By Buff Colchagoff – Every December I return to watching Home Alone. It is a holiday ritual and a reminder that chaos often begins with one small moment of disconnect. It makes for a delightful Christmas comedy, but it also resembles what many health organizations experience when they are left outside of broader interoperability networks.
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By Buff Colchagoff – The reindeer had a choice: join Santa now or wait to see if the idea took off. It’s not unlike the decision healthcare organizations face today: whether to join TEFCA and a QHIN now or adopt a wait-and-see approach. Both scenarios offer compelling reasons to leap early rather than lag behind. Let’s take a closer look through a Christmas lens.
By Buff Colchagoff – Much like the memorable journey of John Candy and Steve Martin in the beloved film “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” the path of Health IT’s national networks has been a tale of unexpected twists, turns, and surprising camaraderie.
By Buff Colchagoff – Reflecting on the past couple of years and the road ahead for HIEs, I’m reminded of the 1970s Christmas classic claymation story, “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” You may ask, “what can HIEs learn from a sappy, simplistic kids movie?” Put in the right light, there’s actually plenty of wisdom to be found.
By Buff Colchagoff – ’Tis the time of year when nativity scenes make their annual appearances around neighborhoods and churches. As we celebrate birth in this season, I want to reflect on the Health IT sector and the birth of modern information exchange – both the verb and the proper noun.
Buff Colchagoff of RosettaHealh helps us out with Day 4. Did you know that there has been a long-term debate about whether or not it’s “four calling birds” or “four colly birds” in the classic Twelve Days of Christmas? I only recently discovered this in doing research for…
Buff Colchagoff of RosettaHealth helps us out with Day 7. The line “seven swans a swimming” from the classic Twelve Days of Christmas has been on my mind lately. I see swans gliding past my house on the Chesapeake Bay during the day, and hear them always “cooing” at night, as I drift off to sleep. What does this have to do with Health IT?
Day 3: The era of health data exchange is going through transformation that is similar to Charles Dickens’ holiday classic “A Christmas Carol.” We have been faced with three ghosts of Christmas health data exchange that can show us the past, present, and future … and we should listen closely as Ebenezer Scrooge did in this timeless tale.