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Move health data forward challenge: Giving patients control

May 19, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Move 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 transformation," according to Sumit Nagpal, CEO of LumiraDx. He says that if ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards, Integration Insights, Interview, Patient Engagement, PHR Tagged With: API, Caroline Coy, developers, health data, HEART WG, interoperability, Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, ONC, ONC Challenge, PGHD, RESTful API, Standards

Epic Hate

October 27, 2015 By Dan Munro 18 Comments

Epic Hate

The headline couldn't have been more focused and directed against a single EHR software vendor. It screamed in bold, capital letters ‒ EPIC FAIL ‒ but then for some reason, backpedaled with the subheading: Digitizing America's medical records was supposed to help patients and ...

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Filed Under: 2, EHR, EMR, Health care, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Integration Insights Tagged With: healthcare interoperability

Is Interoperability a Technical or Business Challenge in Healthcare? Part 2

July 14, 2015 By Dan Munro 4 Comments

Is Interoperability a Technical or Business Challenge in Healthcare? Part 2

Excerpt from Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro. Part 2 of 3. In Part 1 of this three-part series we saw how the world of packet-switching technology truncated the word "interoperability" to just "interop" and how that world successfully navigated many of the early technical ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Integration Insights

Is Interoperability A Technical or Business Challenge In Healthcare?

July 7, 2015 By Dan Munro 2 Comments

Excerpt from Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro. Part 1 of 3. The voices around healthcare interoperability are becoming louder, more frequent and more urgent ‒ which is a great thing. Recently the fires were stoked again by both Leonard Kish (here) and then even more urgently by ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT, Integration Insights Tagged With: Casino Healthcare

20 Questions for Health IT #6: Optionality vs Extensibility in Standards

September 9, 2014 By Health Standards Leave a Comment

20 Questions for Health IT #6: Optionality vs Extensibility in Standards

Question number 6 for our “20 Questions for Health IT” project. Please comment in the comments section or on twitter using the #20HIT tag. View the other questions and comments here.  Question from Greg Meyer, distinguished engineer at Cerner: Optionality vs Extensibility: What ...

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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