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?

Informatics

The 5 Core SDOH Domains

With an increased focus on social determinants of health (SDOH) around the world, it should come as no surprise that the topic is making its way into U.S. government-led initiatives. The Healthy People 2030 initiative outlines 5 core areas as areas of focus that should be considered for SDOH work.

Informatics

Social Determinants of Health

Health and wellbeing for individuals involves more than just physiological factors. With increases in electronic records and interoperability, efforts to address SDOH are being prioritized for many organizations.

Technology

Leveraging Synthetic Data

Synthetic data is data that's generated from computer simulations or algorithms to create AI (artificial intelligence) models. One of the biggest benefits to using synthetic data is the time and the cost it takes to generate usable data.

Technology

Cloud Computing in a Nutshell

As more organizations shifts towards a cloud-first approach it is important to understand what the various cloud computing terms mean.

Interoperability

What is a HISP?

There are a ton of acronyms and terms used in healthcare IT when talking about interoperability. In this video I will provide a basic overview of what a Health Information Service Provider (HISP) is and how it relates to the DirectTrust [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&

Interoperability

Clinical Data Exchange Models

A closer look at the most common architectural models and data exchange forms for Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Standards & Legislation

21st Century Cures - Information Blocking Exceptions

A high-level overview video to review the 8 exceptions providers, health IT developers of certified IT, HINs, and HIEs have available with the new Information Blocking rule. (Transcript included.)

Standards & Legislation

21st Century Cures - Information Blocking Overview

In the 21st Century Cures Act, section 4004 indicates that an entity cannot information block. The rule applies to health care providers, health IT developers of Certified Health IT (so system developers), as well as health information networks (HINs) and health information exchanges (HIEs).

Project Management

Involving Patients in IT Application Design

Involving clinicians and administrative staff in IT system design is common practice. For patient-facing apps, should we include patient reps in design sessions?

Operations & Optimization

What is a Digital Front Door?

The term digital front door is something that we are starting to see more and more in the healthcare space. So what it is? ... It's the landing page or the “lobby space” that an individual will go to for a health system or health organization.

Informatics

Is Dr. Google Improving Health Literacy?

Making sure patients have a basic understanding of the health information they need to make decisions needs to be done with the realization that people are going to Google.

Operations & Optimization

The Future of Telehealth

As COVID-19 lock downs ease up, some are starting to see a decrease in the use of Telehealth. Is now the time to focus on optimizing these services?

Change Management

Communicating an Urgent Change

There are times that require an IT change be put in place rapidly. Providing notice to end-users must have both brevity and clarity. Here are the 6 elements to include.

Attending HIMSS 2020

There are less than two weeks to go before the health care technology world descends on Orlando, FL for the HIMSS 2020 Global Conference. Whether you are a first time attendee or a seasoned veteran, I’ve got a few tips to help you survive the week.