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From electronic case reporting to PDMP to disaster response, Executive Director Jay Nakashima says he's optimistic as network architecture improves and public-private data sharing efforts make progress.

Big data is going to be transformative, as ONC and CMS rules move healthcare from a gated interaction to digitally transparent clinical care, says Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the ONC.

The global consortium for eHealth interoperability and the digital health indicators are just two success stories that have been introduced this year by HIMSS with the aim of improving healthcare, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Jonathan Weiner, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses some of the data fundamentals necessary for effective AI and machine learning algorithms.

The presidential election has passed, but ongoing Senate races could have unforeseen impacts on healthcare IT, says Tom Leary, SVP of government relations at HIMSS.

With recent new momentum around finding more effective means of patient identity and matching, Verato CEO Mark LaRow discusses the challenges – and describes how the company's referential matching technology can help.

Marc Probst, longtime chief information officer at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, also discusses the cost challenges facing healthcare now – and the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.

Diameter Health's John D'Amore discusses the future of interoperability in the U.S.

While the Nordics face the same demographic, economic and technological challenges as everyone, their approach to collaborative and innovative healthcare and crisis management is more relevant than ever in light of the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Dr. Donald Rucker, National Coordinator for Health IT and Hal Wolf, HIMSS President and CEO, discuss various requirements of ONC's 21st Century Cures Act regulations and the critical need for interoperability to address the current global pandemic.

Drew Ivan of Lyniate and Matthew Michela of Life Image discuss how technology issues for interoperability are more of a cultural than a deployment challenge.

Deep Dive: Compliance deadlines for long-awaited interoperability rules have been delayed, but recent days only highlight the pressing need for greater access to health data.