Keep pulling the thread on Michael Meucci.
Large EHR vendors, including Epic, Oracle, and eClinicalWorks, have a vested interest in making data extraction difficult and actively lobby against interoperability enforcement.
Between 20% and 30% of the $6 trillion US healthcare budget is spent on SG&A (administrative costs).
The administrative cost of having healthcare in the United States is approximately $110 per member per month, excluding the cost of actual medical services.
An unnamed small Blue Cross Blue Shield plan spent $250 million in 2008 dollars to migrate its core claims system to Facets.
A small Blue Cross Blue Shield plan lost its largest employer customer, CVS, after the CVS-Aetna merger, despite having undertaken a multi-year, multi-million dollar system migration specifically to retain that customer.
The Obama administration's Meaningful Use program was intended to create transparency and improve quality in healthcare through investment in IT infrastructure.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched the Pioneer ACO program around 2011-2012.
IBM's formation of Watson Health, which combined Explorys, Phytel, Truven, and Merge, defined the healthcare AI business category.
IBM Consulting drove the market for population health platforms by advising all health systems to run RFPs to procure such a system.
Current healthcare interoperability standards work for point-to-point queries of a single medical record but cannot support the large-scale data transfers needed for population health analytics.
The US government needs to increase enforcement of existing healthcare data interoperability standards.
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) lacks use cases for payment and operations because providers and EHR vendors lobbied against their inclusion.