By William Hyman – The generic idea of medical record interoperability is that diverse record systems from diverse providers and diverse vendors should be able to send/share/exchange/display patient information in order to enable better individual healthcare.
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By Jim Tate – You can tell a lot about a person by asking them what their favorite fairy tale was when they were a child. Was it The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, or maybe Sleeping Beauty? For me it was The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Facilitating information sharing or interoperability, so that the patient’s health history is available at every point of care, is a prerequisite to improving care and reducing costs.
HIMSS saw a spike in healthcare leaders’ interest in interoperability education at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, according to attendance data from the event. ompared to HIMSS16, attendance more than doubled.
HL7 is pleased to announce that Release 3 of FHIR has just been published. The FHIR community invested a huge amount of work in this release. How is FHIR being used in healthcare today?
By D’Arcy Gue – It’s no exaggeration to say that our EHR systems’ lack of interoperability is the single strongest barrier to nationwide population health management.
Join ONC for the inaugural Interoperability in Action Day highlighting many of the successful standards and technology progress advancing the exchange of health information over the past year.
Q&A with Alan Portela, CEO of AirStrip. Interoperability and our progress towards it is a topic Mr. Portela speaks passionately about, and I had a chance to ask him what his thoughts were on the gains the industry is making post-HIMSS.
Hear all our HIMSS17 Highlights on Healthcare NOW Radio. Here is who I talked to about the on going saga of interoperability. Where are we and will we ever get where we want to be?