Interoperability (164)

Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service, discusses the interoperability challenges and health disparities faced by Native Americans, as well as the importance of modernizing EHRs for providers in tribal communities.

Tying all the pieces of the healthcare journey into one seamless interaction will make it easier for patients to stay engaged, which will result in better outcomes, says Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart.

Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results, talks about how patients want more trust, transparency and information sharing from healthcare organizations to guide them in their complex healthcare journey.

Gregg Church, president of 4medica, discusses how standardizing information capture, including a universal patient ID, can enhance data quality and eliminate the 20% record duplication rate facing healthcare organizations.

Dr. Brian Lein, DHA assistant director of healthcare administration, Bill Tinston, FEHRM director, and Holly Joers, PEO DHMS program executive officer, discuss military healthcare initiatives including the common EHR and virtual-first care.

Dr. Andrew Mellin, CMIO at Surescripts, explains how his company is bringing medication price transparency to the provider at the point of care, saving patients an average of $61 every time on their prescriptions.

Michael Palantoni, vice president of platform and data services at athenahealth, talks about how TEFCA will accelerate the move toward large-scale interoperability and the impact it will have on population health initiatives.

Drew Ivan, Rhapsody's chief strategy officer, outlines some challenges healthcare organizations face in following governmental interoperability and security regulations and how they can make those mandates part of their strategic roadmap.

Didi Davis, VP of informatics, conformance and interoperability at The Sequoia Project, previews her HIMSS23 panel, which will discuss the company’s Data Usability Implementation Guide v.1 released last year and its recommendations.

To create insights with AI, health systems need real-world data, says Tina Manoharan, VP of the Data & AI Center of Excellence at Philips, who is speaking at HIMSS23.

Evelyn Gallego, CEO and founder of EMI Advisors, previews her upcoming HIMSS23 panel, where she and fellow panelists will highlight the opportunity to develop a standardized data exchange to improve maternal care coordination and planning. 

In their upcoming HIMSS23 presentation, Kathryn Kuttler, Darren Mann and Dr. Peter Haug of Intermountain Healthcare will discuss how a low-code, replicable framework built on FHIR offers real-time decision support in the ER.