Health IT – Senator’s blast ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap correctly, but for...
I blogged last month (Health IT Roadmap for Industry Interoperability – where is the data quality?) that the Office of the National Coordinator of Heath IT (ONC) and its recently published nationwide...
View ArticleHealthcare Industry Awash with Integration but little Meaningful Data
I had a wry smile on my face when I read this article today: Data Integration Continues to Bedevil Healthcare Industry. I felt I knew where the article was coming from and I only had to get to the...
View ArticleLooking at Health IT: when integration isn’t enough
I really liked the article by the Fred Bazzoli, editor in chief at Health Data Management. The article, titled “Why EHR implementation is only half the battle“, explains succinctly that good adoption...
View ArticleWhat is Wrong with Interoperability (in healthcare)?
I have to put the tired old record on….so here we go…. Interoperability (we need to argue what we mean by this term) cannot work effectively if organizations only focus on data standards; they need to...
View ArticleHealthcare Industry in the US Struggles to Share Data
Despite the mandates, despite the efforts and good well and intentions, it seems sharing data remains a difficult task in healthcare. My techtarget email today included this headline: Data sharing...
View ArticleHealthIT Continues March toward Interoperability – Perhaps
I saw an interesting article that looked at the issues in healthcare IT as it wrestles with interoperability. The article, HIT Think Why quality measurement raises the stakes for true...
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Interoperability is Not A Problem for Technology – It is A Problem for Data...
Not to invite criticism, and as an honest attempt to improve understanding, I wanted to call out what I would argue is a weakness or gap in understanding. I saw this article: HIT Think Three rising...
View ArticleThe Search for the Elixir of Interoperability Reaches IoT Land
I saw with some interest an article today: New European consortium to improve IoT security, interoperability. I have to say up front that I don’t cover Internet of Things, nor do I cover security. I...
View ArticleMethods for Valuing Data
Diane Coyle‘a new paper, The Value of Data, is most interesting. The paper’s findings and recommendations seem somewhat consistent, and are focused on public policy implications for private markets,...
View ArticleEU Data Strategy: Helping Themselves
I read the EU Data Strategy some weeks ago. The document was made available for public comment. I posted to my blog some comments and challenges I felt it contained back in March: The Value of Data....
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