Interoperability

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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By Brian Dobosh, VP Digital Systems and IT&S, RWJBarnabas Health In my sixteen-year career at RWJBarnabas Health, I have seen the dawn of the modern-day Electronic Health Record (EHR). The health system has grown significantly since 2006 through mergers, acquisitions, ...
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A leading hospital in the acute-care market was actively working on its initiative to improvise operational efficiency and reduce medication errors by installing Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs) across all their hospitals. However, their legacy Hospital Information System (HIS) would not ...
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By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS, Physician Solutions Analyst III, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Interoperability sits behind the scenes making sure that different systems can talk to each other and exchange data. It makes sure ...
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