Interoperability

APAC digital health leaders have emphasised the importance of collaboration and innovation to accelerate digital transformation in healthcare.

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While there's been progress across government and industry, the agency said the new technology strategy emphasizes health equity, public health, AI and cybersecurity to better connect the health system with health data "for all health IT users."

ChristianaCare and UAB Health are set to make the move to Epic, while Oracle has a new pair of critical access hospitals to its CommunityWorks suite and is looking "beyond the EHR."

It wants the information released so patients, health systems, interoperability advocates and others "can evaluate the facts for themselves."

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The aim is to bolster more consistent use of the HL7 interoperability standard across HHS, says the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, and help "break down the silos separating patients, providers, payers, public health and research."

This comes as the government outlined a four-year national medical AI research and development roadmap.

Alexander Berler of IHE Catalyst discusses how digital health companies will need to collaborate with each other and meet four different levels of interoperability to satisfy the new European Health Data Space regulations.

A national interoperability leader advocates for simpler and more secure data exchange use cases, and says making patient access a routine part of healthcare information exchange will lead to positive health impacts.