Interoperability

The Deloitte Life Sciences and Health Care Practice has issued a report predicting the future direction of healthcare. Its predictions may surprise.

As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT comments period drew to a close, a number of organizations weighed in about how to improve electronic health records platforms.

Even as EHR vendor-driven networks gain maturity and scope, older and more traditional health information exchanges still have a lot of critical value to bring to the table, one expert says.

The first employee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is taking a new role in a different federal unit.

More and more healthcare organizations are urging a broader swath of the industry to get involved driving interoperability.

The theme is how health IT community stakeholders can take advantage of collaboration opportunities with 11 key federal agencies.

Connecting data between the public health department and hospitals in Shanghai has resulted in improved services for patients, says Tongyu Zhu, director at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.

Organization says 5 will build on FHIR 4 with more normative content, support for apps that use multiple versions of the spec and other advancements.

The whole point of electronic health records is to facilitate the sharing of patient data, but that is still difficult, not just because interoperability hasn't been fully achieved, but also because matching patient records is still not easy to achieve – putting patients at risk for incorrect care and also posing privacy concerns, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

This year the showcase will feature 82 organizations demonstrating 121 health IT systems across 16 different use-cases.