Interoperability

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health will provide access to two core national systems - the National Health Index (NHI) and Health Practitioner Index (HPI) – using FHIR interfaces.

The new interoperability rules will fuel a new era for consumer healthcare, explains Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures.

Rather than those providers having to obtain patient health data manually from each of a patient's other sites of care, CommonWell enables sharing with other providers across the continuum.

Unguarded and lacking a common playbook for security, the internet of things presents plenty of new network challenges.

Despite one senator's hope to move deliberately with rulemakings and not repeat some errors of meaningful use, National Coordinator Donald Rucker said delays only lengthen the time that consumers are "not in control of their care."

Brazil is facing many of the problems common in other countries, notably interoperability, privacy, infrastructure, a large population and the combination of private and public health, says E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake.

The research firm says 2018 was the busiest in recent years for EHR market flux, and recent purchasing decisions show an evolution in the electronic health record landscape.

Top takeaways from a month of reporting on today's current state and the future of health data sharing.

As health systems merge, the need to reconcile data sets from disparate EHR systems for population health and quality improvement is critical, and artificial intelligence can help, the company says.

The hospital has been able to use the Amazon Web Services-based interface engine to send hundreds of millions of messages both internally and externally.