interoperability

Dan Gottleib, who leads the Smart Health IT project at Boston Children's, and Verily's Josh Mandel talk about FHIR, SMART and the concept of "substitute ability" as a means to improve interoperability.

The initiative, known as the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales network, will initially run for a period of two years.

A recent NHS Digital survey of social workers highlighted that the majority wanted to see easier methods of information-sharing to support their work. A key challenge to achieving this, unsurprisingly, was sharing data with health organisations.

There is no doubt: 2018 is a year to watch for digital healthcare, and keep an eye out for the second part of this feature due to be published next week.