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The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition
2+ day, 15+ min ago (1861+ words) All the kids went back to school this week, which means so did we! Fall is the busy season in this industry, with a long syllabus already lined up. Brad went to DC for the one year anniversary of the…...
If Judy Had the Courage
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (125+ words) Health API Guy If Judy Had the Courage A short eulogy for the era when software developers weren’t afraid to make things look insane. Limited post today, as an unexpected nail in tire derailed my evening. In the Epic Alumni…...
The Wrong Yardstick - by Brendan Keeler
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (775+ words) Software is just a set of tools to solve someone else's problem. You can't build the right tool for a problem you can't feel. Trouble is, it turns out we’re pretty uniformly bad at manufacturing that understanding for lives we…...
Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized!
5+ day, 9+ min ago (871+ words) Legal laypeople (myself included) tend to overgeneralize litigation outcomes. A decision gets compressed into a headline, and before you know it, the headline outruns the record it was built on. The Amazon v. Perplexity opinion that came down August 4 is undeniably…...
Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL
6+ day, 24+ min ago (136+ words) Health API Guy The location isn’t all that surprising, because it wasn’t really being meaningfully contested: Health Gorilla moved for centralization. It asked for its own backyard, which makes sense as it’s headquartered in Coral Gables, with five of the…...
Forecast from Verona - by Brendan Keeler
1+ week, 1+ day ago (188+ words) Forecast from Verona Health API Guy The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways in their annual pseudo-roadmap: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. I thought I’d get through the implications of the monumental…...
Three Cases Walk Into a Docket
1+ week, 3+ day ago (243+ words) Holy hell, when it rains, it pours. Yesterday I’m twiddling my thumbs going through 15 year old regulatory advisory meeting transcripts, and then bam - we have an all-timer in terms of court updates. Let’s get the sad news out of the…...
Stacked Deck, Bad Hand
1+ week, 3+ day ago (603+ words) We’re back in a rapid rulemaking era. Despite the deregulatory prerogative and the great lull of 2025, Trump II has proven no less prolific than late Biden admin, at least in regards to health technology: CMS-0057 deadlines are landing on payers…...
The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today
1+ week, 5+ day ago (168+ words) Health API Guy The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today A 27-year-old time capsule shows Epic licensing Tapestry to the company that eventually became a payer archrival Did you know TriZetto (the most popular system of record for payers, now…...
July Monthly Review: Not So NEISS?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1755+ words) The line is fine between the various disciplines of population health and invasive, involuntary surveillance. Public health, population health, care management, disease registries, quality improvement…these are all cut from the same cloth: take a group of people, sort them…...