Interoperability
Transitioning to Patient-owned Data
By Dustin Hufford, SVP & CIO, Cooper University Health Care Healthcare’s primary problem is not the lack of data, but the lack of fidelity and usability of the available data. The challenge is collating, interpreting, and distilling data to a ...
The Potential and Pitfalls of Virtual Care
By Mitchell Fong, VP Virtual Care, Renown Health Virtual care is the intersection of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and analytics that drives necessary care for patients. The potential impact of virtual care is immense that not only impact the ...
Physicians Need High-Value HIE to Spur Adoption
By Shannon Vogel, Associate VP, Health Information Technology, and Ogechika Alozie, MD., Infectious Disease Specialist, Texas Medical Association In 2009, Congress allocated millions of dollars to states to spur health information exchange (HIE) nationally by enacting the Health Information Technology ...
Data Governance enabling Transformation, Interoperability and Privacy (TIP)
By Doug Graham, Director of Enterprise Data Governance, Mercy Health While introducing data governance to a provider onboarding summit, I asked the question, “What do you think of when you hear the term Data Governance?” The response… “run the other ...
From the Crow’s Nest: The Search for Perfect Health Data Exchange
By Michael B. Marchant, Director – Interoperability & HIE, UC Davis Health It is 2025; you are on your way to a 10 am appointment with your PCP (primary care provider). You receive a text with a link to their ...
Interoperability: Are we over the hump?
By Bill Sorrells, Director – CTO, Information Services, Dayton Children's Hospital Interoperability between health IT systems is a major challenge for hospitals and health systems today…still. In the early years of building health information exchanges (HIEs), getting healthcare organizations to ...
Healthcare Interoperability: Why is it still a challenge?
By Dan Howard, CIO, San Ysidro Health Some of you may remember the 1982 blockbuster movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which a young boy named Elliot finds an alien visitor from another planet stranded in his backyard. Like most kids, ...
Interoperability-In the rush to comply are we providing value to our patients and how do they know?
By Dennis Sutterfield, VP & CIO, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Healthcare organizations need an explicit plan for sharing PHI that provides a foundation of trust for patients while simultaneously inspiring confidence for clinical teams. This plan meets a federal ...
A PATIENT-CENTERED FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH SYSTEM INTEROPERABILITY
By Kristin L. Preihs, MPH, CHES, CQIA, Director of Clinical Quality & Funded Partnerships, The American Hospital Association (AHA) I started my career in a rural public health department in southern Illinois, where interoperability often relied on impromptu phone calls ...
Interoperability Starts Locally
By Jonathan Kaufmann, CMIO, Bayhealth Medical Center “Hey, please stop sending me four copies of the same lab result, you’re killing me.” It’s not unusual for me to receive a text like this from a colleague on a Monday morning ...