Interoperability

Verato CEO Mark LaRow discusses the challenges of finding more effective means of patient identity and matching – and describes how the company's referential matching technology can help.

From lean supply chain policies, to telehealth, and technology adoption — the pandemic is forcing the industry to take a hard look at the way it operates and scramble to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.

Providers, certified IT developers and HIEs should "be on the lookout" for upcoming adjustments in certain timelines, said Deputy National Coordinator Steve Posnack.

ENOVACOM Patient Connect was “the obvious choice” for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust when it wanted to connect life-critical ventilators to the electronic patient record.

Its news Data Usability Workgroup will build implementation guides to help facilitate more useful health information exchange and more intuitive clinical workflows.

At the Cerner Health Conference, CEO Brent Shafer said COVID-19 has "inspired a burst of innovation," with hundreds of patents and faster progress for a wider array of technologies moving from concept to general availability.

InterSystems' IRIS Data Platform is now generally available to Epic customers.   

In a conversation with George Halvorson, the CEO discusses interoperability, telehealth, rapid dissemination of new clinical insights and the ability to do installs and go-lives quicker and less expensively.

Whichever way you look at it, many countries across the globe are experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases coinciding with the start of the Autumn/Winter seasons says Dr Saif Abed, founding partner at The AbedGraham Group.

Dueling letters published this week in JAMIA take issue with the degree to which public health agencies are able to receive information electronically.