Culture does not evolve to accommodate law; typically, the opposite occurs. Consider Prohibition in the United States: popular movements grew and escalated until they were able to achieve the passage of a Constitutional amendment—a rarity in the history of the country. Then, ...
Women in Health IT Retreat: #TheBestDinnerPartyEver!
After attending the energetic and bustling HIMSS Conference last year, Max Stroud wondered if there could be a better way to connect with like-minded folks for some "real, in-depth conversations. Not just networking and hey, here’s my card ... but what if we got together in the ...
Competing on outcomes in digital health
In 2016, digital health is straddling two paradigms as it sells technology from tomorrow to institutions from yesterday. This split-leg stance seems awkward (and it is) but it’s actually just our industry attempting to take a big step forward. Over the last decade, we’ve been ...
Obamacare in Gartner’s ‘trough of disillusionment’
The consulting firm Gartner has a nifty chart they use for measuring the trajectory of new technologies over the course of their evolution. Many are already familiar with Gartner’s trademark chart – called The Hype Cycle – and it’s become a kind of de-facto standard in many ...
As health IT extends, Fog Computing offers the enterprise to edge users
As technology advancements take place in healthcare, cloud computing is not the solution that it was once expected by the enterprise and service providers. We have gained a realistic expectation of the system and some real concerns with migrating to the cloud. The cloud system is ...
Why Ireland has a National Patient Identifier (and we don’t)
On the one-hand, I’m excited by the CHIME-sponsored National Patient ID Challenge. According to the latest release there are “nearly 370 innovators from 40 countries” that have registered for the Final Innovation Round. The challenge itself is crystal clear: “Ensure 100% accuracy ...
Security basics for healthcare CIOs
The world has changed, and the environment in which we live in is threatened. IT professionals and leaders ought to discover creative ways to leverage their resources and better defend against cyber attacks. It is a tough call to balance the cost of IT security operations against ...
Success of value-based care relies too much on physicians
That’s the message built-in to most contemporary policy, initiatives, and programs, and the source of much professional atrophy and distress among caregivers. No matter the end goal – increase EHR adoption, shift to quality metrics from volume, record sharing and ...
Health IT leader and patient quantifies the waste of time in healthcare
"I aspire to change the world and be a legend in my own time. Dr. Seuss' 'Oh the Places You'll Go' is my life primer. Winston Churchill quotes inspire me. You (probably) inspire me." – Jess Jacobs Maybe Jess Jacobs will inspire you – to innovate the patient experience. In 2013, ...
Burning rubber on the road to healthcare consumerism
In the journey of health care reform, we’ve arrived at a juncture where having access and accessibility remain two distinct things. Nearly 13 million Americans now have access to state or federal insurance exchanges – but we know that having insurance coverage is no guarantee of ...
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