2016 in Review

Many people are yearning for the end of 2016 - too many unexpected deaths of notable people, too many unexpected acts of violence, too many unexpected election results.However, 2016 did have its highlights.  In early 2016, I wrote about thefive pillars of the BIDMC strategic plan for the year - social media-like documentation, mobile technologies for patients/providers, analytics for care management, cloud hosted interoperability and and enhanced security. Here ’s my top 10 list from 2016 as to how these concepts actually played out.1. In early 2016, a guiding coalition of developers and providers suggested apath forward for national interoperability. By the end of 2016, all the EHR vendors agreed toopenly share data among their platforms using a query/response architecture. 2. MACRA/MIPS as implemented in the Quality Payment Program final rule reversed the trend of overly prescriptive healthcare IT regulations. Clinicians have choices instead of endless data entry.3. Apple has accelerated the use of consumer products as middleware.  880 million people carry a supercomputer with them (their iPhone) and it can be used to gather objective data from internet of things devices in the home. BIDMC@Homewould never have been possible without simple to use middleware on phones.4. Cloud hosting became a reality for mission critical healthcare applications. Google, Amazon and Dell/NTTData agreed to sign business ass...
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