Interoperability

Emmanuel Macron announced plans to replicate Germany’s DiGA Fast Track process. 

The patient journey in China is becoming shorter thanks to a new digital ID card, which is cutting complicated paperwork and reducing long queues in hospitals by connecting testing, consultation, and payment procedures.

European Commission report says the certificate has set ‘global standard’. 

Sharing real-time patient benefit and eligibility information with providers at the point of prescribing improves medication access and, ultimately, patient outcomes.

A new KLAS report shows hospital executives consistently describing two technology factors as key to their progress with population health and shared savings: strong integration and timely customization.

New research suggests vulnerabilities in healthcare's API "last mile," while another report assesses the cost of unsecured devices.  

"Our technology needs to be reliable. It needs to be understandable. It needs to be complementary. It needs to enable, not disable," said Dr. David Feinberg at the Cerner Health Conference on Tuesday.

Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics & Health IT Standards at HIMSS, details three big trends he sees in health IT standards around public health, global health and the API economy.

Under the three-year engagement, the organisations will develop speciality workshops for professional development.

It is frustrating for time-pressed clinicians to jump from one system to another to mine patient data, but now tried and tested solutions – which enable seamless connectivity between unrelated health systems – are becoming more widely available.