The Death of Interoperability: Is it Time for One Record?
We’ve invested $ billions upon $ billions in interoperability. It’s past time to ask, “Is it a lost cause?” Incentives insufficient to fix market dynamics? Don’t worry folks, Congress is on the job....
View ArticlePart 3: Is Interoperability A Technical or Business Challenge In Healthcare?
Excerpt from Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro. Part 3 of 3 In Part 2 of this series we saw how Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) were established by the National Highway Transportation and Safety...
View ArticleSMART on FHIR: Inter-app-ability
Recent research by peer60 shows that more than half of community hospitals are dissatisfied with their EHRs due to poor usability and a lack of functionality. Dissatisfaction is also high among...
View ArticleDon’t Gimme Just Damn Data
People don’t actually want their health data? You can’t judge demand for a bridge by the number of people swimming across #Tracer — Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) October 6, 2015 Dr. Mostashari’s...
View Article[#HITsm Chat 1.015.16] Interoperability, Views Around the Globe
Moderated by Dr. Saif Abed, Founding Partner–AbedGraham Health Strategies, UK Topic: Interoperability, Views Around the Globe Follow Dr. Saif Abed Participate on Twitter by tweeting at us & our...
View ArticleMove health data forward challenge: Giving patients control
Giving individuals control to share their health data is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. “Individual control of personal health data will ‘tear down the wall’ that’s blocking health care...
View Article[#HITsm chat 7.29.16] Using patient narrative to explore gaps in health data...
Moderated by M. Maxwell Stroud, MSW, CPHIMS, Lead Consultant, Galen Healthcare Solutions Topic: Using patient narrative to explore gaps in health data interoperability Follow MMaxwellStroud Tweet...
View ArticleWhat ‘skills’ can healthcare develop for Amazon Alexa?
Voice-tech: The talk of the 2016 holiday season For the 2014 holiday season, I made a list of useful new consumer health tech for this blog that included Amazon Echo, just introduced for $100 (with...
View ArticleData liquidity: Interoperability is the future of healthcare
Why interoperability is the future of healthcare “The common thread to satisfying consumers and enabling advanced data analytics and seamless care coordination is interoperability. Interoperability...
View ArticleWill web APIs and HL7 FHIR change our views on data interoperability?
Classic HL7 interfaces are being augmented by APIs and HL7 FHIR: Are you ready? The above tagline accompanied a LinkedIn ad for a webinar hosted by Corepoint Health, July 19 and 20. Watch the webinar...
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