Health Information Exchange (HIE)

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.

With Apple, Amazon and Google coming into healthcare and interoperability still lacking, it’s time to prepare for the coming platforms.

InterSystems HealthShare VP Don Woodlock explains some recent examples of how customers are putting the technology to work improving pop health outcomes and increasing revenue.

The vendor, one of the first to use the new version of the HL7 standard, is also offering advice for how providers can take advantage of the spec for better interoperability.

Fiona McDonald, director of data sharing and online patient preference setting for Great North Care Record at NHS, recently spoke with Healthcare IT News about what the U.

A YouGov poll from 2018 in the North East and North Cumbria region indicated that 94 percent of people surveyed would allow their medical records to be shared within the NHS.

Agreeing to the same format for demographic data would boost patient safety, according to research from Indiana University and Pew.

Ursula Hübner with the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück and Beth Elias with University of Scranton discuss the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform and strategic approaches to seamlessly delivering health informatics education.

The group, called Interoperability Matters, will focus on addressing the remaining challenges obstructing data exchange and is open to "broad private and public sector participation," officials said.