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 […]
Author: Ron Urwongse
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 […]