interoperability

E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil is facing many of the problems common in other countries, notably interoperability, privacy and infrastructure, and its large population is making solutions more complex.

Prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to put data into a state system for use in making informed care decisions, according to New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin.

Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch says biometrics can be used to foster interoperability, but questions about privacy and security need to be answered first.

Applying AI to improve care delivery and patient experience requires curated data, supercomputing infrastructure and the ability to model algorithms on neural networks, says Jörg Aumüller, head of digitalizing healthcare marketing, Siemens Healthineers.

The concept of interoperability is frustrating. Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect, explains why.

Central Georgia Health Network VP Jodi Ingram and CIO Gabriel Orthous say speaking both the payers’ and the providers’ languages is key to getting them to trust each other.

Although providers and vendors have fallen short so far, each will need to cooperate if new healthcare technologies are to proliferate.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche recounts how healthcare interoperability has progressed from the early days, when there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels.

Also: New funding rounds for Enlitic, Diameter Health and Candid.

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary offers insight into policy changes that are advancing interoperability, as well as information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.