Standards

Standards
Focus on interoperability: What we learned
By Tom Sullivan | 11:25 am | April 30, 2019
Top takeaways from a month of reporting on today's current state and the future of health data sharing.
Standards
Wolters Kluwer offers AI-powered data mapping to help with hospital M&A
By Mike Miliard | 03:14 pm | April 26, 2019
As health systems merge, the need to reconcile data sets from disparate EHR systems for population health and quality improvement is critical, and artificial intelligence can help, the company says.
Standards
Interoperability was 'a huge fight' 20 years ago
By Tom Sullivan | 10:20 am | April 22, 2019
A quick look back at the competing specs for clinical coding and data exchange gives a glimpse of the some of the challenges still ongoing today.
Standards
ONC extends comment period for interoperability rules, updates TEFCA
By Mike Miliard | 01:12 pm | April 19, 2019
Standards
Telehealth is past the 'tipping point' – how's it doing with interoperability?
By Mike Miliard | 05:26 pm | April 15, 2019
A new survey from the American Telemedicine Association assesses the current state of data exchange standards for remote care and offers best practices for health systems looking to capitalize on its potential.
FHIR
What you need to know about healthcare APIs and interoperability
By Bill Siwicki | 01:41 pm | April 11, 2019
Three experts discuss how application programming interfaces help enable system interoperability, and describe what the role of APIs will be in the future.
Standards
Interoperability: Do we have the value proposition upside down?
By Mike Miliard | 04:05 pm | April 10, 2019
AMIA CEO Doug Fridsma says healthcare should simplify its approach to data exchange: keeping a laser focus on worthwhile use cases, sharing first and standardizing later, while also taking some cues from the basic APIs that power the World Wide Web.