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Dr. Jonathan Nebeker, CMIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the VA seeks to engage with health systems, vendors and others to develop interoperability solutions that can connect veterans to community-based benefits.
All publicly funded Italian hospitals have adopted HIMSS' EMRAM and INFRAM models to assess their digital maturity and demonstrate the benefits of digitization, says Elena Sini, HIMSS board chair and group CIO at Italy's GVM Care and Research.
HIMSS26 attendees share their learnings about AI, interoperability and other hot healthcare topics at the conference.
Amy Gleason of U.S. DOGE Service and CMS says the CMS Health Technology Ecosystem will provide a single patient access point powered by modern identity systems. This will replace portal logins and enable seamless data sharing.
Dr. Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT, describes his plans for the conference and talks about TEFCA, HTI-4, HTI-5, imaging data, behavioral health exchange and more.
Kevin Ritter, EVP for CareInMotion at Altera Digital Health, offers some answers and discusses how to tackle the challenges of data fragmentation and silos that block a unified patient view and impede coordinated care.
Payer-provider collaboration in data exchange is being mandated and payers must speed up the prior authorization process, says Courtney Yeakel, chief product officer of the Payer Unit at Veradigm.
Hyland Healthcare's Michael Burke talks about how governments across the GCC are investing heavily in digital health projects, unifying patient records and emerging as a global model for interoperability and connected care.
HealthEx CEO Dr. Priyanka Agarwal describes how identity verification technology makes it possible for patients to go to TEFCA and get their records, and weighs in on how the industry can rapidly scale Individual Access Services.
At AHIP 2025, Surescripts presented a scenario in which prior auth is done in 30 seconds using coordination between the physician, PBM and the EHR, says Matt Koehler, VP of product innovation at Surescripts.
Veradigm is consolidating payer apps attached to EHRs by 15% to simplify providers' days and eliminate patient care gaps by up to 80%, based on larger provider groups, says Megan Zakrewsky, VP of product for clinical data exchange.
Peninsula Health is participating in the statewide HIE project to address data integration challenges, shares Dr Shyaman Menon, executive director of Medical Services.