Interoperability

The Dutch Ministry of Health is taking a hard stance on interoperability

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Erik Gerritsen, secretary at the Dutch Ministry of Health, tells HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer Charles Alessi, MD, about new plans to ensure healthcare providers are sharing their data.

 

Disruptive innovation: Inside athenahealth's developer lab

Santosh Mohan, head of athenahealth's More Disruption Please labs, tells MobiHealthNews Editor Jonah Comstock about the potential open platforms bring to healthcare and he shares a few details on the EHR company's work with Apple.
 

Globally open standards needed to improve patient care

The interoperability problem cannot be solved by one company, but a modular approach through open standards can be achieved through cooperation with the global stakeholders, says Stefan Sauermann, program director of UAS Technikum Wien.
 

Consumers – not providers – will have the power to ensure interoperability

Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.
 

A gold-medal idea: Bringing interoperability to Olympic host cities

Michael Nusbaum of the HIMSS Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative is leading the effort to bring connected healthcare to the Olympics by leveraging international standards.