Articles by Industry Expert

The ACO REACH Model: Health IT to Support Success

By Diana Bauza – The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model is a pilot program designed to replace the current Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model. A model to promote greater health equity among the ACO beneficiaries.


Quality and Speed for Healthcare Life Sciences

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Robert Fenton, the CEO and founder of Qualio. Robert is a pharmacist by training. He was born and raised in Ireland and worked with a range of pharmaceutical companies working in quality and drug development roles.


FAST Continues FHIR Scalability Work as a New HL7 FHIR Accelerator

By Alex Kontur & Stephen Konya – The HL7® Fast Heathcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ®) at Scale Taskforce (FAST) initiative has officially left the nest and taken flight! In 2017, ONC spearheaded the FHIR at Scale Taskforce, a public-private partnership with industry stakeholders, to accelerate the scalability of FHIR across the industry.




Exceptions to a HIPAA Breach

By Art Gross – In 2007 the Guide to Medical Privacy Law was published. It indicated that on multiple occasions hospitals, EMT services, schools, and other public agencies were incorrectly withholding news out of a fear of violating HIPAA policy. Often, there isn’t a clear understanding as to what constitutes exceptions to HIPAA and who can say what.



ONC Launches New HITAC Adopted Standards Task Force

By Josianne Charles, Liz Turi, Scott Bohon, & Mike Berry – Recently the ONC launched the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) Adopted Standards Task Force to review and make recommendations on the existing set of ONC-adopted standards and implementation specifications.