Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on industry interoperability news, TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.

NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with healthcare strategist Heather Flynn Kearney about what organizations are experiencing during the early stages of this mandatory model.

By Louis Devaleix – My business partner and I operated a multi-state behavioral health organization with 10 facilities across five states. We struggled with the lack of accountability and transparency in our operations, feeling as though we were running our business blindly.

As HL7 International launches its second annual Global AI Challenge, a worldwide competition spotlighting solutions that use standards-based data to solve real healthcare problems, we spoke with HL7’s Chief AI Officer, Dr. Daniel Vreeman about what last year’s inaugural competition revealed, where healthcare AI is headed next, and why interoperability is a foundation for innovation.