Interoperability
The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.
Common platform + standard infrastructure + unified support = reduced variability and increased predictability.
To succeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must overhaul the way data is collected and shared. Technology-driven collaboration will be critical to rebuilding the trust of agency partners.
While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.
Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.
Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.
As Medicaid programs determine what's next for health IT investments, state and regional HIEs, increasingly serving as "health data utilities," are natural partners to build on current programs with Medicaid Enterprise System funding.
In the COVID-19 era, health systems recognize that existing data infrastructure is inadequate. Here are three things large datasets need to be useful.
Health is in the throes of some of the most significant changes as systems reel from a variety of rapidly changing environments. Dr Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS, explores lessons learned, as we look cautiously to a better 2022.
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