Stephanie Fraser and I recently attended Civitas 2024 Annual Conference in Detroit, a conference with great focus on health data and interoperability. We spent some time with the sponsors to find out what is the emerging technologies that will help the decades long quest of interoperability.
Since 2014 the Office of the National Coordinator has been measuring engagement of data exchange in four domains, send, receive, find, and integrate. In a recent ONC Data brief, they reported that 70% of non-federal acute care hospitals engaged in all domains of interoperable exchange routinely or sometimes in 2023. Lower-resourced hospitals engaged less frequently in interoperable exchange when compared to their higher-resourced counterparts. 71% of hospitals reported routine access to necessary clinical information from outside providers, but only 42% indicated that clinicians routinely use it when treating patients. Engagement has been increasing but the numbers do not reflect a true interoperable data exchange system that is needed to ensure clinicians have access to the most timely and relevant patient health information when making healthcare decisions.
With this in mind, we ask experts, as we push forward in advancing interoperability, what role do you see emerging technologies play in helping to streamline data exchange across local, regional, and national networks? And how are their organizations bridging this gap?
Here is what they had to say.
Gregg Church President 4Medica
Kevin Day CTO Rhapsody
Rajib Ghosh CEO Health Roads
Lou LaRocca, President and CEO, J2 Interactive
Bevey Miner, EVP Healthcare Strategy & Policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions
Jay Nakashima, President, eHealth Exchange
Michael O’Neill CEO MedicaSoft
Adam Sand COO & General Counsel, Selfii
Dan Vreeman Chief Standards Development Officer HL7
