Interoperability

Integrating insurer data enables providers to incorporate claims, risk and other information into their analytics efforts, the company said.

Many of the 800 accountable care organizations are lagging in critical IT infrastructure, though commercial ACOs are earning more success today than their non-commercial counterparts.

The company claims to be the first scanner manufacturer to offer third-party certification that its products are interoperable.

The venture capital firm has already invested in Redox, founded by former Epic employees, as well as upstarts focusing on analytics, billing, and cloud-based machine learning.

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Startup founders said they will use the funding to build out a nervous system for healthcare that connects providers, patients, pharmacies, labs and specialists. 

Consultancy Deloitte explained that the architecture has widespread implications for connecting fragmented systems to better assess the value of care and safeguard protected health information. 

Seven organizations will split the funds in multiple efforts to use health IT for projects ranging from a patient-centered data model to interoperable, bi-directional behavioral health data exchange.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an EHR contract guide and the Health IT Playbook to assist physicians with best practices and success stories.

Interoperability has, well, interoperability problems. Standards are being developed but EHRs are still under-delivering. And once data sharing picks up, more challenges will arise than we can understand today. Multiple tipping points are ahead.