I have some concerns regarding the changes that the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced. The underlying reason for requiring a certification is to provide certainty to the purchaser of a product. ONC’s rationale for pursuing self-declaration was to lessen the burden on the vendor and[…]
Words and Context Matter
Like many people in HIT, science fiction and fact fascinate me. So, I took my wife on an HIT person’s kind of date to see the “stellar” movie Arrival. [You can read on from here without any concerns about spoiler alerts beyond what the movie trailers reveal.] She loved it.[…]
HIMSS17 – Make the most of IT
We’re in those final few frenzied weeks before HIMSS. You are either sitting it out this year because it’s just gotten too big or you’re too busy to take the time to go. If that’s the case, you’re maybe hoping your team attending will get a lot out of it[…]
Interoperability – Make it so.
When Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the Starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame, had gathered his facts and made a decision, he uttered the phrase, “Make it so.” After a career spent working intermittently but consistently on interoperability, I’m thrilled that a confluence of factors make nationwide interoperability a reality.[…]
Let’s dive right in!
We are excited to be launching our new advisory firm, StarBridge Advisors. Our industry has made great progress in recent years but there is much work yet to do. As seasoned leaders in healthcare and information technology we each have a different story of how we got into this business.[…]