Our 2017 Priorities

In early 2016, I wrote about the 5 pillars of the BIDMC 2016 work plan - social networking, mobile, analytics, cloud, and keeping data private (SMACK)As we begin 2017, what should be the focus of our work over the next year?1. Embrace Social Networking concepts in our workflow, including the EHRRegardless of the policies, repeals, and delays of the Trump administration, we ’ll still need to optimize usability and support the four goals of value-based purchasing - quality measurement, total medical expense management, practice process improvement and technology adoption.  BIDMC has already created a prototype of groupware documentation and we should complete our next generation inpatient documentation solution by mid 2017.  Part of that work incorporates open source secure texting as part of the medical record.  We ’re also piloting Google’s G-suite so that our stakeholders can store/share, collaborate, and communicate on any device from anywhere using only a browser. Our vision is to eventually eliminate the need for a managed desktop.  Google G-suite, Amazon AppStream, Office 365 are all options.2. Make mobile the preferred form factor for interacting with applicationsMobile is not just a shift in form factor, it ’s a shift in user experience that can take into account the location of the user and enable different types of user interaction including voice, touch, and gestures.  Mobile is not just a front end client, it also inc...
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