Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability. – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/5 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Shane McNamee MD (@shanemcnamee_md) from @bpmplushealth and Dalton Ruer (@QlikDork) on the topic “Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability.”

“If you don’t manufacture a quality product all you’ve got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.” – Eliyahu M. Goldratt

In case you haven’t noticed, our healthcare system is in perilous trouble. Costs have increased 31x over the last 30 years. Have there been accompanying quality gains from those investments? Well that is very difficult to quantify due in large part to 2 main factors:

  1. The increasing volume of noisy, disconnected, old healthcare data.
  2. A knowledge poor operational system that can’t recognize event driven risk signals to identify patients early in the disease process before costs and suffering explode.

Or put more simply, all of healthcare’s key actors (patient, provider, payer, researcher) go to work every day in a data rich, information poor, and process agnostic environment. One which doesn’t track and optimize the flow of our work (i.e. quality care outcomes) and is unable to determine if, and when, critical patient journeys have started or stopped.

As consumers, we have seen our buying experience revolutionized in terms of choice, access & traceability, in everything other than healthcare. “Your order is 5.7 miles away on Bob’s truck and will be delivered in 1 hour and 17 minutes. Press here to be notified when Bob takes 10 steps out of his truck towards your door.” Why should buying & delivering quality healthcare be any different than reliably buying and delivering shoes? Why should you be able to select a vacation property halfway around the world, including 123 verified client reviews, and know the cost to the penny, yet not be offered the same options in healthcare?

Our industry has spent the last 20 years trying to solve patient centric interoperability.  While we’ve made great strides with #FHIR data standards, we still have a major flow problem in healthcare that impacts every aspect of quality. On the floor of the recent #HIMSS21 interoperability showcase, it became painfully obvious that we solutionists were all only solving small parts of the patient centric interoperability problem.  As we get our access to event driven, clean FHIR data; we now need to turn our attention towards using it to beneficially constrain patient care journeys across boundaries.

Other industries instruct us that if we are to fix patient flow, then we must broaden & refocus the interoperability definition to include all end to end activities in discreet patient journeys. In an attempt to right the ship, our community is working on an updated definition for full cycle, purchased care interoperability.

Join us for this week’s #HITsm chat where we’ll discuss the following questions and topics.

Topics for this week’s #HITsm Chat:

T1: How would the healthcare experience change if Providers & Payers were able to disseminate best practices & processes more rapidly than the current 17 year lifecycle? #HITsm

T2: What role have data & process standards played in simplifying end to end flow in other industries? #HITsm

T3: Why is it so much more difficult to buy healthcare in an open marketplace, than it is anywhere else we make purchases? #HITsm

T4: How are your organizations, or the ones you work with, ensuring flow between healthcare systems for value based care payments?  #HITsm

T5: How can data, knowledge, and end-to-end process automations improve the flow of quality healthcare as a product? How can they coordinate it with existing healthcare standards? #HITsm

Bonus: What have other marketspaces done to reliably automate flow across disconnected ecosystems?  #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule

11/12 – Building a Health IT Startup in a Highly Competitive Marketplace
Hosted by Kelly Benning (@KellyBChurch)

11/19 – Parking Lot Healthcare: Is It Here to Stay?
Hosted by Dessiree Paoli (@dessiree_paoli) from @InterlaceHealth

11/26 – Thanksgiving – No Chat

12/3 – Discrimination in Healthcare
Hosted by Rachel Miller (@ray_hmiller) from @HealthcareScene

12/10 – TBD
Hosted by TBD

12/17 – TBD
Hosted by Maram Museitif (@MaramMPH)

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

If you’re searching for the latest #HITsm chat, you can always find the latest #HITsm chat and schedule of chats here.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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