Brendan Keeler
@healthapiguy
interoperability practice lead at https://www.htdhealth.com advisor flexpa, elion, revero, vitalize. formerly zus, redox, carequality advisory board, epic
"I... drink... your... features" Everyone love to complain about EHRs. The lock-in, the bad APIs, the dated UI, the integration fees, the self-preferencing. But EHRs aren't an outlier. They are following the playbook. Check out the latest article in the comments to understand…
A uniform truth that will play true: in three to five years, we will look back at the infrastructure we're building today and say "how stupid were we". HL7v2, CDA, FHIR...whatever we think is "the" solution will be superseded. And we'll certainly do that about FHIR. Each…
Going to write more about this in a new article soon, but I objectively love this strategy for athenahealth. Athena isn't making another foray into inpatient, I would hazard, so you have to bet on something other than the existing tailwind of the past 20 years (continued…
Lot of chatter already about the 2026 Medicare and Medicaid Physician Fee Schedule, but lemme peddle a few interoperability thoughts and takes. 1. The obvious FHIR forward nature of it 135 references to FHIR! There are so many references to FHIR because the CMS is dedicated to…
Lot of chatter already about the 2026 Medicare and Medicaid Physician Fee Schedule, but lemme peddle a few interoperability thoughts and takes. 1. The obvious FHIR forward nature of it 135 references to FHIR! There are so many references to FHIR because the CMS is dedicated to…