Interoperability

Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, says fragmented systems hinder care in tribal regions. Seamless data exchange is essential to closing care gaps and improving access to treatment.

The new federal electronic health records system went live at facilities in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw. The Department of Veterans Affairs also says it is staffing up to support implementations of the long-beleaguered Oracle Health EHR.

Healthcare organizations should be strategic about bidirectional data exchange opportunities to reduce duplication and enhance the efficiency of data pipelines, says J. Josh Wilda, University of Iowa Health Care's AVP for information systems and CIDO.

Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews to give an insider peek at how companies are working together to accomplish improving healthcare.

Thirteen hospitals and 374 clinics are now exchanging patient medical records directly with the Social Security Administration through the nationwide interoperability network.

The Caliper FHIR Accelerator implementation community has been organized with multiple industry partners and collaborators to improve medical and personal health devices data exchange.

The Catholic-run healthcare provider has moved to managed monitoring of its clinical integration systems to improve incident response and reduce downtime across its services.

Helen Hill, VP and CIO of Michigan-based SEMHIE and a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, has helped launch MiHIN, the Michigan health information exchange. She also chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE.

A data architect at Texas' Midland Memorial Hospital offers some up-close perspective on the state of data exchange today, and describes what needs to be done to get to a state of "true" interoperability.

The assessment found Korean hospitals show strong performance in governance and interoperability, but slower progress in patient-facing services.