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Author: Ron Urwongse

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

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