Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Emergency medical response information isn't used enough in healthcare. Agencies are looking to align with TEFCA, seeking partners to improve interoperability with state EMS systems and to build out technical resources for bidirectional exchange.

Also, a "baseline" API standards have been released for the New Zealand health sector.

A deep dive on qualified health information networks from Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, a designated QHIN, who also discusses how he is working with two major EHR vendors and numerous smaller ambulatory practices on interoperability.  

The anchor exhibitor has been working on data exchange for a long time. With the FHIR spec now widespread and becoming normative, good things are starting to happen across a variety of use cases – and the company plans to show how it's helping.

The roadmap for TEFCA, onboarding new QHINs, complying with 21st Century Cures provisions and many more information sharing imperatives will be discussed at HIMSS24.

Governments need to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues like homelessness, according to Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, and his colleagues.  

With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.

Together with Telstra Health, it will support the mandatory sharing of key health information across Australian care settings following FHIR standards.

To improve vaccine data transfer, public health partnerships are critical, say Sabrina Matlock from the American Immunization Registry Association, Sarah Finley of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, and Kristin Glaza of Oracle Health.

Also, WA Country Health Service is looking for a technology provider for its Virtual Care service.