Interoperability

Carla Smith, executive vice president of HIMSS, shares the organization's hopes for the newly-opened HIMSS Innovation Center in Cleveland, and explains what it could mean for the future of the healthcare industry.

Paul Wilder of the New York eHealth Collaborative discusses interoperability and the role of meaningful use Stage 2, which he says has helped more than Stage 1.

The umbrella of informatics is fairly broad. Really it’s applying technology to a particular area. So, in this case, it’s applying it to healthcare. It’s analyzing what components of technology are necessary to improve things.