Machine learning is the new “plastics” and four more HIMSS17 observations
Assume every EHR company will have a curated app store and sandbox for developer education/pilot testing within a year.
How BIDMC manages the good and bad of social media
There is risk associated with the use of social media because any content posted can reflect unfavorably on the physician as well as on the hospital.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Get ready for exponential growth in telemedicine in 2017
As hospitals expand to serve patients at the national and international level, as payment models require more home care/wellness care and as consumers demand the same kind of convenience from healthcare that they get from other industries, telemedicine will expand and mature.
Here’s why Apple HealthKit, CareKit stand to have a big impact on healthcare
Once the Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture is in the HealthKit database, enabling an app to transmit it is easy.
No, there is not any ‘snake oil’ on the road ahead in digital health
Let’s take a brief look at the history of national healthcare IT efforts from 2004-2016 to understand how we’ve achieved exactly the results we designed.
MACRA: Where do we go from here?
Focusing on 3 outcomes per specialty which are easily measurable, while radically focusing certification on a few key interoperability transactions is likely to be acceptable to provider and developer stakeholders. Will it satisfy CMS goals for MACRA?
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
So, what’s really in the MACRA rule from an IT perspective?
This may sound cynical, but there are probably only two rational choices for clinicians going forward: become a salaried employee delivering clinical care or become a hospital-based clinician exempted from the madness.
Might blockchain technology aid health information exchange?
I immediately thought of the challenge we have turning silos of medical information into a linked, complete, accurate, secure, lifetime medical record.
At HIMSS16 buzzwords are dead. It’s about innovating at all costs
This year, the buzzwords were replaced by one overarching concept - providers and vendors must innovate or die.
31 reasons to rethink and find a new path on Meaningful Use
Given the recent comments of CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt at the J.P. Morgan Annual Health Care Conference, we remain optimistic.
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Customer requirements rather than regulatory compliance will accelerate innovation
ONC recently released the 2016 Standards Advisory. I think this document is more important than Meaningful Use or Certification in accelerating interoperability.
2016 predictions in health IT: Population health and the healthcare CIO are redefined
And no, Watson, will not replace clinicians.
Healthcare information security: A problem all in its own
Although ICD10 and Meaningful Use work may be diminished in 2016, security work is likely to increase. As I’ve told the Board, security is a process, not a project. You’ll get better and better but will never be done.
First impressions of Interoperability Roadmap, Meaningful Use Final Rules
The final rules are not substantially different than the proposed rules, but the thresholds have been reduced.
What are the biggest CIO challenges and how can we surmount them?
For CIOs, it was really important to be an informatics expert to translate business owner workflow into application automation.