Donald Rucker

Combining medical informatics, life science, microeconomics and information theory to advance the practice of medicine...

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#QualCon25 @DrOzCMS - the brilliant Chris Klomp @1klomp exploring 72 hour payment to Medicare providers for truly immediately releasing full medical record digitally👏 Get the data - all the EHI out of the EMR via modern usable APIs and not faux interoperability such as #TEFCA IAS. Follow @JoshCMandel for ongoing details here.

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@HHS_TechPolicy Tom Keane is a wonderful choice for ASTP / ONC National Coordinator. Richly experienced clinician with real policy chops on lots of issues AND started out as a computer program in C before med school!!

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@healthapiguy @mickytripathi1 @JoshCMandel is spot-on. Interop should use modern APIs and secure patient consent with assumption of "zero trust". How do #TEFCA's "just trust me" attestation and cumbersome broker network protect patient privacy in RLS, queries, and data transmission? #TEFCA makes patient friendly digital business models relying on low-friction real-time APIs difficult - is that the goal?? @ONC_HealthIT with lots to do here.

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@aboehler @realDonaldTrump @marcorubio @aboehler Right person - very smart very practical very insightful.

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@mickytripathi1 @IndianaHIE @Regenstrief What a hoot! Groundwork for a great success and still a great pattern for extending HIEs.

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And for some fun with the irrepressible @katmcdavitt and the extraordinary @lisabari - a joint interview with @Jonathan_Bush on the Healthtech Talk Show. https://t.co/DNL96CCWj4

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The big picture on prior authorization - reasoning by analogy: Plate tectonics and the new CMS prior authorization rule | https://t.co/1Tz0tbwvGM via @chiefhealthcareexecutive

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Had the pleasure of doing a thought provoking interview with Kyle Murphy of Healthcare Strategies on an API First Healthcare Economy might look like and where we are today while at @HIMSS - https://t.co/xV1r1dGtiw via @YouTube

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How market forces, regulations have worked against interoperability https://t.co/S83q92Jgke

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@mandl @theNAMedicine @AMIAinformatics Congratulations Ted!! Well deserved. All of us who were Ted’s trainees were incredibly fortunate.

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##TEFCA and the digital economy - thinking in specifics about what we need to truly improve #health (and no surprise some competition would help not hurt) @ONC_HealthIT
https://t.co/Gtuf57E8lC

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6.20 for you to comment on @ONC_HealthIT #ONCHTI1. Should #TEFCA get IB exception for 1990s IHE. Should @CDCgov use std APIs or one-offs in every EHR? Should providers have to report competitor AI / API use to their EHR? Some thoughts: https://t.co/ZYJRCE0KaA

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@ONC_HealthIT #ONCHTI1 - lots to unpack – should TEFCA’s brokered non-FHIR doc exchange get IB pass – will @CDCgov’s ECR spec need major rewrite of EHRs – should EHR vendors track provider use of AI & APIs? Check out FHIR OGs @mandl @gotdan @joshcmandel https://t.co/tSFLozLnR5

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Healthcare price transparency is central to patient control of our bodies - just as with modern #FHIR APIs. Great to see @fatjoe @rickross305 @FrencHMonTanA @BustaRhymes supporting price transparency @PowertoPatnts in DC last night.

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Hoping to see everyone Feb 23-24 at Health Datapalooza via @academyhealth https://t.co/fLv9kOkixB

@rickysahu and I are doing a brand new format Unconference session at HDP on Friday the 24th FHIR: What it is and why are folks talking about. Inviting folks to join in on FHIR!!!

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Thinking about value and quality with our colleagues @AHIMAResources. https://t.co/mRpNjOmjMF

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Intrigued by using FHIR to rethink healthcare analytics? Check out my conversation with @rickysahu founder of #1upHealth discussing FHIR at scale.
https://t.co/8qfHTeBJI3

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@rickysahu @1up_health Amazing progress in rethinking how to use information in caring for patients. Ricky Congrats!

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Thinking about "big data" in healthcare made available by HL7 Bulk FHIR API standard in the @ONC_HealthIT Interop Rule. Nice interview https://t.co/YMbrOORPTR by @scottmace. Kudos to @mandl and @gotdan and team for all of their work over the years.

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@embimd @vumcdbmi @VUMChealth @VanderbiltU @embimd , congrats - with a view of the Parthenon no less.