Health Care Blog October 17, 2025
Jacob Reider

I haven’t blogged this yet, which kinda surprises me, since I find myself describing it often.
Let’s start with an overview. We can look at health information through the lens of a lifecycle.

The promise of Health Information Technology has been to help us – ideally to achieve optimal health in the people we serve.

The concept @ the beginning of the HITECH act was: “ADOPT, CONNECT, IMPROVE.”

These were the three pillars of the Meaningful Use Incentive programs.

Adopt technology so we can connect systems and therefore improve health.

Simple, yes?

Years later, one can argue that adoption and even connection have (mostly) been accomplished.

But the bridge between measurement and health improvement isn’t one we can easily...

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