Interoperability (163)

While much progress has been made in interoperability in the past 10 years, Dr. Steven Lane, Health Gorilla chief medical officer, and 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, says that broader data sharing through TEFCA is still in its early stages.

Interoperability, says Christina Caraballo, vice president of Informatics at HIMSS, is a team sport that breaks down silos among health systems.

Dan Torrens, eHealth Technologies CEO, discusses where providers are in shepherding patient data exchange across the finish line and speeding up time to care. "People are stuck in the current way of doing things. The infrastructure is there."

Government buy-in will help the healthcare industry propel dynamic registration of FHIR Endpoints in 2025, but the directory needs to be pulled into a trust framework like TEFCA, says Paul Wilder of CommonWell Health Alliance.

Providers are still stuck in document exchange because B2B data security under the HL7 standard is tedious. Paul Wilder of CommonWell Health Alliance says he is hopeful that the ability to ensure trust at scale is about two years away.

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.