Comagine Health Blog
Health care delivery systems in the United States, like many other institutions, have not yet realized equitable outcomes — or even equity — in the processes of delivery or payment of care, but for my entire career I’ve witnessed valiant efforts to those ends. Over the past three years, Comagine Health (as HealthInsight) has been the lead organization for a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to engage with the Indian Health Service (IHS) to improve health and health care for American Indian and Alaska Native people. The Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH) has been engaged with 24 CMS certified and IHS administered hospitals across seven states. We have incredible partners in three Quality…
In a presentation last year, I had to say what the mission of the newly formed Comagine Health (formerly HealthInsight and Qualis Health) was before our new board had finalized it. As the exact text was under development, I summarized that basically, they just want us to change the world. While I got a laugh from the audience, it turns out I wasn’t too far off.
Our board has since created our mission – Together with our partners, we work to improve health and create a better health…
As Comagine Health moves forward following our recent merger of HealthInsight and Qualis Health, we bring a variety of skills, talents and business lines together. How will we capitalize on the new capabilities and become an even stronger and more capable organization? That’s a question that’s just now coming into focus. One of Comagine Health’s more interesting and unique business lines is managing the state of Nevada’s only health information exchange, HealtHIE Nevada. HealtHIE Nevada is a…
Cars and I have a love-hate relationship — I love the convenience of getting where I need to go anytime I want to, but I hate them for the ever-increasing expenses involved in… more
Twenty years ago, psychologist Daniel J. Simons created the now-classic “gorilla experiment” video. When he asked viewers to count the number of times a group of people passed a… more
Change is in the air. Even as we formally launched our new company earlier this month, our Comagine Health team was hard at work on a fundamental reimagining of the work we do for… more
Data evaluations can be extremely motivating. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began reporting on the opioid epidemic, health care providers and the public were… more
The day is here! We’re officially launching the new company created by the merger between Qualis Health and HealthInsight. We’re excited. And as you learn more, we think you will… more
When we entered Conference Room 1 of the Federal Reserve building in Birmingham, Alabama, rows of brightly colored gift bags greeted us at our seats.
Inside was a copy of the… more
Diabetes Alert Day was March 26, and our team was busy working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health systems, health plans and community-based… more
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports on employment and labor information in more ways than you can imagine and is a goldmine of geekdom for human resources nerds… more
During the last week of January, over 3,000 people gathered in Baltimore for the 2019 CMS Quality Conference. Every year, CMS convenes its contractors and stakeholders to explore… more
It seems as if the kidneys are finally getting the national attention they deserve. As we celebrate Kidney Month in March and World Kidney Day March 14, it is a good time to… more