Accidental Interoperability
By Keith Boone – I had a recent experience where I saw a feature one team was demonstrating in which I could actually integrate one of my interop components to supply additional functionality.
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Shifting from Volume to Value with Technology
By Abhinav Shashank – Since 1966, Americans have received more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than rest of the world combined with astonishing advancement in medical treatments, but how much of it reflected on ground level is still a troublesome figure.
Healthcare CIOs: Your Health Exchange Problems Solved with a Universal Bus for Healthcare
By Buff Colchagoff – Many of us remember a time when we shared digital information through good old-fashioned floppy disks, which started us on a path for ubiquitous data transfer.
Building your Health IT House
By Buff Colchagoff – There was a time when most Americans built their own homes. Think of log cabins being crafted by hardy individuals — cutting the trees, hewing logs and fitting the doors. Now, that method is a romantic idea, but almost nobody does that any more.
ONC Observes Carequality in Action; Data Exchange Across Networks Triples in 60 Days
On October 25, 2016, Dr. Vindell Washington, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, visited St. Louis-area healthcare clinics and a long-term care nursing facility to see real-world health data sharing via the Carequality Interoperability Framework.
Doctor! Doctor!
By Frank Fortner – Will we get incentives, or nothing at all?” are just a few lyrics from the HITECH Train (Crazy Train parody) song written back in early 2011. It’s been five years since the song was written.
Surescripts Accelerates Interoperability to Enable More Valuable Data Sharing
Nationwide Network to Provide All EHR Customers Free Access to National Record Locator Service; New Clinical Information Exchange Services Coming in 2017.
How a National Patient Identifier Can Jump-Start Interoperability and Cut Costs
By Thomas Grove – Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread implementation of robust EHRs across healthcare.
Nanticoke is on the ‘cusp of something great’ with CommonWell
By Charles Palmer – When Cerner Chairman and CEO Neal Patterson challenged health care providers to help advance interoperability by joining CommonWell during his keynote speech at Cerner Health Conference 2014, Nanticoke took it to heart.