Interoperability

Jeff Coughlin, senior director of Federal and State Affairs at HIMSS, discusses information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.

The members of the HIMSS EHR Association support the rules' goals – but say that as drafted they go beyond Congress' intent for 21st Century Cures, are too loosely defined, have too tight a timeline and require too much IP sharing.

You can't secure a network that you don't understand. Mapping hospital IoT is a must-do process for the creation of an effective defense strategy, experts say.

Dr Afzal Chaudhry, consultant nephrologist and CCIO at Cambridge University Hospitals, details the trust's journey to moving away from paper-based processes.

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health is going to Cabinet this June to get approval to develop a detailed business case for a national Health Information Platform.

The informatics group calls on ONC to "flip the paradigm" of consumer access as it finalizes the "most consequential health informatics policies" since meaningful use.

Deloitte's view of the future: empowered consumers taking advantage of open, secure platforms that intermingle disparate information for care coordination and wellness "nudges." Now we just need to get there.

Healthcare systems need to collaborate on defense and rely on AI and machine learning to respond to new threats, study finds.

The nonprofit group is joining with six state medical societies to incentivize practicing physicians to link their EHRs to health information exchanges.

Its new InterQual 2019 technology offers support for "hospital at home" care models, the company says.