Interoperability

Wolters Kluwer vice president of medical informatics Howard Strasberg highlights the topics he and his colleague will discuss at HIMSS24, including data transfer between EHRs and the cloud and FHIR-based clinical decision support standards.  

Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and cohost of CancerX, highlights ONC's annual meeting and how data with interoperability, privacy and security protections can fundamentally change oncology outcomes.  

More hospitals are coming into the fold in the coming months.

Holly Miller, chief medical officer at MedAllies, discusses the Sequoia Project's Data Usability Taking Root initiative around adoption of the Data Usability Implementation Guide, which underscores interoperability of trustworthy, usable data.  

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital superintendent Dr Chien-Tzung Chen relays what challenges the health system overcame to achieve EMRAM Stage 7 and the benefit of embracing digital transformation to improve healthcare proficiency.

National Taiwan University Hospital's vice superintendent, Dr I-Rue Lai, relays the health system's ambition to be a fully value-based, data-enabled care provider, which includes interoperability, internally and with external providers.

According to Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change, a fully interoperable central consent registry will allow everyone in the U.S. the right to choose how, and with whom, their personal and health data is shared.  

Cochairs of FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston, outline how FAST helps roll out FHIR nationally to ensure interoperability of security, privacy and identity by various healthcare stakeholders.  

Jacqueline de Leeuw, chief nurse innovation officer at Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), tells how the hospital achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, allowing its nurses to access a seamless data flow from multiple external sources.

As healthcare organizations embrace new care delivery paradigms with the addition of recent technologies, they must ensure that they have sufficient technical integration to support their goals.