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The impending shift toward API-based data exchange can dramatically improve data sharing and interoperability. Doing so, however, requires “careful planning and execution,” according to Jeffrey Brown, who provides helpful guidelines in this guest blog.
Implementing SSO — “It’s really a no-brainer”
Waiting for the dust to settle
His formula for success
The CIO network — “I definitely have a few phone-a-friends”
Teaching at Northeastern & Brandeis
Keeping up with changing healthcare models
“There’s no other place I’d rather be.”
The “transformational” Mass HIway
Merrimack Valley’s single-node model
The MU 2 Bucket
Eyeing 100% CPOE adoption
Optimization steering committees
Starting CIO role as Paragon went live
“Boots on the ground”
Going live with McKesson Paragon
Juggling multiple ambulatory EHRs — “The interoperability equation has become a lot less difficult.”
Readmission prevention
Forming an ICO — not an ACO
Merrimack Valley collaborative
HIEs — “It’s never a one-size-fits-all”
About Lawrence General
Affiliations with Beth Israel Deaconess & Tufts
Population health — “Connecting the community”
Linking hospitalists & PCPs
Working with affiliated docs — “It has to be grounded in collaboration.”
Physician-led committees
Finding “quick wins”
