How to Comply with the HIPAA Individual Right of Access in your ONC Cures Act-mandated FHIR APIs

In my last post, I spoke to our need to handle sophisticated consent cases ONC Cures Act API compliance for 1/1/21, including patient representatives of various kinds.    The mandate has de-scoped data segmentation and redaction for sensitive conditions, as too big a lift for the industry, leaving APIs to deliver all scoped data or none … Continue reading How to Comply with the HIPAA Individual Right of Access in your ONC Cures Act-mandated FHIR APIs

Your ONC Cures Act APIs and Managing Consent as Policy

The ONC Cures Act final rule is forcing payers and providers to come to grips with automating consent management and enforcement for data access.  The best architectural solution to address it is Policy Based Access Control, or PBAC. PBAC is a kind of Attribute-Based Access Control, or ABAC.  Unlike Role-Based Access control, in which a … Continue reading Your ONC Cures Act APIs and Managing Consent as Policy

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 4: The Primacy of Decision Contexts

This is the fourth in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. The Primacy of … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 4: The Primacy of Decision Contexts

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information

This is the third in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape and inform information technology work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative

This is the second in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. In today's … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative

Your Knowledge Strategy: And Magic Filled the Air

In my last post, 'You Don't Need a Data Strategy, You Need A Knowledge Strategy,' I painted a high level sketch of why we need knowledge strategies, and the key features they need to address. I skipped ahead pretty quickly, rambling on<the time is now to sing my song /Zep> to cover a breadth of … Continue reading Your Knowledge Strategy: And Magic Filled the Air

You Don’t Need a Data Strategy, You Need a Knowledge Strategy

In my post "Throw Off Those 1960's Data Strategy Shackles" I suggested that the days of the Inmon/Kimball model strategy for analytics are past, sketched out a couple of notes on making events the atoms in our data strategies, and promised a longer answer to what our future states should look like. Continuing on that … Continue reading You Don’t Need a Data Strategy, You Need a Knowledge Strategy

The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough

Some time between 2010 and 2013 I began thinking differently about integration, both among components of distributed applications and among distributed applications per se. I know the rough time span because I published an integration reference architecture here in 2010 that did not feature the new ideas, and one in 2013 that did - well, … Continue reading The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough

At Any Event, or at Every Event?

Still on the trail of conceptual clarity around events. In the last post in this - this is the third, so let's say 'series' - we discussed the difference in knowledge and data. I used the familiar-to-most query against a relational database to illustrate the difference. Let's return to that example for a moment. The … Continue reading At Any Event, or at Every Event?

The Event Re-Renaissance Continued: Knowledge vs. Data

In my last post, we started digging into the re-emergence of complex event processing and event-driven architectures which has been enabled by the latest generation of stateful stream processors such as Spark Streaming, Samza, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, and Google DataFlow. Today let's start to develop a clear line of sight into the underlying conceptual … Continue reading The Event Re-Renaissance Continued: Knowledge vs. Data