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ACT-IAC ELC 2014 – Have we really been working on these same problems for 400 years?

This week I attended the 2014 Executive Leadership Conference hosted by ACT-IAC in Williamsburg, VA. While it was a familiar venue for the annual conference, and in some ways the topics of discussion were familiar as well – maybe too familiar, more on that later – the format was quite different from years past. This […]

Feedback: The Grit That Polishes the Stones

Take a moment to Google “Steve Jobs rock tumbler” and one of the first results returned will be a YouTube clip from “The Lost Interview” of Steve Jobs by Robert Cringely. That’s always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they’re passionate about. It’s that through the team, […]

Interoperability – Why is it Taking So Long?

AEGIS invests a lot of resources in support of advancing interoperability of electronic health information. The AEGIS DIL provides an unparalleled platform for helping EHR vendors, exchanges, standards organizations, and certification bodies test for interoperability and conformance. But there is one critical aspect of interoperability that no technology can fix – that is, the inertia of […]

Connecting with the Open Source Community at OSCON

This past week marked the first time AEGIS participated in the Open Source Convention (OSCON) at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. Mario Hyland and I participated and spoke on behalf of Open Health Tools (OHT) CONNECT Program, Open Source […]

Talking Health IT on Capitol Hill

Yesterday I participated on behalf of AEGIS in a briefing to U.S. House Representative Gene Green who represents the Houston area. I was invited by HIMSS along with executives from a few other member companies including Orion Health, Allscripts, Humetrix, and the Institute for e-Health Policy. The purpose of the session was to help Rep. Green […]

AEGIS Responds to the FDASIA Report

AEGIS provided comments on the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) Health IT Report: Proposed Risk Based Regulatory Framework (the “FDASIA Report”). We are assisting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office of The National Coordinator (ONC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other government, public and industry stakeholders as they […]

How Do We Move the Ball Forward on Achieving Interoperability?

On June 23, 2014, AEGIS was invited by Janet M. Marchibroda, Director, Health Innovation Initiative and Executive Director, CEO Council on Health and Innovation to participate in a roundtable discussion on Advancing Interoperability and Electronic Information Sharing To Support Improvements in Health and Health Care. Other distinguished participants included organizations such as the American Medical […]

SBC 2014 Recap

A few of us from AEGIS attended the 2014 Small Business Conference (SBC) last week hosted by ACT-IAC. This was our sixth year attending and, if I recall correctly, our third year as a proud Platinum Sponsor. The media covering the conference have written about a theme of how contract consolidation, also known as contract bundling, […]