Interoperability

Thinking Through FHIR Integration Decisions

FHIR app connections are not always a simple choice between direct access and the integration engine. The best decision depends on support, monitoring, security, ownership, and how the connection will fit as the environment grows.

Project Management

Maintaining Engagement in Long Health IT Projects

Long health IT projects naturally move through periods of high energy, fatigue, and re-engagement. Sustaining momentum requires communication, timing, and a clear understanding of what matters to stakeholders over time.

Operations & Optimization

Privacy by Design in Health IT

Privacy in health IT is often treated as a compliance requirement. Privacy by Design shifts the focus toward building systems, workflows, and decisions that reduce unnecessary exposure from the beginning.

Change Management

How Strong Kickoff Meetings Shape Project Culture

Kickoff meetings are often treated as routine, but they play a critical role in how a project takes shape. The way they are structured and delivered sets early expectations for clarity, ownership, and how the work will move forward.

Informatics

How ICD Codes Support Clinical and Operational Decisions

ICD codes influence far more than billing and reporting. They support operational planning, clinical decision support, quality measures, and the data used to guide care across the health system.

Operations & Optimization

Increasing Visibility Improves Collaboration

In health IT, teams often approach the same work from different perspectives. Increasing visibility into how workflows and decisions connect helps reduce assumptions and improve collaboration across roles.

Project Management

Aligning Cost and Value in Health IT Projects

Health IT business cases bring together clinical, operational, and technical perspectives. Cost is often easier to define than value, which makes ROI harder to quantify and explain over time.

Operations & Optimization

Using SBAR to Improve IT and Clinical Communication

Miscommunication between IT and clinical teams often leads to delays and frustration. Using a familiar framework like SBAR can bring structure to these conversations, helping both sides share the right information and resolve issues more efficiently.

Informatics

How SOAP Organizes Clinical Thinking

SOAP organizes how providers interpret patient status in daily progress notes. Each section captures a different part of clinical reasoning, while EHR features like copy forward, data pull-through, and templates shape how that documentation is created and used.

Project Management

Taking over a Health IT Project Already Underway

Joining a health IT project already underway comes with pressure to move quickly. Here’s how to understand where things stand, align with the team, and keep the project moving forward.

Operations & Optimization

Allergy Configuration Requires Governance

Allergy data is more than clinical history. In the EHR, it drives alerts and automated safeguards. When governance is unclear, subtle data issues can quietly alter how the system protects patients.

Informatics

Behind the Scenes of ePrescribing

ePrescribing looks simple on the surface, but behind it sits a network of systems working together across organizations.

Standards & Legislation

Why 45 CFR Part 170 Matters (and Where HTI-5 Fits)

HTI-5 is open for public comment, but it only makes sense when placed in context. This article explains how 45 CFR Parts 170 and 171 shape what the rule actually changes.

Project Management

Top Risks to Watch for in Health IT Projects

Health IT projects bring unique risks that can catch project managers off guard. This article shares strategies to identify and address them early.

Operations & Optimization

What AI is Teaching Me About Leadership and Delegation

Delegation is one of the hardest skills to master in health IT leadership. What surprised me is how much AI is helping me improve. In this article, I share four lessons AI is teaching me about clarity, context, and communication — and how they translate directly to better project outcomes.

Interoperability

Understanding HISPs in Health Information Exchange

HISPs are the invisible services behind secure health data exchange. Here’s how they work, where you see them, and why every health IT professional should understand them.

Informatics

Building Medication Safety into Health IT

The 5 Rights of medication administration guide safe practice. Here’s how they appear in EHR systems, and what health IT professionals should know to support them.

Project Management

Using the Triple Constraint to Guide Health IT Projects

Discover how the Triple Constraint of scope, time, and cost shapes health IT projects, and how it can guide better decisions and project outcomes.

Interoperability

Understanding the Basics of Health Information Exchange

A person's healthcare story rarely happens in one place. Health Information Exchange tries to bridge the gap—giving providers and care teams the information they need to make informed decisions. But participation isn't universal.

Standards & Legislation

Healthcare and The Atlantic Herring Fisherman Case

The potential overturning of the Chevron deference by the Supreme Court in a case related to Atlantic Herring Fisherman could have significant implications for healthcare.

Click to Connect: Healthcare Communication on Social Media

Social media in healthcare is like a double-edged sword – it's super useful but needs to be handled with care. Its role in enhancing patient engagement and education cannot be overstated, offering a platform for healthcare professionals to connect with and educate a diverse audience.

Operations & Optimization

Why IT Governance is Important

The collection of rules, guiding principles, processes, roles, and responsibilities that are put in place to support an organization's IT efforts should encompass strategy, business value, risk management, resources, and performance.

Standards & Legislation

Bundled Payment Models

With a bundled payment model the payer reimburses the provider or health system for all services, procedures, tests, medications, etc. within a set of defined parameters for each individual patient.

Standards & Legislation

What is Capitation?

Capitation-based reimbursement is a population-based model that involves paying a predetermined per-patient amount to cover all services over a period of time. The patients/persons that are covered under a capitated model are sometimes referred to as 'covered lives'.

Standards & Legislation

What's Wrong with Fee-for-Service?

Do you think that a restaurant would survive if there was a 'market price' label beside the entree and your final bill was broken down into dozens of items? Why is that ok in healthcare?