Interoperability (165)

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.

Christina Caraballo, VP of informatics at HIMSS, talks about how vendors, governments and other stakeholders gathered in Rome are demonstrating the ability to share medical data seamlessly.

Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird, says revised interoperability rules that may drop in June could shed light on reasonable fees and exceptions, details on sensitive information sharing and public health IT certification requirements.

Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust, discusses the company's work to improve interoperability between direct secure messaging platforms and its work with information service providers to help with secure information exchange.

Dr. John Blair, CEO at MedAllies, talks about how qualified health information networks (QHINs) will eventually connect directly to each other to give clinicians and first responders access to complete medical records over a patient's lifespan.

Christopher Falkner, 2024 HIMSS Changemaker and Sodexo's senior director of digital strategy and cybersecurity, talks about his career journey from engineer connecting medical devices with EHRs to cybersecurity leader protecting those devices.