CONQUER Part 4: Software Morality

As we've described in this CONQUER series (Part 1, Part 3), distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their intents via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, queries, and events. Let's briefly consider the nature … Continue reading CONQUER Part 4: Software Morality →

On the Tsunami of Consumer Health Apps Headed Our Way

[It is now June 2024, nearly four years since I wrote this post. Talk about a swing and a miss! In practice there are very few software applications actually using Patient Access APIs - not the tsunami I saw in my crystal ball. I need to do a post-mortem to figure out how I - … Continue reading On the Tsunami of Consumer Health Apps Headed Our Way →

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 →

Federated Identity: The Missing Link

With the new OpenID Connect for Identity Assurance standard out in draft there is only one puzzle piece remaining to fit to fully realize distributed identity management: an electronically verifiable trust registry of Identity Providers. And the Kantara Initiative is poised to provide it. To fully realize dynamic interoperability a user new to a digital … Continue reading Federated Identity: The Missing Link →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 8: Strategic Impacts, and Conclusion

This is the eighth and last in a series of posts (first, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade. The Strategic Business Impacts of our Technology Themes Having analyzed our five technology themes, and explored their operational impacts, let’s look at the strategic … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 8: Strategic Impacts, and Conclusion →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 7: Operational Impacts

This is the seventh 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 Operational Business Impacts of our Technology Themes Having analyzed our five technology themes, let’s look at how the technology tapestry we’ve woven from those interrelated … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 7: Operational Impacts →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 6: The Right-Sizing of Information Tools

This is the sixth 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 Right-Sizing of … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 6: The Right-Sizing of Information Tools →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 5: The Realization of Rapid Application Development

This is the fifth 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. At Last, the … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 5: The Realization of Rapid Application Development →

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 →