Interoperability

Healthcare IT gets a shoutout on Mr. Robot

June 14, 2016

  On the way back from my recent overseas adventures, I was lucky enough to binge watch the…

Why our healthcare IT landscape looks like ancient China

May 16, 2016

The thing that healthcare IT and ancient China have most in common? Most people in the United States…

Interoperability as a service and incentives

April 30, 2016

  I use the word incentives a lot, partly because I’m married to an economics professor, and partly…

Beyond Meaningful Use: Will EHR vendors be able to meet providers’ evolving needs?

January 27, 2016

After a long couple of weeks on the road, I sat down in my window seat and closed…

Why the world needs a new kind of interface engine

November 23, 2015

Interoperability is on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the Health IT space, and every time it…

5 quick lessons in integration

November 9, 2015

  Many of you reading this are uneasy about blood (stop reading if you’re about to pass out),…

I own my health data

November 1, 2015

  It’s a familiar story. We sit in waiting rooms filling out the same information on clip boards.

Why you shouldn’t do EHR integration

October 15, 2015

EHR integration can improve a user’s workflow while eliminating errors caused by data entry. And the more deeply…

Repairing the market for health tech

August 23, 2015

  I’m currently running four email apps on my iPhone. I’ll probably delete a couple of them as…

New discoveries in health IT diagnoses

March 31, 2015

  Over the past decade, we’ve spent billions to digitize healthcare. Health IT was to bring us the…

Why disrupt healthcare?

January 6, 2015

In healthcare, about ⅓ of each dollar spent doesn’t improve health. That’s around $750 billion dollars of waste per…