When looking for a practical way to assess the quality of patient information from external sources, Charlie Harp found that existing frameworks were either too general or too specific to certain databases or schemas. So, he created the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework. In the second episode of the "Data Quality in Healthcare" series, Charlie gives a high-level overview of the PIQI framework and shares some use cases for this structure. Tune in as he shares the ultimate goal for the framework which is to enhance the quality of patient information to provide better outcomes and care across the healthcare industry.

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It’s time to take a closer look at healthcare data quality. This episode is the beginning of a series related to the challenges that all healthcare professionals face in gathering, organizing, and using patient data. Join the conversation as Charlie Harp shares how we got to this place as an industry and a solution for measuring the quality of patient information. Listen now to learn about the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework and how it can be used to help healthcare professionals make better informed decisions.

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In this episode of The Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity, Inc., (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) with over 25 years of informatics experience. Janice shares how AORN is working to enhance workflows with surgical schedules and perioperative nursing. She also gives insights into how AORN collaborates with healthcare institutions to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to new procedures, CPT codes, and preference cards. 

Charlie and Janice explore the unexpected ways data quality impacts healthcare and how AORN's contributions are helping healthcare professionals maintain the gold standard in procedure lists and standard terminologies. 

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In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp sits down with Patina Zarcone, Director, and Millie Malai, Technical Project Manager of Datapult, an APHL company. They discuss how Datapult and Clinical Architecture came together to create a system that would get lab data to public health faster, especially during the pandemic. They discuss the impact of this system on the timeliness of data for emerging infectious diseases, and how converting data from CSV to HL7 v2.5.1 was a game changer to ensure that public health received the highest quality data.

About Patina Zarcone
Patina (Zarcone) Gagne serves as the Association of Public Health Laboratories’ (APHL) Director of Datapult, a new APHL company, and has been with APHL approaching 21 years.  When joining APHL in 2003, Patina was the only informatics staff member focused primarily on helping governmental public health laboratories acquire laboratory information management systems.  Today, she is running Datapult, a company that made a major impact on the pandemic by reporting COVID laboratory results electronically to public health.  Prior to her tenure at APHL, Patina worked first in biotechnology as a bench scientist in gene therapy for Biogen Inc., in Cambridge MA then went on to work for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, State Laboratory Institute helping run operations for the mosquito borne disease surveillance program. 

Patina has an undergraduate degree (BA) in Biology from Boston University and a Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH), specializing in Health Service Administration also from Boston University.

Patina lives in Newbury, MA right next to the Atlantic ocean with her husband, Joel Gagne Esq. and 4 children.

About Millie Malai
Millie is the Technical Project Manager for Datapult and oversees technical development and implementation across Datapult’s service, including Expanded ELR. She has been in the field of public health informatics for over a decade, with experience in syndromic surveillance systems, laboratory information systems, immunization registries, electronic laboratory reporting, and health data interoperability. She holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in applied public health informatics from Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. 

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie discusses the importance of data quality and how it impacts the results of any analysis or decision-making process. He also shares insights from our inaugural survey which indicates that the industry recognizes the importance of data quality but acknowledges that it is a challenging effort.

Download the Data Quality Survey Report here: https://clinicalarchitecture.com/data-quality-survey/ 

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In this episode Charlie Harp talks with Lori Moore, Public Health Analyst and Stuart Myerburg, Informatics Team Lead with the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) group, as they discuss what it’s like managing data around vaccines, the challenges they faced and opportunities they discovered while going through the COVID-19 crisis. 

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie provides a high-level primer on Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP). He also discusses terminologies and adding data into an OMOP data repository. To learn more about OMOP please visit ohdsi.org. 

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On this episode of the Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp is joined by Janet Campbell, Software Developer and Vice President of Patient Engagement at Epic, Chris Grasso, Chief Information Officer at Fenway Health and Carol Macumber, Executive Vice President at Clinical Architecture to discuss the HL7 Gender Harmony Project. 

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On this Episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Drew Ivan, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyniate, about cross-organization interoperability, patient interoperability  from consumer devices, why we interoperate, and how all of it affects our relationship with trust.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie is on the road talking about the relationship between clinical lab data and interoperability. He talks about LOINC, as well as the use of lab data in AI and machine learning, and some of the challenges faced in these applications.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about the purpose of the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Initiative, how price transparency would be implemented in our current system, as well as the difficulties we would have to face in order to achieve it. 

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This two-part episode of the Informonster Podcast features Steve Bratt and Carmela Couderc from MITRE, along with Charlie Harp, Carol Macumber, and Shaun Shakib.  The group discusses why a community-based approach, while foreign, is so beneficial to the industry, busting the myth that organizations can contribute to the standard without exposing their own secrets.  They also talk about the future of mCode. 

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This two-part episode of the Informonster Podcast features Steve Bratt and Carmela Couderc from MITRE, along with Charlie Harp, Carol Macumber (EVP – Client Services at Clinical Architecture), and Shaun Shakib (Chief Informatics Officer at Clinical Architecture). Steve, Health Technology Principle at MITRE, is the Program manager of the Common Oncology Data Elements Extensions (CodeX) HL7 FHIR Accelerator. Carmela, is a Clinical Informaticist at MITRE, working across CodeX use cases. Steve and Carmela take a deep dive into the history and accomplishments of the growing CodeX community that is working together to leverage standardized collection and exchange of oncology data via the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) HL7 FHIR Standard for Trial Use. 

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Does Healthcare leverage public health data effectively? On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Dr. Don Rucker, former National Coordinator for the ONC, joins Charlie Harp to discuss how Health Information Exchanges are in a unique position to re-imagine and pioneer broad-based public health approaches to data. 

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp discusses the importance of attaching accurate details to terms in a system in order to provide a window into the thought process of the scribe. He discusses treating term definitions as personal notes and how doing so keeps the system from having the same term defined in 73 different ways.  He also explains how having this infrastructure in place could mitigate the effects of Clinical Emergencies like COVID-19.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp meets with CommonWell Health Alliance Executive Director, Paul Wilder, and Director of Product, Liz Buckle, to discuss the organization’s mission to provide universal access to data at the point of care for the right clinician and the right patient. While the goal is simple, getting there is incredibly complex. Charlie explains why Clinical Architecture decided to join this alliance, and both Paul and Liz talk about how they’ve been able to connect and share data through their growing nationwide network with the help of their members and initiatives like the CommonWell Connector™ program. The group also shared insights on how federal regulations have affected the push to universal interoperability and the importance of ensuring data quality along the way.

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Charlie Harp is joined by Logica’s Chair of the Board, Stan Huff,  Chair of the Nursing LOINC Subcommittee, Susan Matney, along with Clinical Architecture’s very own Chief Informatics Officer Shaun Shakib and EVP of Client Services Carol Macumber to discuss the history and impact of Logica on the Healthcare IT Industry. In this second part of the Informonster Podcast’s first two-part series, they discuss the importance of information modeling’s interaction with terminology, how a standard by itself can only be effective if we all agree to follow it, treating decision support like a medical device, how Logica is changing, and how decision support can ease provider burden in the trenches with open and reliable data.

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Charlie Harp is joined by Logica’s Chair of the Board, Stan Huff,  Chair of the Nursing LOINC Subcommittee, Susan Matney, along with Clinical Architecture’s very own Chief Informatics Officer Shaun Shakib and EVP of Client Services Carol Macumber to discuss the history and impact of Logica on the Healthcare IT Industry. In this first part of The Informonster Podcast’s first two-part series, they discuss Logica’s growth and accomplishments, and how, even with COVID-19, Logica gets the medical community to leave their “silos” and buy in while remaining nimble and responsive.

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In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about the notions of standardization and normalization,  what they mean in the context of healthcare terminologies, and their relative pros and cons.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp discusses FHIR, from its design, history and implementations to its unique quirks and possible future uses, with Clinical Architecture’s own FHIR Services Product Manager, Carol Graham, and EVP of Client Services, Carol Macumber.

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In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about the origins and importance of allergies and tolerances in Healthcare IT, as well as what makes them unique from other terms within the system. He then discusses how different systems handle allergies and intolerance as well as the issues that come up with them and how he thinks they could be solved.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp is joined by Randy Woodward, Carol Macumber and Victor Lee, MD,  to talk about the COVID 19 Interoperability Alliance, an initiative designed to provide value sets and resources to identify, understand and monitor COVID-19 information patterns. They discuss why the Alliance was formed, the problems the industry is currently facing and how the Alliance can help combat the pandemic.

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 Episode 8: What is the USCDI? In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), how the 21st Century Cures Act brought it into being, an overview of the data classes and elements, and some considerations that could impact its success. 

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp discusses the history of ICD-10. He talks about how it was created and evolved with the healthcare industry, and what he thinks the next iteration could do to improve for the industry going forward.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about how healthcare evolves from the edges, three core types of patient data, and the three takeaways from the COVID-19 Pandemic that can help us be more prepared for the future.

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