Pay-for-Play Interoperability, Texting in Healthcare, and Health IT Conferences – #HITsm Chat Highlights
Topic One: Is “pay-for-play” interoperability going to derail CommonWell’s goal of building an industry-wide, interoperable framework?
T1: Epic’s Judy Faulkner seemed to echo this sentiment at the HITPC meeting last week. Anyone catch that? Thoughts? #HITsm
— Jenny Laurello (@jennylaurello) April 12, 2013
T1: I heard that it was a few million dollars to participate in CommonWell.That sounds like “pay-for-play” to me.#HITsm
— EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) April 12, 2013
T1: I just had a convo about this very issue with our state medical society. Huge issue for small docs who need to switch EHRs. #HITsm
— Chad Johnson (@OchoTex) April 12, 2013
T1: The standards already exist. The problem is adoption.Pay or free, adoption is the key. #hitsm
— BuildYourEMR (bYemr) (@BuildYourEMR) April 12, 2013
Topic Two: Will texting in health care become a main driver of #patientengagement? Are iOS iMessage texts HIPAA compliant?
T2: Texting can be one avenue to drive #patientengagement.It cannot be exclusive and it needs to be captured to the patient chart. #hitsm
— BuildYourEMR (bYemr) (@BuildYourEMR) April 12, 2013
T2: Texting is one way to engage with patients, but NOT the only way.I like it that my docs text me reminders & that I can opt in. #HITsm
— Keith W. Boone (@motorcycle_guy) April 12, 2013
T2: Cell phone carriers surely licking their chops at opportunities texting presents. Overall, shrinking text volumes in industry.#HITsm
— RightPatient (@RightPatient) April 12, 2013
T2 Healthcare should embrace anything that increases engagement. Unless the aim is to further distance itself from patients. #hitsm
— Brian Eastwood (@Brian_Eastwood) April 12, 2013
Topic Three: Experts claim data breaches are inevitable for health systems. Agree? What can be done NOW to minimize #healthIT security risks?
T3: Experts claim breaches are inevitable for health sys, have to be a poster child first to be prepared in future. Agree? Disagree? #HITsm
— Jenny Laurello (@jennylaurello) April 12, 2013
T3: Developing a data protection “collection mindset” at healthcare orgs is a good start. #HITsm — RightPatient (@RightPatient) April 12, 2013
T3: Yes, they are inevitable.We just have to try and do our best to minimize the number and size of them. #HITsm — EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) April 12, 2013
T3: Still not sure, but these people have me thinking that breach minimization more realistic than prevention. bit.ly/Zfns9C#hitsm — Don Fluckinger (@DonFluckinger) April 12, 2013
Topic Four: What’s the next-best #healthIT event/conference you’re attending? Are there other health IT topics that deserve their own event?
T4: Have to give a plug for the Health IT Leadership Summit healthitleadershipsummit.org #HITsm
— RightPatient (@RightPatient) April 12, 2013
T4: Beyond EHRs: Information Exchange and Your Practice – #Buffalo – nyehealth.org/event/2013-hie… … #hitsm
— Donald F Lee III (@dflee30) April 12, 2013
T4 Mostly staying in Boston area (mHealth World, Telehealth Congress), traveling to @iht2 events. (Disclaimer: Moderating panels.) #hitsm
— Brian Eastwood (@Brian_Eastwood) April 12, 2013
T4: I find value in all! #ATA2013 awesome. Not well reimbursed & they serve underserved populations anyway. Much innovation going on #hitsm
— Don Fluckinger (@DonFluckinger) April 12, 2013
