At HIMSS, I listened carefully to payers, providers, patients, developers, and researchers. Below is a distillation of what I heard from thousands of stakeholders. It is not partisan and does not criticize the work of any person in industry, government or academia. It reflects the lessons learned from the past 20 years of healthcare IT implementation and policymaking. Knowing where we are now and where we want to be, here are 10 guiding principles.
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Governor O'Malley Joins Open Health IT Company, Amida Technology Solutions, as Advisor
Press Release |
Amida Technology Solutions |
July 7, 2016
Amida Technology Solutions, a Maryland-based open source software company, today announced the addition of former Governor Martin J. O’Malley as an Advisor. O’Malley joins distinguished public-sector leaders Michèle Flournoy, General John R. Allen, Sonal Shah, and Scott Gould in guiding Amida in the creation of software and services that will help NGOs, state and local governments, and private companies to solve their most complex data issues. Read More »
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Grahame Grieve on What Project Argonaut Means for the HL7/FHIR Community
By Grahame Grieve | December 11, 2014
Project Argonaut was announced last week. You can see the announcement here. That press release was intended for an external community, and didn’t address lots of important questions for the HL7 community itself. So here’s an outline of what project Argonaut means in practice for HL7.
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Hacker Calls Health Security "Wild West'
Erin McCann | HealthCare IT News | June 11, 2014
As head of the security consulting firm Secure Ideas, [Kevin Johnson's] job involves probing into organizations' networks and applications to identify vulnerabilities. And what he sees in healthcare terrifies him...
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Hagel Orders Health System Action Plans, Data Review
Dan Verton | FedScoop | October 1, 2014
A comprehensive review of the Military Health System released Wednesday found that the Pentagon’s 56 hospitals and 361 clinics generally provide the same quality of care found in the private sector, but the department lacks concrete data and analysis capabilities that could help it improve performance, safety and access to care, especially at facilities found to be significantly underperforming in certain categories...
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Halamka on Why he Disagrees with the "Snake Oil" Analogy
By John D. Halamka, MD | June 14, 2016
Earlier this week, the American Medical Association CEO called digital healthcare products modern-day "snake oil." As a provider and a technologist, I think we need a deeper dive to understand the issues, avoiding the kind of hyperbole that’s so common in politics today. Paul B. Batalden, MD, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), once said “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”. Let’s take a brief look at the history of national healthcare IT efforts from 2004-2016 to understand how we’ve achieved exactly the results we designed.
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Halamka's Advice to the Trump Administration
By John D. Halamka, MD | January 11, 2017
As I've listened to the confirmation hearings for cabinet nominees, I’ve realized that no one with healthcare IT expertise has yet been identified by the transition team. I continue to ask all my colleagues about any contact they’ve had with anyone advising the new administration - so far, no one has been asked anything by anyone related to healthcare IT. At this early time in the administration, it’s important to offer advice as to the priorities ahead for the next few years. What would I recommend to the new administration?
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Halamka's Dispatch from HIMSS
By John D. Halamka, MD | March 4, 2016
Every year I walk the HIMSS floor and speak at HIMSS events with the hope that I can distill the conference sensory overload into a few key themes. In the recent past, big data, interoperability, personalized medicine, population health, and wearables were buzzwords in every booth. This year, the buzzwords were replaced by one overarching concept - providers and vendors must innovate or die. In the next 24 months we’ll see an accelerating evolution of fee for service into alternative payment models fueled by MACRA and MIPS
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Halamka's Next Steps for the National Healthcare IT agenda
By John D. Halamka, MD | March 1, 2017
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Harris Corporation Awarded $19 Million Contract to Create One of the Largest Healthcare Mobility Infrastructures for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Press Release |
Harris Corporation |
June 5, 2012
Harris Corporation...has been awarded a two-year, $19 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology to create a wireless network infrastructure for medical centers nationwide. Read More »
Hawaii and Health Care: A Small State Takes a Giant Step Forward
Ann Waldo | O'Reilly Radar | August 21, 2012
In an era characterized by political polarization and legislative stalemate, the tiny state of Hawaii has just demonstrated extraordinary leadership. The rest of the country should now recognize, applaud, and most of all, learn from Hawaii’s accomplishment. Read More »
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Health 2.0 and ONC Announce the Winner of the Reporting Device Adverse Events Challenge
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ONC, Health 2.0, Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative |
June 7, 2012
Today, Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) are announcing the winner of the Investing in Innovation initiative's (i2) Reporting Device Adverse Events Challenge. The i2 initiative utilizes prizes and challenges to facilitate innovation and obtain solutions to intractable health IT problems. Read More »
Health 2.0 and ONC Launch New Challenge Through the Investing in Innovation (I2) Initiative
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ONC, Health 2.0, Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative |
July 11, 2012
Today, Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for HealthInformation Technology (ONC) announced the launch of a new Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative competition that challenges developer communities to create innovative health information technology (HIT) solutions. Read More »
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Health Care Modernization On Track, Acquisition Chief Says
Jim Garamone | U.S. Department of Defense | June 26, 2014
A multi-billion dollar acquisition to modernize DoD’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) and improve interoperability of healthcare information between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs is on track, the Program Executive Officer for the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization and Integrated Electronic Health Records program said today...
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Health Gorilla and the Puerto Rico Department of Health Reach Milestone in Health Information Exchange Network
Press Release |
Health Gorilla |
July 29, 2021
Health Gorilla, the largest interoperability provider in Puerto Rico, in conjunction with the Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDOH), today announced a milestone achievement following the official launch of the Puerto Rico Health Information Exchange (PRHIE) on July 1st. In the one month since go-live, Health Gorilla has successfully connected 25% of Puerto Rico's population to the PRHIE. This innovative project enables healthcare providers to access and share patient medical record data securely and electronically across more than 400 care sites, 4,200 providers, and more than 700,000 patients.
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Health IT Attracts Venture Capital
John Pulley | NextGov | July 25, 2012
Health IT companies raised $293 million in global venture capital from 61 investors in the second quarter of this year, according to a report released Monday by Mercom Capital Group. Read More »
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