interoperability

Drew Ivan, EVP of product and strategy at Rhapsody, talks about why, compared to other industries, it has been difficult for healthcare to tackle the interoperability challenge.

As providers seek to improve the patient experience and engage patients for better health outcomes, a KLAS report explores how vendors' claims square with health systems' priorities.

Ardy Arianpour, founder and CEO of Seqster, says by collecting users' EHR, DNA and wearables data, his company's technology is helping drive "person-centric interoperability."

Grahame Grieve, FHIR product director for HL7 International, says not only is FHIR a standard for exchanging healthcare data, but it is also a community of people who aims to create a "public treasure" that we all own.

Daniel Stein, president of the Stewards of Change Institute, says his group is convening diverse industry stakeholders to tackle big challenges such as patient matching.

David Hancock, healthcare executive advisor at InterSystems, discusses the need for interoperability when delivering healthcare to populations now and in the future.

Julian M. Goldman, medical director of biomedical engineering at Partners HealthCare System, addresses the connection between cybersecurity and interoperability.

Medal's collaboration platform for common workflows translates a wide variety of formats into FHIR data to be exported downstream, says co-founder and CEO Lonnie Rae Kurlander.

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CARIN, a nonprofit dedicated to consumer-directed exchange of health information, has unveiled its Blue Button HL7 FHIR API model and draft guidance implementation guides.