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Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 69 | Pre-HIMSSanity!

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Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are pregaming HIMSS at WSJ Tech Health. In this episode, Jess asks me about my biggest takeaways from WSJ Tech Health—and what we’re looking forward to at HIMSS. We’ll be at booth #5594 with SMACK.health, along with WTF Health, our new podcast Hardcore Health and ten exciting tech companies including: Tag.bio, BlueStream Health, Happego, Ouchie, SurveyorHealth, Dot.Health, SAFE App, InPharmD, CaptureProof and Visolyr. Get a rundown of them here. We also have a guest question from Katie McGraw from W2O about predictions for big topics at HIMSS. –Matthew Holt

 

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 65 | Microsoft-Walgreens, Google, and HIMSS

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Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is braving the oncoming blizzard in Boston for MassChallenge. In this episode, Jess asks me about some crazy things happening in health tech, from the recently announced Microsoft-Walgreens partnership to compete with Amazon, to Google buying new smartwatch technology from Fossil, to Jim Cramer’s suggestion that Apple should buy Epic. Also in some HIMSS news, Atul Gawande has pulled out of HIMSS. But—I’ve got a booth for Smack Health at HIMSS this year, so stop by to find some Smack startups & Jess doing WTF Health interviews as well. –Matthew Holt

It Looks Like the Head of HIMSS Likes Us

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By JONATHAN BUSH

The headline said that the chief of HIMSS sees “seismic shifts” in the health IT landscape.

I sure hope so because I’m betting on it.

As many of our employees know, HIMSS is a massively important leader in our space, and their annual conference—this year it was held in Orlando and set an attendance record of over 30,000 people and 1,000 vendors—is our chance to feel small and uninvited. It is a club of large vendors and large buyers. Very large deals, you might say ‘seismic’ deals, requiring long-term multimillion dollar commitments in EHR and practice management systems, go down at the HIMSS conventions.

Obviously, our consistent criticism has been that the balance sheet impact of such investments is not sustainable by any health care institution for long, BUT ALSO, the information that comes from such investment…well…sucks.

It doesn’t suck because the IT departments that buy and run these EHR andpractice management systems are bad (they may or may not be, I have no idea, but that isn’t the problem). It isn’t because the systems being purchased don’t work as advertised (I have no idea if they do, but I assume the answer is ‘yes’).

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WTF Health | Blockchain God Ted Tanner of PokitDok

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By JESSICA DAMASSA

THCB is thrilled to help launch a new interview series from Jessica DaMassa. It’s called WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health. Jessica is bringing you all some honest conversations about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Check out her first set of interviews from #HIMSS18 at www.wtf.health or stay tuned as she trots them out here.

I’m leading off with one of my favorites, Ted Tanner, Blockchain GOD and CTO of PokitDok. Here’s why you should watch Ted talk blockchain:

  • Best Part: On what blockchain does NOT do… “it doesn’t make unicorns cough up $100 bills” (approx. 7 min)
  • Why we need to look at blockchain as an ‘enablement platform’ that augments, not ‘rips and replaces’
  • Predictions for the future of blockchain as tech giants move in
  • How blockchain will be the next evolution of enterprise computing

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 3

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Here’s the third episode of Health in 2 point 00, hosted by Jessica DaMassa. This week the tech and parties of HIMSS18 are looming on the horizon and she asks me as many questions as I can answer in two minutes. Hope you enjoy it! And if you have questions please leave them in the comments–Matthew Holt

Health 2.0 has something important to tell you

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By INDU SUBAIYA and MATTHEW HOLT

Important news about my day job at Health 2.0 from my partner Indu Subaiya and me! You can also see the press release here and watch a video discussion with HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber—Matthew Holt

Indu and Matthew are excited to announce that after 10 years of convening the Health 2.0 community through our events and programs around the world, our conference company has found a new home and a partner who will help us exponentially expand our reach and impact. Effective immediately, we are joining forces with HIMSS and will be established as a new Health 2.0 business unit within the enterprise that includes HIMSS North America, HIMSS Analytics, HIMSS Media, HIMSS Europe, HIMSS AsiaPacific and the Personal Connected Health Alliance.

Health 2.0 and HIMSS share a single mission, to improve health outcomes by leveraging the best that technology has to offer. While terms change through the years, that common end goal hasn’t and won’t moving forward.

Our integration with HIMSS is a transformative opportunity to bring the knowledge and expertise from Health 2.0’s global network of entrepreneurs, developers and end-users together with that of clinicians, IT professionals, health care executives, policy leaders and other stakeholders to make a sustainable difference.

We are at a critical inflection point in the evolution of the health technology industry. Exciting advances in data science and AI, precision medicine and genomics, sensors and hardware to name just a few, coupled with the increased rate of adoption of digital health technologies by health care providers, payers, life science companies and communities require a level of collaboration like never before.

And yet, start-ups face barriers to access and distribution while large organizations face challenges in vetting and selecting new technology partners. Working with HIMSS, we will be able to create even more vibrant formats for interaction and more efficient mechanisms for innovation to spread throughout the healthcare system.

Countries around the world want to share models and best practices, to import and export health technology innovation while growing their own markets and their market reach globally. Working with HIMSS, we will be able to combine and expand our global footprint to be better ambassadors as well.

Indu will join HIMSS as executive vice president for the newly established Health 2.0 business unit and continue to co-host Health 2.0’s Annual Fall and Wintertech conferences with Matthew, while he will be our globe-trotting ambassador and continue to host and develop our international business.

Since 1961, HIMSS has focused on its vision of improving health and healthcare with the best use of information technology. Now, more than 55 years later, it continues on this path to improve the quality and affordability of, and access to, healthcare.

Health 2.0 was born from a need for consumers to take charge of their health using new technology frameworks that disintermediated access to health information and services. Over the past 10 years the Health 2.0 community has spawned an ecosystem of companies that helped bridge the gap between the institutional world of care delivery. We were bound to meet in the middle.

As with all great partnership journeys, we know this is not an ending, but a beginning.  When it comes to technology, there will always be a new frontier. It’s going to take all of us to explore that frontier together and to translate new ideas into the industry standard. We need both the foundation and the means to continually experiment to make good on our mission to leverage the best technology has to offer in helping us live healthier lives.

Onwards and together,

Indu & Matthew

Indu Subaiya is Co-Chairman & CEO of Health 2.0, and Matthew Holt is Co-Chairman of Health 2.0

An EHR Attestation Report Card and Data Set

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by FRED TROTTER and ASHISH PATEL

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DocGraph will release an initial dataset will become available on the last full day at HIMSS, and the crowdfund will continue until Datapalooza. This post discusses our underlying motivation for creating a new dataset, as well as some of our goals with its release.

I enjoy and appreciate many aspects of the annual HIMSS conference: the people who run it, the attendees, educational sessions, and keynotes. Further, I find that regional and local HIMSS events are well worth attending. However, I am not a fan of the “big” HIMSS tradeshow floor. The parallels between walking down the “main aisle” at HIMSS and walking down the strip at Vegas creates are striking. The opulence of the Vegas strip and the excess in the HIMSS tradeshow floor both stir a sense of unease and bring up the same questions: “Who is paying for all of this? Is someone getting fleeced? Is it me? If it is not me, would that make the fleecing OK?”

The HIMSS tradeshow floor is a necessary evil because we have, in Health IT, no better way to make decisions about what products we buy. As it stands, figuring out which vendors have the biggest booths at HIMSS is probably not the worst way to make decisions about EHR systems.

The alternative is to hire someone to tell us which EHR vendor fits us best. Probably the most famous provider in this space is the “Best in Klas” service. However, Klas is famous for being payed by both sides of the industry. Klas is paid both by potential EHR purchasers and by those who sell EHR system. Like HIMSS, Klas creates a space for buyers and sellers to meet. I think Klas and HIMSS both do an admirable job trying to maintain fairness and objectivity, given the massive financial biases under which both organizations operate.

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HIT Newser

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By MICHELLE RONAN-NOTEBOOM

HIMSS and CHIME to HHS: ONC Needs Full-time National Coordinator

In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, CHIME and ONC stress the need to hire a full-time National Coordinator for the ONC, should Karen DeSalvo continue to serve as both the ONC head and the assistant secretary of health:

“If Dr. DeSalvo is going to remain as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health with part-time duties in health IT, we emphasize the need to appoint new ONC leadership immediately that can lead the agency on the host of critical issues that must be addressed.”

AMA Calls for Removal of MU Penalties

The AMA calls for all MU penalties to be halted and for the program to be more flexible with a shorter reporting period.  In addition, the AMA urges policymakers to refocus the MU program on interoperability and seek ways to improve product usability.

Cerner Breaks Ground at New Campus

Cerner breaks ground at a new $4.45 billion campus in Kansas City, which is expected to house 16,000 new Cerner employees within the next 10 years. The project includes about $1.75 billion in public tax subsidies.

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Who Is Your Sugar Data?

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By JORDAN SHLAIN MD

Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 5.23.44 AMDoctors (and patients) must own their data or they will lose the most precious asset in healthcare and possibly their future.

I hate to be the voice that repeats what others are saying, however it was recently stated in the Wall Street Journal and has been retweeted in the digital health echo-chamber:  “Data is the currency of healthcare”…and it is liquid.  Liquid gold.  It can be packaged, repurposed and traded for big money.

It hit me right between the eyes last year at the HIMSS conference – : who were all these people, and what were they peddling?  What are they making and what were they selling?  Data-Gold.   As a doctor on the front lines, I had a sinking feeling and the cold realization that while all the razzle-dazzle on the exhibition floor (complete with models, give-aways and million dollar booths), the data that was being traded was collected by doctors and provided by patients.  Simply put, patients are data and the doctors role is to collate, codify and create meta-data.  That is, doctors synthesize thedata presented and generate more data (diagnosis, treatment) which we then enter into a machine (electronic medical record).  That little machine is connected to some tubes and wires and the data defies gravity and heads straight up to the cloud.

The image that continues to torture my imagination is an army doctors, running from room to room on the proverbial hamster wheel of medicine entering data up to the cloud where nymphs with gold cups of champagne and data/analytics CEO’s were bathing in hundred dollar bills chortling merrily at their successes (on the backs of the data collectors).

While the Sugar Data’s mint cash, doctors are told they can expect decreasing reimbursement for the next decade.

Encyclopedia Britannica is a cautionary tale for doctors (and patients).  They had all the data but did not understand it’s value when digitized.  Wikipedia ate their lunch.  I had lunch the other day with a physician employed by a foundation and was flummoxed to hear that her $5,000 performance bonus check was going to the foundation, not her.  She had no idea, nor any access to the performace data and had it not been for an accidental letter sent to her about the check, she would have never known.  Ah, the dark art of data control.  If we as a society don’t get this digital health data ownership correct, actors will be creating the health version of credit default swaps.  oy.

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