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A Taxonomy of Healthcare Data Quality
Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, presented a webinar on the Taxonomy of Healthcare Data Quality as a tool to assess the quality of healthcare data. He discussed the benefits of using a standard classification to assess data and shared a practical example using real-world medication data ... Read More
Understanding the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)
In January of 2018, ONC released its first draft of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and in April of 2019, ONC released the second draft. After reviewing ... Read More
Informonster and Sparky the FHIR Dog Go To DevDays
Recently I had the pleasure of attending my second FHIR DevDays event, this year on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. I was accompanied by a couple of my pals – our #Informonster and ... Read More
Interoperability Rules!
In a blog from last year, I summarized a variety of national and local efforts to hasten the interoperability of healthcare data. In this entry, I’d like to focus on a few ... Read More
National Nurses Week 2019: 4 Million Reasons to Celebrate
This year’s slogan, 4 Million Reasons to Celebrate, is a reminder of how diverse the field of nursing has become. Not only in our personal diversity, yet our profession has ... Read More
We Are With You: Nursing Advocacy Behind the Screen
"What do you do?" A question I often get, and typically I respond with “I used to be a nurse, but now I work in Health IT.” That’s the simple ... Read More
Closure of Documentation Gaps to Optimize HCC Capture
Risk adjustment is a process that is used to estimate future health spending for payers with Medicare Advantage or Affordable Care Act Marketplace health insurance plans, providers in Medicare Shared ... Read More
Cooking with Terminologies
If you know a little bit about Symedical®, you are probably aware that it is world-class software tooling that supports healthcare data quality efforts. Did you know that Clinical Architecture ... Read More
Healthcare Information Quality – What is Quality?
In the trenches of healthcare, important decisions are made every day. We make decisions about best practices, populations, critical resources and most importantly, patients. These decisions often have serious, even ... Read More
Ready Computing and Clinical Architecture Collaborate to Deliver a New and Data Solution Utilizing InterSystems HealthShare®
Ready Computing today announced the availability of a novel, off-the-shelf solution that enables a more unified and easy-to-understand view of a patient’s medical history. The solution, known as “HealthShare Adaptors ... Read More
Can Appropriate Prescribing Practices Curb the Opioid Crisis?
According to a report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the misuse and abuse of opioids is associated with a staggering number of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, overdose deaths, ... Read More
Making an Impact
One of the greatest impacts many of us hope to achieve in our careers is a meaningful impact on care delivery, healthcare outcomes, and healthcare innovation. In the last part ... Read More
The Importance of Passion
Each of our nurses discovered the field in a unique way. Today our nurses share advice for fellow nurses who are interested in a career in nursing informatics ... Read More
The Backbone of Healthcare
National Nurses Week is an opportunity for us to thank our incredible nurses, as well as all nurses who make an impact across the healthcare continuum ... Read More
Healthcare Interoperability: Are We There Yet?
I recently had my car serviced, and although I took it to my local dealer’s service center, it was not the same location where I purchased the car. When I ... Read More
Diagnosis and Treatment of Free Text Syndrome
Free Text Syndrome (FTS) is a chronic condition that impacts a large number of health IT systems. Clinical features include the presence of unstructured data in procedure reports, clinical notes, ... Read More
