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Interoperability 2018

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
January 2, 2018 Leave a Comment

Global access to data

Healthcare information interoperability has been in the news a lot in 2017. This fall the Acumen blog featured a 3-part series by Eddie Hedrick reviewing the interoperability landscape. Eddie’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Interoperability Tagged With: APIs, CDE, Cerner, Consumer-Directed Exchange, Dugan Maddux, Eddie Hedrick, Epic's Share Everywhere, FHIR, Geek doctor, Healthcare IT News, HIT, HL7, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, MU, ONCHIT

HIMSS 2017: Big Data, Healthcare IT and the Future of Patient Care

Acumen Staff
March 6, 2017 1 Comment

Big ideas from big data

When it’s big enough, an event itself can be Big Data. Bring together over 40,000 attendees and over 1,200 leading vendors and the topics presented and discussed serve to spell out the current trends … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big Data, Blog, Health IT Tagged With: Adrienne Boissy, Ahmad Sharif, AI, APIs, artificial intelligence, Big data, EHR, FHIR, Fresenius, healthcare IT, HealthGrid, HealthLoop, HIMSS, IBM, Kevin Mitnick, Kore.ai, machine learning, patient engagement, Precision Medicine, Sheetal Chaudhuri, SMART, value-based care, Watson

Web APIs: The Answer to Interoperability?

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
April 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Unlocking information sharing

This week marks the last week of tax season! Luckily, for me, filing taxes has always been a pretty simple task. I gather all of my necessary paperwork and within a matter of hours I am able to file … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Future of EHRs Tagged With: API, APIs, application programming interfaces, CCD, Certified EHRs, CMS, common clinical data set, Diana Strubler, EHR, EHR vendors, FHIR, HL7, ONC, P4P, patient data

We Aren’t There Yet: Health IT (HIT) Shortcomings in 2016

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
February 1, 2016 1 Comment

This past weekend my husband Frank and I watched Matt Damon in The Martian. The movie invokes just enough current technology, NASA, and space station scenes to make travel to Mars seem realistic. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health IT Tagged With: Dugan Maddux, EHR, FHIR, Health IT, HIT, Interoperability, Patient Portal

Looking for the Golden Fleece in 2016: JASON, FHIR, and the Argonaut Project

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
January 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Welcome to 2016. Let’s jump right into the FHIR! In the January 4 Acumen blog post Terry Ketchersid mentioned Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) as a 2016 product to “keep your eye on.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, FHIR Tagged With: Acumen Blog, Argonaut Project, CCHIT, Dr. John Halamka, Dugan Maddux, EHRs, FHIR, Golden Fleece, Healthcare Informatics, HIEs, HIT, HL7, JASON, Meaningful Use, MU3, ONCHIT, public API, Super PAC, Terry Ketchersid

2016: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
January 4, 2016 1 Comment

The holidays are behind us and we are off to a great start in 2016. I am sure you have each enjoyed your lucky New Year’s Day meal and have made several resolutions, which hopefully will come to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: alternative payment models, American Society of Nephrology, APMs, Argonaut Project, CMMI, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, ESCOs, ESRD, FHIR, ICD-10, MACRA, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exception, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Terry Ketchersid

FHIR: Fast, easy, and free

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
June 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

Summer is finally here, even in Boston. Lilac and honeysuckle scent the air and the warm sun lingers until almost 9 pm. It’s time for flip flops, t-shirts and s’mores. There’s nothing better than a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FHIR, HIE, HIT

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