Interoperability (208)

For many provider organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic shifted IT resources away from regular EHR upgrades. Douglas Herr, vice president of EHR services at DeliverHealth, offers advice for CIOs who are behind with their EHRs.

Two months since the ONC rules took effect, many health systems are still sorting out the IT and process changes they require. Mark Segal of Digital Health Policy Advisors offers an explainer and shares best practices to avoid looming penalties.

Rita Bowen, vice president of privacy, compliance and HIM policy at MRO, a clinical data workflow solutions company, discusses how proposed new rules can impact healthcare provider organizations.

CAQH Senior Vice President April Todd describes the council's new FHIR endpoint directory, and discusses challenges and opportunities as health plans get more used to API-based data exchange.

The ONC leader discusses the new information blocking rules, the value of FHIR and open APIs and how data exchange is evolving for a more robust public health response.

Digital infrastructure and interoperability have been key to Germany making significant progress in digital health and being recognized as a global leader in digitizing the patient journey, says Jörg Debatin, chairman of the Health Innovation Hub.

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, discusses recent progress, what's on the Biden team's plate and ways healthcare organizations can take action now until true interoperability is a reality.

Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality, discuss how image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records.

Standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and interoperable standards in particular, says Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK and executive lead for Yorkshire and Humber Care Record.

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.