Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The ONC final rules on interoperability and patient access are expected soon, and Sequoia's info blocking workgroup seeks to help organizations prepare for compliance.
The executive director of research at the cloud IT giant describes what CIOs and other healthcare leaders should be looking for at the global conference in March.
A Regenstrief informatics expert will show at HIMSS20 how the Indiana Network for Population Health is evolving as "novel data infrastructure" to address the root conditions for better health.
Tohoku University's Dr. Masaharu Nakayama talks about how his group was able to withstand the disruption of Japan's 2011 earthquake and why that level of resilience is difficult to maintain.
Innovation
Vendors offer their perspective on the opportunities and challenges for healthcare data exchange in the year ahead.
Available on the AWS Marketplace, the new Interoperability Land offers a platform to develop and test different versions of DSTU3, STU3, R4 FHIR, SMART on FHIR and other standards.
By investing in R&D for the HL7 spec, the National Institutes of Health can boost the utility of EHR data for research, and encourage other clinical innovations, the informatics group says.
Malaffi CEO Atif Albraiki says simultaneous provider projects, such as health information exchanges, make EMR adoption a challenge at times in the UAE, but he encourages stakeholders to learn from global experiences.
The collaboration will also enable broader coordination of the central intake of referrals received electronically, by fax or hard copy into a universal form for acceptance, triaging and processing.
Indiana Health Information Exchange and Michiana Health Information Network will merge in 2020, at which point all MHIN employees will become IHIE employees, with offices in Indianapolis and South Bend.