Direct Project will be required in the next version of Meaningful Use
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that the Direct Project would be required in stage 2 of Meaningful Use. As usual the outside world knew almost...
View ArticleThe Direct Project in action
The Direct Project is all over HIMSS12, and really all over the country now. But it still carries controversy. When I found out that one of the Houston Health Information Exchange efforts had...
View ArticleParts of healthcare are moving to the cloud
Healthcare providers are increasingly required to do more with less. Regulations, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, recovery audit contractor (RAC) audits and decreasing revenues are motivating providers to...
View ArticleLeft and right and wrong
Sometimes I find a picture or a blog post that leaps off the screen at me and says “your readers must see this as it applies to health IT.” Normal Modes, a solid UX company based in Houston, sends me...
View ArticleTop Stories: June 11-15, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. A reduced but important future for desktop computing Josh Marinacci says most people will rely on mobile devices to handle...
View ArticleThe state of Health Information Exchange in Massachusetts
I recently attended the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s (MHDC) conference on Health Information Exchange (HIE), modestly titled “The Key to Integration and Accountability.” Although I’m a health...
View ArticleTop Stories: June 18-22, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. Copyright and “intellectual disobedience” “Sita Sings the Blues” creator Nina Paley explains her intellectual disobedience...
View ArticleSolving the Wanamaker problem for health care
By Tim O’Reilly, Julie Steele, Mike Loukides and Colin Hill “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher, early Facebook employee “Work on...
View ArticleBalancing health privacy with innovation will rely on improving informed consent
Society is now faced with how to balance the privacy of the individual patient with the immense social good that could come through great health data sharing. Making health data more open and fluid...
View ArticleGrowth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable
This week has been teaming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second...
View ArticleGrowth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable
This week has been teeming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second...
View ArticlePatients matter most, but technology matters a lot
Computing practices that used to be religated to experimental outposts are now taking up residence at the center of the health care field. From natural language processing to machine learning to...
View ArticleWhere are the chances for change in health care – top-down or bottom-up?
Everyone seems to agree that health care is the next big industry waiting to be disrupted. But who will force that change on a massive system full of conservative players? Three possibilities present...
View ArticleFinding the Meaning in “Meaningful Use”
Ever wonder what the heck “meaningful use” really means? By now, you’ve probably heard it come up in discussions of healthcare data. You might even know that it specifically pertains to electronic...
View ArticleLeft and right and wrong
Sometimes I find a picture or a blog post that leaps off the screen at me and says “your readers must see this as it applies to health IT.” Normal Modes, a solid UX company based in Houston, sends me...
View ArticleCommodity data analytics for health care
Analytics are expensive and labor intensive; we need them to be routine and ubiquitous. I complained earlier this year that analytics are hard for health care providers to muster because there’s a...
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