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It’s Vegas Baby

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Feb 29, 2016 | Archives

As we all know, Vegas is bigger than life. High rollers, over-the-top shows and extravagant restaurants. As HIMSS returns to the Strip, can we expect the conference to live up to what we all expect of Vegas? With over 40,000 health IT professionals expected to descend...

Putting Interoperability on FHIR

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jan 27, 2016 | Healthcare IT

The release of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation marks a dramatic shift from focus on Meaningful Use to incenting all stakeholders to fix our interoperability problem. While the HITECH act moved the nation’s...

Predicting the Future: What to Look for in 2016

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jan 20, 2016 | Archives

The role of a prognosticator is to accurately predict the future. Although many have tried to predict the trend of the stock market, an imminent earthquake, or even the end of the world, soothsayers rarely get their predictions correct. That said, they are very...

Accurately Predicting the Future

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 4, 2015 | Analytics

Joe Maddon, the Cubs manager, is chomping on the end of his water bottle. It is the bottom of the ninth inning and Fenway Park is a screaming madhouse. It is game seven of the 2015 World Series and the Cubbies have a one run lead over the Boston Red Sox. With two men...

Our Tower of Babel

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 5, 2013 | Healthcare IT

The Bible describes why humans speak so many languages: The narrative of the city of Babel is recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the East, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make...