A lot has been written about WISeR since it launched January 15. Most of it is either CMS defending the design or advocacy groups calling for it to be killed. I wanted something different: a clear-eyed look at what the first quarter actually looked like on both sides of the portal — the six vendors running it, and the providers living with it.

Short report attached. ~5 min read.

The headline finding, if you only read one line: the AI isn't the bottleneck. The integration is. That has implications well beyond Medicare.

—Victor