Informonster Podcast

Informonster Podcast

Welcome to the Informonster Podcast, a podcast about the Healthcare IT industry hosted by Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture. This podcast fosters an educational and professional discussion about healthcare information technology, including events in the industry, interviews with thought leaders, and much more! Have a topic you want discussed on the podcast? Email us at informonster@clinicalarchitecture.com.

Episodes

May 28, 2025 37 mins

In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Clinical Architecture CEO Charlie Harp hands over the mic to our VP of Marketing, Jaime Lira, for a conversation about the evolution of the PIQI Framework. From its early beginnings as a taxonomy to its growing momentum across the industry, Charlie shares how PIQI has progressed, what’s coming next for the PIQI Alliance, and why standardizing patient data quality is more important than e...

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In this episode of The Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp sits down with Michael Klotz, Founder and CEO of Velox, to explore how Velox is helping payers move toward smarter, more streamlined access to clinical data. They discuss how the Velox platform helps payers benchmark and improve data quality, and how shared standards and smart analytics are laying the groundwork for a more connected, responsive healthcare system. The episode...

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Join Charlie Harp and Carol Macumber, EVP of Client Services at Clinical Architecture and Chair-Elect of the HL7 Board of Directors, as they unpack Carol's informatics work and her participation in HL7 through the years. From Carol's early days in informatics to leading initiatives like Gender Harmony, this episode takes a deep dive into the organization’s efforts to standardize healthcare data exchange.

They break down th...

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In this episode of The Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks with John A. Short, MBA, MS-IS, FEMA PDS, CPHIMS, Senior Executive Service (SES), Director, Federal & Commercial Interoperability of Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) Office and John Rancourt, Deputy Director of ASTP’s Office of Standards, Certification, and Analysis. They discuss how the government, specifically the DoD and VA, are addressing ...

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Charlie Harp is joined by Dr. Victor Lee, VP of Clinical Informatics at Clinical Architecture, to take a deep dive into how a methodical approach to value set creation and maintenance builds a solid foundation for downstream data analysis and improved healthcare outcomes. 

Dr. Lee introduces the 6 Cs Framework he developed to evaluate value set quality through dimensions like clarity, completeness, congruency, consistency,...

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October 29, 2024 33 mins

In this episode of The Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp and Clinical Architecture’s Vice President of Marketing, Jaime Lira, dive into the insights from the 2024 Data Quality Report.  

As they explore key trends from this year’s survey, the discussion highlights the increasing recognition of data quality's critical role in healthcare, impacting everything from population health to AI initiatives.  

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Are you tired of dealing with unreliable data that hinders your decision-making process? Join Charlie Harp, the host of the Informonster Podcast, as he explores issues impacting data quality and explains how Simple Assessment Modules (SAMs) function within the PIQI framework.

In the final episode of our Data Quality in Healthcare - PIQI Framework series, Charlie guides you through the intricacies of SAMs which are specialized tests ...

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In the third installment of the Data Quality in Healthcare series, Charlie Harp explores the taxonomy of the PIQI Framework. He breaks down the primary categories of 1.) Delivery and 2.) Intrinsic Issues, and shows how the subcategories a.) availability b.) accuracy c.) conformity and d.) plausibility are used to analyze and address data quality challenges.

Come back for part four where Charlie talks about Simple Assessment Modules ...

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Tune in as Charlie Harp unveils the rationale behind the Patient Information Quality Improvement’s (PIQI) streamlined data model, and explains how it turns complex patient information into an organized format for analysis. The next episode will cover the taxonomy that was used in the PIQI framework to identify the root causes of data issues and provide recommendations for improvement.

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When looking for a practical way to assess the quality of patient information from external sources, Charlie Harp found that existing frameworks were either too general or too specific to certain databases or schemas. So, he created the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework. In the second episode of the "Data Quality in Healthcare" series, Charlie gives a high-level overview of the PIQI framework and sh...

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It’s time to take a closer look at healthcare data quality. This episode is the beginning of a series related to the challenges that all healthcare professionals face in gathering, organizing, and using patient data. Join the conversation as Charlie Harp shares how we got to this place as an industry and a solution for measuring the quality of patient information. Listen now to learn about the Patient Information Quality Improvemen...

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In this episode of The Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity, Inc., (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) with over 25 years of informatics experience. Janice shares how AORN is working to enhance workflows with surgical schedules and perioperative nursing. She also gives insights into how AORN collaborates with healthcare institutions to stay ahead of the curve when it ...

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In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp sits down with Patina Zarcone, Director, and Millie Malai, Technical Project Manager of Datapult, an APHL company. They discuss how Datapult and Clinical Architecture came together to create a system that would get lab data to public health faster, especially during the pandemic. They discuss the impact of this system on the timeliness of data for emerging infectious disease...

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie discusses the importance of data quality and how it impacts the results of any analysis or decision-making process. He also shares insights from our inaugural survey which indicates that the industry recognizes the importance of data quality but acknowledges that it is a challenging effort.

Download the Data Quality Survey Report here: https://clinicalarchitecture.com/d...

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In this episode Charlie Harp talks with Lori Moore, Public Health Analyst and Stuart Myerburg, Informatics Team Lead with the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) group, as they discuss what it’s like managing data around vaccines, the challenges they faced and opportunities they discovered while going through the COVID-19 crisis. 

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie provides a high-level primer on Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP). He also discusses terminologies and adding data into an OMOP data repository. To learn more about OMOP please visit ohdsi.org. 

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August 31, 2022 57 mins

On this episode of the Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp is joined by Janet Campbell, Software Developer and Vice President of Patient Engagement at Epic, Chris Grasso, Chief Information Officer at Fenway Health and Carol Macumber, Executive Vice President at Clinical Architecture to discuss the HL7 Gender Harmony Project. 

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On this Episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Drew Ivan, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyniate, about cross-organization interoperability, patient interoperability  from consumer devices, why we interoperate, and how all of it affects our relationship with trust.

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August 18, 2021 18 mins

On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie is on the road talking about the relationship between clinical lab data and interoperability. He talks about LOINC, as well as the use of lab data in AI and machine learning, and some of the challenges faced in these applications.

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On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks about the purpose of the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Initiative, how price transparency would be implemented in our current system, as well as the difficulties we would have to face in order to achieve it. 

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