IEEE activities in eHealth intended to expand interoperability, grow industry ecosystem and support new life-saving capabilities. Announcing a new standard and two new standards development projects designed to support plug-and-play, interoperable communications across eHealth devices.
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By David Dieterich – I recently attended the first Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) annual meeting in Deer Valley, Utah. If you are not familiar with this group, it’s a group of regional or state HIEs that formed a collaborative late last year.
Key EMR solution executives and healthcare provider organizations convened at the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, to help solve the key interoperability challenges facing the industry.
By Keith Boone – Definitions of interoperability surround us, but all the attention in the world to definitions make very little difference in the end. I have a theory that people will believe two systems are interoperable when they can observe that the systems work together in simple ways with little to no effort, and in complex ways with some effort.
The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA) announces that it will hold its Annual Membership Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Chicago O’Hare’s Admirals Club.
With one click of the mouse, Franciscan Alliance physicians can seamlessly access the Indiana Health Information Exchange’s CareWeb application from within their Epic EHR.This single sign-on process provides physicians with the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date information from all IHIE participants within their existing workflows.
By Mony Weschler – Innovation in healthcare is critical; it helps enhance quality patient care and improves workflow drastically. However, to encourage the innovation we need in healthcare, a cultural change across the industry is required. Collaborations across the healthcare industry need to occur to improve current processes, and to ensure the patient is the priority in everything we do.
By Edgar Wilson – As the saying goes, what got us here won’t keep us here. Politicians, providers, and programmers across the country by now know (or should) that bringing on an enterprise EHR system does not transform care delivery or clinical operations overnight.
By John Halamka MD – In many previous posts, I’ve written about the importance of enabling infrastructure to accelerate interoperability. The standards are not the rate limiting step, but the lack of a provider directory, patient identifier, and consent registry are.