Informonster Podcast
Welcome to the Informonster Podcast, a podcast about the Healthcare IT industry hosted by Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture. This podcast fosters an educational and professional discussion about healthcare information technology, including events in the industry, interviews with thought leaders, and much more! Have a topic you want discussed on the podcast? Email us at informonster@clinicalarchitecture.com.
Episodes
34 episodes
Episode 34: 2024 Data Quality Report
In this episode of The Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp and Clinical Architecture’s Vice President of Marketing, Jaime Lira, dive into the insights from the 2024 Data Quality Report. As they explore key trends from this ...
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Episode 34
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33:16
Episode 33: Data Quality in Healthcare: How PIQI Measures and Assesses Data
Are you tired of dealing with unreliable data that hinders your decision-making process? Join Charlie Harp, the host of the Informonster Podcast, as he explores issues impacting data quality and explains how Simple Assessment Modules (SAMs) fun...
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Episode 33
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22:54
Episode 32: Data Quality in Healthcare: Building the PIQI Taxonomy
In the third installment of the Data Quality in Healthcare series, Charlie Harp explores the taxonomy of the PIQI Framework. He breaks down the primary categories of 1.) Delivery and 2.) Intrinsic Issues, and shows how the subcate...
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Episode 32
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Episode 31: Data Quality in Healthcare: Decoding the PIQI Framework
Tune in as Charlie Harp unveils the rationale behind the Patient Information Quality Improvement’s (PIQI) streamlined data model, and explains how it turns complex patient information into an organized format for analysis. The next episode will...
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Episode 31
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Episode 30: Data Quality in Healthcare: Inside the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) Framework
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...
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Episode 30
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24:51
Episode 29: Data Quality in Healthcare
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 Ch...
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Episode 29
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15:23
Episode 28: Documentation in the OR with AORN
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 work...
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Episode 28
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Episode 27: How Datapult is Tackling the Challenge of Electronic Lab Reporting
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 C...
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Episode 27
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47:13
Episode 26: Discussing Data Quality with Charlie Harp
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 ...
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Episode 26
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27:21
Episode 25: The CDC Shares the Success of Collaboration During a Crisis
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...
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Episode 25
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50:36
Episode 24: Standardizing Health Data with OMOP's Common Data Model
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 pleas...
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Episode 24
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15:06
Episode 23: Discussing Gender Harmony
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 V...
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Episode 23
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57:24
Episode 22: Talking Interoperability and Trust with Lyniate
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...
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Episode 22
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49:52
Episode 21: Lab Data Interoperability
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 ...
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Episode 21
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18:02
Episode 20: Working Towards Price Transparency in Healthcare
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...
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Episode 20
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17:00
Episode 19: mCODE, CodeX and Accelerating Healthcare Innovation – Part 2
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 ben...
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Episode 19
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22:22
Episode 18: mCODE, CodeX and Accelerating Healthcare Innovation – Part 1
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 Clin...
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Episode 18
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37:09
Episode 17: Reimagining Public Health Surveillance and Reporting with Dr. Donald Rucker
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 positi...
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Episode 17
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40:01
Episode 16: Living On The Fringes with Semantic Ambiguity
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...
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Episode 16
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26:11
Episode 15: CommonWell Health Alliance and the Mission to Bring People and Data Together
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 ...
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Episode 15
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46:37
Episode 14: The Impact of Logica and How the Healthcare IT Industry Can Come Together, Part 2
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 M...
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Episode 14
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40:27
Episode 13: The Impact of Logica and How the Healthcare IT Industry Can Come Together, Part 1
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 M...
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Episode 13
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25:40
Episode 12: Healthcare Terminology Standardization and Normalization
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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Episode 12
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17:46
Episode 11: A FHIRside Chat
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, ...
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Episode 11
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42:21
Episode 10: The Architecture of Intolerance: Discussing How Healthcare IT Documents Substance Intolerances and Allergies
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...
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Episode 10
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29:57
