A FOIA request got us a copy of the January MITRE Corp. report on interoperability. The 42-page report recommended that the VA stand firm in demanding that Cerner maximize ease of access to its data for building third-party APIs and apps for future community innovations. It also called for holding Cerner accountable for reducing the administrative burden in clinician workflow with the objective of increasing efficiency and that the system have the capacity for bulk data export based on standards, with no proprietary formats, and a “push” capability to insert patient data back into the VA database.
The VA concurred with all the recommendations in the report, and most were included in the final contract signed in May.
… The report also reveals that the 12 private-sector members of the review panel included health IT luminaries such as Cris Ross, CIO of the Mayo Clinic, Chuck Christian of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, Kenneth Mandl of Harvard Medical School — and Bruce Moskowitz, an internist who belongs to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club.
… In its 3rd Quarter earnings report last week (a small earnings shortfall led to a 11 percent stock price hit on Friday), Cerner said it expected to ramp up work at year’s end on the initial four VA sites, which are to go live in 2020.
It also reported that everything was going fine on the MHS Genesis project, despite reports of a negative preliminary review by independent inspectors at Madigan Army Medical Center, the largest of the four initial rollout sites. “The project is moving along well and is on track,” Chief Financial Officer Marc Naughton said. “We believe we’re on target with what we’ve been tasked to do.”
Article link: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-ehealth/2018/10/29/the-potential-downside-of-social-determinants-392472
