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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.
Immunization data now moves seamlessly between EHRs, pharmacies and registries so clinicians can track what doses patients have received, says Eric Larson, senior health IT lead at the American Immunization Registry Association.
Cambridge Health Alliance's Dr. Hannah Galvin, Health Equity Changemaker Award recipient, talks about her work in advancing standards that would allow patients to selectively share health data to protect sensitive information.
Fragmented systems hinder care in tribal regions, and Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, says that seamless data exchange is essential to closing care gaps and improving access to treatment.