Maintaining Data Security: Interview with Lee Barrett – Part 1
By Sarianne Gruber – A Conversation on Accreditation with Lee Barrett, Executive Director of EHNAC highlighting some of the unique aspects of working with Healthcare data.
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Interoperability among Connected Medical Devices Can Potentially Transform Healthcare
Connected health infrastructure is emerging as a binding agent for diverse devices and workflows, aiding diagnosis, monitoring and prevention in the healthcare industry. For such an infrastructure to be efficient, stakeholders must first ensure that interoperability and connectivity standards are in place.
Hashtag Highlights from #hdpalooza
The Health Datapalooza conference was in Washington DC this week. The conference focuses on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government…
Is Medicine Precise Enough to Achieve Precision Medicine?
By William Hersh MD – One of the aspects of medicine that struck me as a medical student was its imprecision. I was surprised, sometimes shocked, at decisions that were made based on vague symptoms reported by patients, ambiguous findings detected on physical examination, and even variation in “hard” measurements such as laboratory results.
Announcements at Health Datapalooza
Health Datapalooza Day 1 and 2 focusing focusses on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government agencies, and individuals with the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data to improve patient outcomes.
Interoperability and the Trough of Disillusionment
By John Halamka MD – Every technology has an adoption journey. The classic Gartner hype curve travels from a Technology Trigger to the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. It often takes years before organizations reach the Slope of Enlightenment and finally achieve a Plateau of Productivity.
Reducing Hospital Readmissions: a HITEC Study on Community-Based HIE
By Sarianne Gruber – HITEC studied the association between the usage of an HIE system post-discharge and 30-day same cause hospital readmissions among patients in Rochester, NY.
Semantic Drift and the Persistence of Informatics
By William Hersh MD – Being concerned with representation of information and knowledge, researchers in informatics sometimes express concern with the concept of “semantic drift,” where the meaning of words and concepts changes over time.
Healthcare Analytics Summit
Health Catalyst is hosting the summit on September 8-10 in Salt Lake City, UT at The Grand America Hotel. Early registration special ends May 31st.