Time to Get Off the "Regulatory Reporting" Struggle Bus
It's easy to lose sight of the "Northern Star" in the healthcare analytics/data science industry. With the aide of a telescope, you'd find that…
How To Monitor Custom Healthcare Data ETLs Like a Boss
RE: A turn-key Qlik Sense application that displays ETL and Execution metrics and data for Epic Clarity/Caboodle/Cogito running on Microsoft SQL Server. Exchanging…
300 Lines of Python Code Press Ganey DOESN'T Want You To Know About
Press Ganey is not all that easy to work with as a 3rd-party vampire. (I MEAN VENDOR.) They're extremely strict in the data format they…
Dissatisfaction with Press Ganey's Patient Satisfaction
I'm (a little) Sorry, Press Ganey So recently I threw some shade at Press Ganey in a technical blog post about integrating their patient satisfaction…
Interoperability: Importing Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Data Into Epic's Data Warehouse
The Situation A couple of weeks ago, a colleague and I were tasked with extracting and integrating raw Press Ganey patient satisfaction data into Epic's…
Visualized: ED Throughput
Interoperability: Fetching Data from Athena's API and Integrating with Epic
Athena Health is a cloud-based EHR and billing company based out of Watertown, MA (Boston suburb) and run by Jonathan Bush. From what I've gathered…
Visualized: Blood Transfusions
Visualized: Diabetes Management
Data Science for Clinicians and Researchers, Part 0
Assessment Count with your fingers each of the following that apply: I know what software vendors my hospital uses. I've crunched data with Microsoft Excel.…
The Donald's Healthcare Reform. Translated.
I've taken the liberty of striking-through the bullshit fluff to make it easier to focus on the real proposals contained herein, along with my (mostly)…
Why Can't EHRs Talk To Each Other, Part 1
We humans have yet to develop the holy grail of describing and sharing biomedical data about ourselves in a way that is both human/computer-readable.…
It goes without saying that the topic of big data and predictive analytics in healthcare is, well, pretty big. And judging from press releases and…
Visualized: Readmissions
Healthcare Interoperability Enterprise Architecture
This is a diagram I created when I began at Anne Arundel Medical Center in the fall of 2015. While the architecture would go on…
DevOps at Anne Arundel Medical Center
Diagrams created with Gliffy Git-JIRA Team Workflow Git Flow…
Allscripts Integration Diagrams
Diagrams created for integrating with Allscripts EHR while working at the startup, Maven Medical. Use Cases API Sequence Diagram…