Interoperability (208)

Emma Cartmell, founding partner at VC firm Cartmell LLC, on what artificial intelligence can do today, and how healthcare is still trying to work out the practical applications for improving quality and reducing costs.

Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures, describes how the new interoperability rules will fuel a new era for consumer healthcare, and describes her investment philosophy.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche recounts the early days of healthcare interoperability where there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels.

Prescription drug monitoring programs are essentially forcing providers to get used to putting data into a state system and getting information out to inform care decisions, according to New Jersey State Officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin.

E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil is facing many of the problems common in other countries, notably interoperability, privacy, infrastructure, a large population and the combination of private and public health.

Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect, explains why he gets frustrated about the concept of interoperability.

Putting AI to use in the clinical setting requires curated data, supercomputing infrastructure and the ability to model algorithms on neural networks, says Jörg Aumüller, head of digitalizing healthcare marketing, Siemens Healthineers.

Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch says the tech can be used to foster interoperability but there are some key questions that need to be answered first, including ones about privacy and security.

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary discusses how policy changes are advancing interoperability, as well as information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf says interoperability is the cornerstone of advanced clinical decision support and knowledge management to fulfill the promise of patient engagement and consumer-directed exchange.

Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO of AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative, says data portability will be the next interoperability hurdle.

Tools exist to engage patients with their data in ways that create a good relationship with providers — when the technology doesn't get in the way, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at HIMSS.