Interoperability

Cambridge-headquartered InterSystems today announced that MediWay Technology, a China-based healthcare software company, has built and deployed its new iMedical Cloud healthcare IT ecosystem platform using InterSystems IRIS for Health.

The research firm's big takeaway from Orlando this past month: Newly empowered patients and the proliferation of data they bring will boost the business case for exchange – and have "cascading effects" for cloud, AI and more.

Christel Anderson, senior director of Interoperability Initiatives for HIMSS, talks about a HIMSS19 showcase dealing with topics including data sharing, patient engagement and social determinants of health that intersect with interoperability.

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf sums up what stood out at the global conference, including trends emerging during the reformation of healthcare across the entire ecosystem.

A new poll of CHIME members by LexisNexis Risk Solutions finds that technology execs' priorities vary widely depending on the maturity of their IT infrastructure.

Infosec is quickly becoming where the two have an opportunity to finally join forces or risk leaving vulnerabilities wide open.

The group, called Interoperability Matters, will focus on addressing the remaining challenges obstructing data exchange and is open to "broad private and public sector participation," officials said.

The organization is partnering with Providence St. Joseph to enable clinicians to apply insights that help patients be more compliant, says ResMed's VP of SaaS Strategy Annie McBride.

A new partnership with Holon Health enables real-time push of key patient information to network providers, regardless of their IT system, cluing them in to data they need to tackle care variation across the ACO.

Nick Knowlton, VP of strategic initiatives at Brightree, discusses working with the CommonWell Health Alliance to enable patient-centric interoperability across the spectrum of care.