Interoperability

Quorum Health achieved many financial milestones from a successful spinoff operation, and its integration of the athenahealth EHR across the org also helped get the Chronic Care Management program to 60,000 Medicare patients.

FHIR-based clinical data retrieval and an API to more easily share data will help payers, pharma and providers with forthcoming 21st Century Cures rules, the company says.

The new technology enabled Catalyst Health Network to achieve all of its care management goals and create a fully connected information highway, its president says.

Five top electronic health record systems experts offer healthcare C-suite executives and IT leaders some valuable best practices for getting the most out of their EHR investments.

Dr. Vincent McCauley, CMO and CMIO at Telstra Health, says data being made available at the point of care and in a timely fashion is becoming a reality with the ability to have an agreed data structure and content through FHIR.

Hyland Healthcare's vendor-neutral solutions address the problem of interoperability with existing or new systems, says Peter Weston, healthcare sales manager at Hyland.

Among the biggest obstacles to reimbursement are the lack of interoperability and patients not owning their data, says Rob Lieberthal, principal of health economics at MITRE.

A bug in its codebase could cause protected health information of some beneficiaries to be inadvertently shared with others, or with the wrong BB2.0 app, the agency says.

Community Memorial Health System sees a 29% reduction in no-shows and an automatic way to fill cancellations, which all leads to more revenue.

The hospital developed the system that gathers data from the EHR, runs it through artificial intelligence, and delivers real-time warnings to clinicians.