tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post2440804958260102037..comments2024-03-27T09:55:23.143-07:00Comments on Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: Next Steps for the National Healthcare IT agendaJohn Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-77504231704570199662017-03-03T12:41:01.040-08:002017-03-03T12:41:01.040-08:00Here's an appropriately prescient observation ...Here's an appropriately prescient observation from decade ago: "It seems tautological, but standards aren’t really standard unless they are widely adopted, and this step can’t be easily mandated." Shirky & Diamond in <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/27/5/w383.full" rel="nofollow">Health Affairs</a>. Progress towards interoperability is slower than I had expected a decade ago, but I see the long term trend is toward answering interoperability as a "when" question and not an "if" question.Will Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00144774386002006409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-55730902844814063162017-03-02T12:12:41.767-08:002017-03-02T12:12:41.767-08:00I hear you on many of these, but I'm not so su...I hear you on many of these, but I'm not so sure about the "market will solve interoperability." It hasn't happened yet in MANY industries. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-31845440844569951822017-03-01T07:47:27.589-08:002017-03-01T07:47:27.589-08:00Spot on. I have been following your writings for a...Spot on. I have been following your writings for a while and you have consistently been right about recognizing the landscape. ONC is killing innovation. They somehow think that they can create market need because it fulfills the government bureaucracy. Providers are getting less and less functionality in every product release. Vendors wish they could make basic product changes that can have an immediate impact on the user's workflow. Instead now, after MU, they are focused on trying to capture every MACRA quality measure in their product, just in case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com