Unstructured Data: The Star Waiting in The Wings
Data-filled electronic health records hold the promise of predictive, personalized medicine and improved population health. Up until now, much of the data retrieved from records is structured data,...
View ArticleAn Unwilling Participant: Why Collecting My Personal Health Data Is Annoying
A few weeks ago, I read the New Yorker piece “Stepping Out” by David Sedaris on his obsession with his FitBit. Since getting the device, Sedaris says he’s increased his daily steps taken to 65,000, far...
View ArticleVirtual Humans: More Honest Data in the Future of Healthcare
Any dancer or doctor knows full well what an incredibly expressive device your body is. 300 joints! 600 muscles! Hundreds of degrees of freedom! The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the...
View ArticleLet’s Play Ball! The Future of Baseball is Tracking Health Data
During this tech boom, is it a coincidence that the tech savvy San Francisco Giants are in the World Series for the third time since 2010? In this post, we take a look at the relationship of...
View ArticleExecutive Seminar Series: The Big Impact of Small Data
Data – it’s everywhere and it’s a “big” deal. While ‘Big Data’ is a catchy buzzword and continues to make the headlines, it’s really ‘Small Data’ that can have the bigger, more immediate impact. Small...
View ArticleiNTERFACEWARE Redefines Healthcare Analytics in the Big Impact of Small Data...
Interoperability Software Leader to Disrupt Healthcare by Urging Executives to Think Small CHICAGO, Illinois — December 1, 2014 — iNTERFACEWARE®, a software provider committed to simplifying healthcare...
View ArticleHealth Data Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Think Like a Retailer
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” –Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. or “Data, data, everywhere, but…” With...
View ArticleData Liberación Gets Personal, EXTREME Interoperability
The things we can do with health data are expanding and maturing toward a value-based, precision medicine future. That was apparent at the annual Health DataPalooza in Washington DC, an annual event...
View Article[#HITsm Chat, 8.28.15] Health Data and Information Governance
Moderated by Erin Head, Director of Health Information Management at Parrish Medical Center Topic: Crowdsourcing Patient Experience on Social Media Chats are held at 11 a.m, CST, every Friday. Follow...
View Article[#HITsm Chat, 9.4.15] Beyond Patient-Generated Health Data – What...
Moderated by Mandi Bishop, Health Plan Analytics Innovation Practice Lead, Dell Topic: Beyond Patient-Generated Health Data – What Non-Clinical Data Matters in Health? Chats are held at 11 a.m, CST,...
View Article[#HITsm Chat, 9.4.15] Beyond Patient-Generated Health Data – What...
Moderated by Mandi Bishop, Health Plan Analytics Innovation Practice Lead, Dell Topic: Beyond Patient-Generated Health Data – What Non-Clinical Data Matters in Health? Chats are held at 11 a.m, CST,...
View Article[#HITsm Chat, 8.28.15] Health Data and Information Governance
Moderated by Erin Head, Director of Health Information Management at Parrish Medical Center Topic: Crowdsourcing Patient Experience on Social Media Chats are held at 11 a.m, CST, every Friday. Follow...
View ArticleDon’t Gimme Just Damn Data
People don’t actually want their health data? You can’t judge demand for a bridge by the number of people swimming across #Tracer — Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) October 6, 2015 Dr. Mostashari’s...
View ArticleThe Impact of Data Integration At Your Hospital
For a patient, nothing is quite as frustrating as navigating the healthcare system and being required to bring your documentation to every department. Likewise, when a simple phone call to inquire...
View ArticleBarriers To Interoperability In Healthcare: The “Lack of Data Standards”
iNTERFACEWARE recently ran a poll asking “What’s the greatest barrier to interoperability in healthcare? The ‘lack of data standards’ lead the poll with 36%. What do people really mean when they say...
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