AJ Dandrea

It has been over twenty years since the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996. The first part of the acronym stands out to me because […]

In the last few decades, Pluto was declassified as a planet and categorized as something else–a dwarf planet. Basically, scientists acknowledged Pluto’s distinctive place in the universe and decided it […]

One of the big challenges in healthcare data-driven initiatives is the Swiss cheese phenomenon, which refers to a dataset that lacks specific content to inform, or to allow the information […]

Can we all agree that cloud technology offers tremendous benefits in platform and cost reduction? In my stewardship of the cloud for 3M Health Information Systems, I’ve also learned how […]

As a traditional technology leader, it took me a few years to accept the Cloud and its ability to provide the agility of “adding” storage to solve any problem quickly. […]

As patients become more involved in their health care, the technology industry will be forced to not only listen, but implement platforms that enable patient informed decisions on payment, treatment […]

What if the only way to create complete healthcare relationships among providers, payers, and patients required something different than what has been tried in the past? And, instead of policy […]

In 2015, I wrote about the challenges in delivering analytics using incomplete data. Has anything changed in the last year and a half? Originally, the intent of many of the […]

When we consider the complexity of systems and the challenges in making data-driven systems usable, it is easy to forget the principle of “real time.” As an industry, we hear […]

Computer and technology hosting in the last ten years can be categorized into three distinct relationships: Co-locations, managed services and the Cloud. It is a bit confusing to understand, but […]

As a technologist, I can recall with some detail the anxiety and friction around the year 2000. The technology industry was in a state of panic driven by speculation that […]

As the healthcare industry strives to converge all the data sources required to manage population health, the mass of data needed to do it well, and to both clinically and […]

Information technology planning in the 1990s and early 2000s involved forecasting capacity based upon detailed planning. Technologists would meet with business teams and supporting staff, and then whiteboard and spreadsheet […]

I guess I may be part of a revolution and that revolution is called “Scrum.” Like many health IT leaders who are challenged with an ever growing backlog of work, […]

Data as a career may be a bit ambiguous. How about looking for a career in data modeling, preserving, securing, delivering and making data readily available? Beyond the obvious solutions […]

Trust me when I tell you that, as a healthcare IT technologist, most of us are excited about your projects when we first learn about them. You may have noticed […]