A FedRAMP status is really two separate pieces of information, glued together. One tells you how far along a platform is in getting approved. The other tells you what kind of data it’s allowed to touch. Read them apart, and any status — no matter how it’s worded — becomes…

FedRAMP and FISMA are related, but not interchangeable. Both sit on the same NIST 800-53 High baseline — but FISMA is the umbrella law that says every federal system needs an Authority to Operate (ATO), while FedRAMP is the cloud-specific program built on top of it. A FedRAMP High ATO…

Short answer: Yes. If an EHR runs in the cloud and touches federal health data, it must be FedRAMP authorized — or have an agency ATO that meets the FedRAMP bar. No law spells out “EHR” by name, but federal law makes FedRAMP mandatory for the cloud services EHRs run…

In a recent New Yorker article, Atul Gawande, CEO of the Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan health initiative wrote about “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers.” He points to the soaring physician burnout rate and suicide rates that are nearly double (or triple for women physicians) the average population.  The culprit, Gawande believes…

Scott Cressman is the Head of Growth at Human API. He is constantly working at the bleeding edge with companies across a number of verticals including healthcare, insurance, and clinical trials to evolve their customer engagement strategies, doing so by arming them with real-time, previously unattainable health data via Human…