Interoperability
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I was lucky to catch the ever insightful Dr. Atul Butte (The Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco and TEDxSF Presenter ) following his presentation at Health Datapalooza. He had just come off stage from his presentation: Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, […]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Lisa Simpson, the President and CEO of Academy Health who are the host organization for Health Datapalooza We had some fun with our memes from the Simpsons We discuss the unique nature of the conference that brings together the public and private sector to use data to transform […]
Saving Healthcare Quality This week I am talking to Fred Trotter (@fredtrotter), CTO CareSet Systems – the first commercial Medicare Data company. Fred has a long and fascinating background that unlike many healthcare Cybersecurity experts started in the security field and transitioned to healthcare and healthcare data. You can read his musings on Hacking Healthcare […]
The Bluebutton Innovator This week I am talking to Mark Scrimshire (@eKiveMark) a fellow Walking Gallery member and Entrepreneur in Residence at NewWave and on assignment as Medicare Blue Button 2.0 Innovator at CMS where he is designing and implementing the new API to enable 53 million Medicare Beneficiaries to share their claims information with the […]
Getting to Nationwide Interoperability Unfortunately, the existing healthcare system incentives behavior that is in opposition to the goal of scalable, nationwide, vendor-neutral interoperability. Our model has multiple groups who have a vested interest in the control and ownership of data (for example Payors, Providers, Patients). Each has their own economic and commercial drivers and in […]
Bryan Vartabedian (Doctor_V) – Incremental Steps to Success with Electronic Health Records This week I am excited to be talking to one of the early trailblazers in social media who sits at the intersection between healthcare and technology Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Physician Leader at Texas Children’s Hospital and @Doctor_V on twitter. Despite being a physician raised […]
Incremental Interoperability Can you imagine a sports team that was unable to share? Sharing is Caring and can only be done with open and easy access that includes the clinical team, patients, and their family. Translational Medicine Conference I recently attended the innovative 8th Annual Translational Medicine Conference this past week in Derry/Londonderry Northern Ireland […]
What will it take to move our healthcare system to a truly patient-centered system? We know based on multiple data points that engaged patients have a big impact on the successful outcome of treatment. Leonard Kish cited the phrase back in 2012 Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century Referencing a 2009 Kaiser […]
The move to value-based payments will be the most significant trend of 2016, because it will force both caregivers and health plans to radically change the way they think and act. Population health, which emphasizes identifying risk and gaps in care, and filling those gaps, will be an existential capability for hospitals, physicians and health […]
Its an exciting time to be in healthcare and medicine – technology is bringing so much innovation and opportunity to improve the delivery, quality and reduce the cost of healthcare. Much remains to be done At our our recent DellWorld conference we captured insights into this exciting future As Dr. Jai Menon vice president and chief research […]
This piece by Aaron Carroll detailing his personal experiences with the healthcare system for what should be an easy and simple activity represents the frustration and challenges everyone faces on a daily basis including myself I have the exactly the same challenges with renewal of what is a long standing formulation I know this is […]
Review of the first Day of HIMSS15 and the Physician IT Symposium
Video interview wiht John Lynne (@Techguy and @EHRandHIT) on topics ranging from EHR Upcoding, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Interoperability, EHR Consolidation, and ACOs (originally posted here): Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
