Interoperability

A deep dive on qualified health information networks from Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, a designated QHIN, who also discusses how he is working with two major EHR vendors and numerous smaller ambulatory practices on interoperability.  

The anchor exhibitor has been working on data exchange for a long time. With the FHIR spec now widespread and becoming normative, good things are starting to happen across a variety of use cases – and the company plans to show how it's helping.

The Biden Cancer Moonshot says that Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech, athenahealth, Flatiron, Ontada, ThymeCare and CVS Health have adopted the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model to increase interoperability, advance equity and improve cancer diagnosis outcomes.

Support clinical decision-making while keeping humans in the loop.

Interfacing with admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) on its infusion pumps has helped a regional health system increase visibility into patients’ infusion status and drug replenishment timing to reduce the chance of medication errors.

The roadmap for TEFCA, onboarding new QHINs, complying with 21st Century Cures provisions and many more information sharing imperatives will be discussed at HIMSS24.

Governments need to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues like homelessness, according to Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, and his colleagues.  

The health plan will host Epic's Payer Platform on Google Cloud with an eye toward building "an intelligence system equipped with AI to deliver valuable analytics and insights to healthcare workers, patients, and members."

With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.