John Halamka – Via Video Conference
Worked under 5 different ONC Leaders
Keynote Address – A Perfect Storm for Innovation
Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2016 is becoming a perfect storm for innovation – changes in payment policy, new standards, and patient/family expectations are enabling an ecosystem of apps that will change healthcare IT capabilities. Dr. Halamka will review where we’ve been, where we’re going, and how we’ll get there.
Consistent Ideas:
- Interoperability
- Engaging Consumers/Patients
Meaningful Use:
MU V1 was useful
MU2 Pre-supposed infrastructures that weren’t there.
eg. Using Direct protocols without a directory. Patient Consent.
Enabling Infrastructure is needed.
Now the push is to outcome-based approach rather than process-based.
More flexibility. Enabling Innovation.
CMS driving with MACRA and MIPS
Interoperability
Remember the CCR v CCD wars – is your XML better than mine….
Vocabularies and Crosswalks are now in place.
Problem lists and Medications can now traverse EHRs.
The Challenge is that the basis is CCD/CCD-A. Straightforward to create but hard to parse (Too much optionality).
Need to simplify and reduce optionality. Argonaut is the result.
JASON – secret scientist group tasked to define how to fix healthcare.
Argonaut is making good progress.
Patients and Families are important for interoperability
Interoperability: Send to the Patient. Let them choose where they send it.
Patient mediated Information exchange is important.
Apple Strategy
- Health kit
- Research Kit
- Care Kit
All on your phone and in your home. You decide who you share what data elements with.
Care Kit – Includes subjective data.
Care plans and care plan tracking.
Too much data – not enough wisdom
What are the actionable issues that need to be addressed.
Collect data but only alert on actionable changes.
Focus on the wellness of the patient at home.
Requires Patient Generated Data as well as EMR data.
Cloud and Mobile
Doctors want Agile EHRs
Cloud-based, web accessible EHRs on a subscription basis is attractive.
AWS will sign a BAA.
Fixing MU
140 elements needed for Meaningful use certification for each encounter. Clinical Quality measures. 40% of clinicians feel burned out.
EHR 80% Adoption. But 453 clicks to admit a patient.
Value-based purchasing
Do we have the tools we need.
most tools are developed in PowerPoint….
Citrix is NOT a mobile app!
Cloud/Mobile – We need to accept that risk can never be zero.
Interoperability: We can do reasonable push but not enough infrastructure for pull.
What can we do better?
Patient Generated data going from device to phone to EHR.
I2B2 is available for Free. Querying datasets across systems exist today. Barriers are policy and politics.
Average cost of a data breach is $300 per record breached.
Meaningful Use
MU has run its course.
Doctors are burned out.
Doctors will consider – Pay for Quality. Give them flexibility.
Process does not equal outcomes.
Declare victory on MU and move to a focus on outcomes.
Certification has run it’s course.
We now have such a burdensome level of certification that it takes 2-3 years to deal with certification criteria.
Innovation agenda has been co-opted by the certification rules.
Information Blocking
“like the Loch Ness monster”
What we need are the technology infrastructures.
- National Provider Directory
- Voluntary Patient Id
- Trust fabric
The Future
Team-based workflows.
Teams including patient and families.
Return innovation to the private sector.
Time for Government to define outcomes and hand over to private sector to innovate.
Outcomes need to include patient and family input
MA created Provider participation Agreement to enable a Trust Fabric. This is a great role for State organizations.
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Mark Scrimshire
Health & Cloud Technology Consultant
Mark is available for challenging assignments at the intersection of Health and Technology using Big Data, Mobile and Cloud Technologies. If you need help to move, or create, your health applications in the cloud let’s talk.
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I am currently HHS Entrepreneur-in-Residence and CMS BlueButton Innovator working on an assignment to update BlueButton for Medicare Beneficiaries.
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