May 26, 2022June 6, 2023Data Insights The Importance of Health Plan Information and Identity Defacto Health has been reviewing health insurers’ Provider Directory APIs in terms of availability, issues, and use cases for almost a year
March 17, 2022June 6, 2023Data Insights Using Provider Directory APIs to assess provider network size When CMS issued its requirement for payers to publish Provider Directory APIs, it contemplated use cases such as in-network provider search and
January 20, 2022June 6, 2023Data Insights Analysis of top 50 payers’ Provider Directory APIs In our previous post, we reviewed aggregate statistics on payers publishing provider directory APIs in the first six months of enforcement of
January 18, 2022June 6, 2023Policy and Regulation Payer Compliance: Provider Directory APIs in the first six months since CMS Final Rule enforcement The CMS Final Rule on Interoperability and Patient Access requires payers to publish provider directory APIs and has been enforceable since July
December 19, 2021June 6, 2023Data at Work What indoor healthcare wayfinding taught me about the governance of practice location data With the convergence of payer and provider interoperability, there is growing interest in how data sourced directly from EHRs could support provider
December 19, 2021June 6, 2023Data at Work Epic partners with Mapquest: EHR and location awareness Last week, Epic announced it is partnering with Mapquest to ‘enable location services within its EHR system’. Three questions come to mind
November 28, 2021June 6, 2023Data Insights Prevalence of centralized appointment phone numbers in health plan provider directories This is the first of a series of posts analyzing payer-published provider directory data sets mandated by the CMS Final Rule. Defacto
October 16, 2021June 6, 2023Data at Work Hire healthcare data to do a job Applying Job-to-be-done Theory to Healthcare Data I believe that when a customer purchases a product, they are “hiring” that product to do