavelle, with intrepidNow.

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American Well

MARCH 2, 2016

Over the weekend, employees from teams across American Well boarded planes headed to Vegas, ready to take HIMSS by storm! Our fabulous events planner, Liz Kelliher, flew in early to set up the American Well booth, #2154. Doesn’t it look great? On Monday, Katie Ruigh, our VP of Product, was interviewed about our newest product release, AW9 by Joe Lavelle, with intrepidNow.

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ACA Times

MARCH 4, 2016

Your 2015 tax documents will include a 1095 form (A, B, and/or C) detailing your health coverage for the year. Form 1095-B is used to report health care coverage for those who received minimal essential coverage and no shared responsibility payment for one or more months of the reporting year. Form 1095-C is for those who are full-time employees for one or more months of the reporting year of an. applicable large employer (ALE) and receive health care coverage accordingly.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 2, 2016

There are three efforts going on right now to develop a Privacy Consent systems. It might seem that three efforts are two too many, but I don’t think so. It might seem that three efforts are thus in competition, but that is also not the case. These three efforts are focused on different parts of the Privacy Consent space, the proverbial ‘elephant’. Let me explain why all three exist, and why that is not a problem.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

There is a general misunderstanding that the BPPC (profile of CDA for capturing patient privacy consent) profile is only useful for XDS (document based Health Information Exchange) and XCA (Federation of document based Health Information Exchanges of various types) environments. The reality is that it is most valuable when used in XDS and XCA; but it has an important role to play in push models like XDR profile and XDM (publication on removable media and zip based packages) profile.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Security is a Risk domain, with the sub-domains of risk being risks to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Lately the failures have been in the sub-domain of Availability. First it was the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in LA. Their data got encrypted by malware and held hostage to a $17,000 ransom. Now it is Lukas Hospital in Germany.

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