Interoperability (158)

At HIMSS24 APAC, health leaders sought support for "full scale" interoperability and strategic data compliance within and beyond their countries, notes HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Alexander Berler of IHE Catalyst explains how the organization educates vendors about the eHealth European Interoperability Framework and helps them test their products for different patient scenarios.

HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer Anne Snowdon examined Leapfrog data on 2,000 U.S. hospitals and found a direct link between achieving EMRAM Stage 6 or 7 and higher quality and safety results.

Automated electronic PA process uses FHIR interoperability for greater efficiency, says Greg LeGrow, executive director of Payer Product Market Strategy at athenahealth and Mark Fleming, senior director of Product at Availity.

Monief Eid of the Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia is set to speak about interoperability and governance in enterprise imaging and image exchange at HIMSS24 APAC.

Lyle McMillin, principal product manager at Hyland, says the company's recent survey with HIMSS Market Insights found that many healthcare organizations are still struggling to exchange patient data, even after moving to the cloud.

Marilee Benson, president and cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT, discusses the company's interoperability platform, which creates a "gateway" for healthcare data exchange between technology providers and customers.

Jeremy Dähn, president of the HIMSS D-A-CH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) community, talks about leveraging HIMSS' thought leadership and advocacy to encourage German policymakers to pass laws requiring data sharing.

Since EHR systems are built around the traditional fee-for-service care model, Dr. Harm Scherpbier, HealthShare Exchange CMIO, says new technology is being developed to work alongside them to enable data sharing for value-based care.

Multiple companies participating in the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase worked together to show how "Giuseppe," a fictional patient from Lombardy, easily shared his records with providers when he needed emergency care in another region.

At the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase, representatives from five companies discussed solutions enabling a sample Italian patient, "Alicia," to share health records with local providers while visiting Greece and Turkey.

Dr. Saad Aldousari, hospital director at Kuwait's Sabah Al-Ahmad Urology Center, says the center's user-friendly EMR is integrated into all internal systems to unify clinical data, prevent medical errors and keep patients safer.