Interoperability (164)

Jonathan Bush, founder and CEO of Zus Health, advocates for a new approach to healthcare data interoperability through creating a parallel, "always-on" medical record system that provides a complete picture of a patient's health.

Garrett Singletary, senior software engineer of data and AI at Concord Technologies, describes how his company's products combine data from faxes and EHRs into HL7's C-CDA digital format for secure transmission to other healthcare organizations.

Michael Nusbaum, president of MH Nusbaum & Associates, discusses pace of improvement, industry standards and why interoperability will be a fact of life forever.

Providers will have to leverage their EHR to generate a request for information from payers and will need to collaborate more on APIs, says Joe Gagnon, CEO of 1upHealth.

Robert Havasy, senior director, informatics strategy at HIMSS, talks about how HIMSS24 attendees are demonstrating AI's results and discussing its legislation, as well as different strategies that might help accelerate interoperability efforts.

Dr. Maria Carolina Aguirre, CMIO at FCV-HIC (Hospital Internacional de Colombia), talks about her work with HL7 to promote the adoption of interoperability standards, as well as with the Colombian government to improve information sharing laws.

Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, a designated qualified health information network, or QHIN, offers a deep dive on the subject and discusses how he is working with two major EHR vendors and numerous smaller ambulatory practices on interoperability.

The VA's research is evolving rapidly on all types of digital representations and their convergence, say Interoperability Institute's Jim St. Clair and the VA's Thomas Osborne and Dr. Paul Tibbits. They'll dive into healthcare modeling at HIMSS24.

"Our mission is to connect EMS providers with their ecosystems of care," said Jonathon Feit, CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies. AI can ensure EMS has situational awareness while moving patients, helping to avoid responder burnout.

In 2016, Tire State became the first hospital in Türkiye – and third in EMEA – to achieve EMRAM Stage 7. Dr. Gurhan Zincircioglu, Chief Medical Information Officer, shares his HIMSS journey and highlights the benefits of Tire State’s Stage 7 status.

Micky Tripathi, ONC national coordinator, reflects on recent interoperability milestones, reasonable AI transparency and electronic case reporting timelines and TEFCA's FAST track to FHIR exchange in 2024.

Jennifer Goldsack, CEO Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), explains how a cross-agency, cross-industry collaboration is driving the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's first truly interoperable payment model.