If you haven't yet read the San Diego paper (authored by Carrie Hoff and Subhankar Sakar) please enjoy. In effect, this work was the principal motivator, along with Carrie's encouragement to hold the Let's Get Technical workshop at the San Diego Sum
Tech departments are moving quickly to meet the unique, urgent needs of the moment. Meanwhile, their elected leaders are grappling with gigantic revenue losses. So what does it all mean for IT or for Interoptumability?
Messaging is important and certain words and language have negative meanings for people and lead to stigmatizing attitudes toward certain populations of people. Today the NIC hosted a webinar that was around making a case for meaningful systems chang
The coronavirus pandemic is shedding light on how important health exchange data and interoperability is. In Florida, there is one health information exchange that created a portal where all health systems and patients can have access to health recor
This is the time for adaptive leadership to come forward and figure out how they can help communities adapt to the future that’s coming, particularly since most people are resistant to change. People are struggling right now and the coronavirus pande
Data can be used to do a lot of things. The amount of data around health is enormous and it continues to grow. The data that is available can help identify several things, to include cost-effective programs and policies around health. If we have this
Access to affordable housing continues to decline as rent and the cost of homes continues to increase, and the wage gap hits record highs. There is this belief across the United States that if you “pull yourself up by bootstraps” and work hard you wi
We will be diving deeply into the upstream factors that impact social determinant starting with our series this Friday 3/13/20. This will be particularly relevant given the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is affecting our public health services - and m
I just read this article about the continuing challenges of sharing information between health/hospitals and other systems/domains e.g. social services. This is exacetly the problem we are trying to address in our the Let's Get Technical group's pro
Please add your recommendations about what topics would be of most interest to discuss in the LGT group. Your thoughts and recommendations will help us align interests and priorities.
The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), brings together a highly representative group of motivated healthcare industry stakeholders and health information technology experts. The gro
I have been at the ONC Interoperability Forum in DC for a few days and I had an opportunity to discuss NIEM for Health with a very well respected former government official whose perspectve I respect very much. He has a long history with standards de
"The 42 CFR part 2 regulations serve to protect patient records created by federally funded programs for the treatment of substance use disorder (SUD). SAMHSA is
About 50 LGT members participated during the course of the 90-minute meeting. There was a high level of interest and engagement throughout, as there has been on previous calls.
The meeting began with self-introductions, then a review of previous disc
Please take a look at the one page overview about the proposed way forward for LGT. This is meant to orient new members to the group, and also stimulate thinking and recommendations about how best to harvest and supercharge the participants of this g
