The Key to Healthy IT Systems
The keys to maintaining personal and public health share commonalities with the keys to maintaining IT system health. The Centers for Disease Control published a list of Local Public Health System Performance Standards which lists 10 essential public health services. The first is monitoring health status. This is the first step in maintaining IT system health too. In our previous post mHealth –...
Read MoreEHR Market Maturing
One signal that an industry is maturing – in a good way – is when its participants work together to develop standards that enable interoperability. In the case of Health IT, the federal government has promoted industry maturity. HHS has designated six organizations as Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCB). The designation...
Read MoreData Sharing and COTS vs. Custom
Baseline Magazine calls the buy vs. build decision “The Eternal Dilemma” when it comes to software applications. When deciding whether to build custom software or buy a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product, organizations often focus on the amount and complexity of COTS customizations required, the time to develop custom applications and the relative total costs of ownership (TCO)....
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