In Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, New York University professor Charlton McIlwain asks in his introduction a question that seems even more pressing in our time since the extraordinary events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 about the role of…

Back in March of this year, when we were still wrapping our minds around the severity and implications of the pandemic, a group of Senators and House members wrote to the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services that the agency had a data problem. Among the failings…

Over the past 6 years, I have watched the hype and disillusion around the potential use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Much of the early hype was driven by IBM Watson and its purported singular capability to help providers and researchers discover new ways to detect and treat disease, especially…

One of the early effects of COVID-19 on healthcare has been the rapid increase in the use of telehealth instead of office visits. This growth has largely been driven by the circumstances of the pandemic, as well as CMS temporary waivers loosening restrictions on Medicare payments for telehealth services. Technology…

For software and product development, the time to market (i.e. the time it takes to transform an idea into a product and push it to market) is critical. At NewWave, a leading digital services provider for the Federal Government, this is no different. As we develop products, we need the…

As a kid, I had an irrational fear of quicksand It terrified me to think that I could be exploring and suddenly find myself waist deep in a quagmire of unmanageable outcomes. I remember the thoughts of struggling through the murkiness without a limb, rope, or lifeline flung to me…

Technology to enable patient identification matching has improved tremendously over the years and will continue in that trajectory as artificial intelligence, better identity management and new data sources become more ubiquitous. Once again, Congress decided not to allocate funding for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to begin…

The Convergence of FHIR & Blue Button The disruptive possibilities of FHIR and consumer-mediated exchange are as important as the policy debates about Medicare-for-All and the future of the Affordable Care Act. We are at the beginning of this revolution. In 2011 when Australian HL7 thought-leader Grahame Grieve proposed the…