The thriving health care information technology industry is no longer news. But, much like the real estate market, there’s a crash coming, and soon.

The belief that a pure information technology professional, once trained, can fill the role of a Healthcare I.T. Subject Matter Expert is becoming more widely accepted, and if perpetuated, has the chance to create more issues than it solves.

After reading about the recent release of hospital charge data by CMS, I immediately thought of the “average Joe” trying to understand it.

In the almost two decades I've been a health and tech policy wonk, I've heard exactly two utterances that could and should be etched in medical economics stone:

Data integration is an important aspect of heath data management. However, it’s often overlooked as a core health care I.T. strategy. This is largely due to the fact that we’re used to dealing with data integration as tactical one-off projects, using whatever mechanisms work to solve the problem.

A recent Ovum study showed that almost 60% of employees bring some type of mobile device into the workplace. There are a few names for this, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC), Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP), User Introduces Unsecure Device onto My Network and Then Loses My Secure Data (UIUDOMNTLMSD).