As the nation monitors the back and forth between the FBI and Apple over unlocking the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, health IT professionals face their own major security and privacy challenges.
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Putting Interoperability on FHIR
This lack of interoperability leads to incorrect diagnoses, ineffective therapeutic plans, and unnecessary and costly duplicate testing.
Continue readingPredicting the Future: What to Look for in 2016
The role of a prognosticator is to accurately predict the future. We will see how well I have done when December rolls around.
Continue readingAccurately Predicting the Future
While healthcare information technology bombards clinicians with ever increasing patient data, it generally fails to offer clinicians tools and solutions that help them utilize this data effectively.
Continue readingOur Tower of Babel
Although this explains well why communication is so difficult among people from different countries, it fails to address the inability of our various healthcare information technology (HIT) systems to exchange patient data seamlessly.
Continue readingCare Collaboration in a Value-Based World
Organizations that will survive under the new realities of ACA recognize the power of healthcare information technology (HIT) to assist them in reworking their business processes and clinical workflows to achieve the goal of high quality, affordable care.
Continue readingKeynote Adddress at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference
Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.
Continue readingHospital Computerization Not a Budget Saver, Concludes Study
The recent survey of over four thousand hospitals found no connection between computerization and reduced costs. In addition, increased computerization led to only small improvements in the quality of care.
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