Health equity and languages spoken
The Need for Linguistically-Appropriate Services On April 20, 2022, CMS released an action plan that establishes health equity as a ‘first pillar’
Author: Ron Urwongse
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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