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Interoperability, says Christina Caraballo, vice president of Informatics at HIMSS, is a team sport that breaks down silos among health systems.
Kevin Ritter, EVP for CareInMotion at Altera Digital Health, offers some answers and discusses how to tackle the challenges of data fragmentation and silos that block a unified patient view and impede coordinated care.
Dr. Jonathan Nebeker, CMIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says the VA seeks to engage with health systems, vendors and others to develop interoperability solutions that can connect veterans to community-based benefits.
Payer-provider collaboration in data exchange is being mandated and payers must speed up the prior authorization process, says Courtney Yeakel, chief product officer of the Payer Unit at Veradigm.