Interoperability

The new proposed rule would "break down barriers that have stood in the way of commonsense care coordination and value-based arrangements for far too long," says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.

Healthcare organizations can use Amazon HealthLake to aggregate information into a centralized, searchable lake and normalize it using machine learning and FHIR.

The representatives said they're optimistic about the legislation's forward movement, given President-Elect Joe Biden's support for the 21st Century Cures Act when he was last in the White House.

The agency aims to issue a unified industry-wide specification for representing addresses by the end of 2021.

The international quality standard demonstrates the use of technology, data and analytics to support inpatient care. 

Its Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program aims to help healthcare organizations understand and prep for the new rules, assess their own interoperability maturity and build new API-based exchange capabilities. 

 Financial support has been awarded to 13 projects which have digital tools and AI at the heart of their approaches.

Saudi Arabia’s Digital Transformation Advisor in the Ministry of Health has called for increased global collaboration to improve digital maturity in the Middle East. Dr Ahmed Balkhair was addressing the HIMSS & Health 2.0 Middle East Digital Health Conference.

The healthcare provider – and first member of the Kingdom’s Mayo Clinic Care Network – will roll-out the EMR system in its Jeddah hospital and clinics.

Steven Matarelli, senior clinical executive at Vocera Communications, says technologies must be able to interact effectively with other technologies and thereby build on interoperability, a key consideration in any transformation strategy.