Interoperability

Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.

A health IT CEO offers his view of the next year in healthcare and technology, pointing to AI's true transformative power operating quietly in the background and mounting pressure for providers to reassess their digital investments.

A large children’s hospital is seeing significant cost and time savings after implementing RFID to track high-value medications.

Janice Reese, program manager of FAST (FHIR at Scale Task Force), says making patient access simpler is a key benefit, along with identity consent and security.

These key strategies can help build trust and align goals with vendors.

The court battle with Particle Health highlights how national health information exchange networks rely on a chain of trust that can be broken, jeopardizing patient privacy under HIPAA.

Interoperability capabilities are available, but ushering patient data exchange and speeding up time to care are matters of provider change management and embracing digital transformation, says Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies.

The EHR Association is urging the agency to address members' concerns and finalize additional decision support intervention measurements proposed in the draft rule, and clarify uncertainties that could compromise the quality of submissions.

Secure medical records exchange under the national framework by all Epic customers is expected to be completed by the end of 2025, says Rob Klootwyk, director of interoperability at Epic.