How to design financial incentives so that they work to create physician alignment.

Key takeaways, observations and insights from the CV Transforum Spring’17 conference are shared.

Many physicians are finding their days consumed with the administrative burdens required to comply with the massive changes brought about by health care reform efforts and dysfunctional EHRs.

Larry offers a summary of the Cardiology Advocacy Alliance’s meeting with members of Congress, the Senate and the White House last week. They went to learn where officials stand on key advocacy areas, educate them on the issues facing the CV community and offer recommendations for improving existing legislation and federal policy.

 Should patients have greater access to EHR and provider notes? Risks and challenges aside, Larry believes it can build trust and lead to more motivated patients.

Hospitals should take an acute interest in MACRA for one obvious reason: they are tied to the fate of their physicians, whether they like it or not.