Health Innovation

Perception vs. Reality: Application Support Services Performance

By Alfred Hamilton, PhD, Angela Rivera & Gary Mann – Change is an inevitability for healthcare organizations. Increasingly complex environments call for organizations to undergo digital transformations as they become more reliant on software and technology. Improving operational efficiency, driving business growth, and meeting quality standards…


A Foundation for Discovering Clinical Health IT Applications

By Karen De Salvo MD & Andy Slavitt – Every day across America, health information technology professionals and development teams are creating interoperability solutions using APIs. As this surge of innovation grows with each passing year, the likelihood that teams across the nation are creating similar or duplicative health IT applications is also increasing.


HIE Rundown 6-24-16

The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality: Orion Health and Koble-MN, Redox interoperating with EHRs, new DirectTrust partnership for patients program, and MedBridge partners with Raintree Systems.




HIPAA Compliance Audits Prioritized in 2017 Fiscal Budget

By Bob Grant – The Obama administration submitted its budget proposal for fiscal-year 2017. The OCR Budget in Brief details the increased budget–$1.15 trillion of which is allotted for HHS. $43 million of these funds will go to the Office for Civil Rights, and $82 million will go to the ONC.


ONC Publishes New Reports on Health IT Safety

By Andrew Gettinger MD – Safety is and always has been a top priority at ONC. We have incorporated safety into the ONC Health IT Certification Program and our guiding documents, the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2015 – 2020 and Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.