Interoperability

Hospitals’ use of data for patient care from outside providers is low, with only 18.7 percent of hospitals reporting they “often” used these data, Health Affairs report finds.bern

England’s Health and Care Chief Information Officer addressed concerns surrounding the Global Digital Exemplar scheme and so-called ‘slow followers’.

Mike Restuccia has seen firsthand the challenges and opportunities of deriving as much value as possible from your electronic health records software.

New criteria for vendors are meant to ease burdens and ultimately pass cost-savings down to the hospitals and systems that buy electronic health record software, Donald Rucker says.

Sachin Shetty, associate professor at Old Dominion University's Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research, is excited about blockchain's potential, and is doing research with Sentara Healthcare into how it could be deployed. But privacy and scalability pose challenges, he said.

Advisory Board Senior Vice President Rob Barras discusses the need for providers to start locally to spark interoperability while recognizing there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.

By giving patients control over their data, the tech could enable better privacy protections and efficiency for information exchange.

Further topics from the NHS innovation conference this week include the establishment of up to five digital innovation hubs to create and use datasets to improve quality of care or asking suppliers to adopt open approaches to data sharing.

The EHR vendor says Share Everywhere is designed to empower MyChart users to allow clinicians to view medical records.

Manufacturers must also work to continually assess new cyber risks to the medical devices on the market.