Interoperability
Interoperability enables the seamless exchange of health information across different systems, organizations, and platforms. By breaking down data silos, interoperability enhances care coordination, reduces duplicative tests, and empowers clinicians to make informed decisions, ultimately improving patient outcomes.
As healthcare continues to evolve, interoperability ensures that systems and technologies work together, fostering innovation and creating a more connected, patient-centered healthcare ecosystem. To know more, read our Interoperability special issue.
FHIR in Healthcare: Navigating the Challenges of Adoption
By Eric Snyder, Executive Director, Technology & Innovation Group, The University of Rochester Medical Center, Wilmot Cancer Institute The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, commonly known as FHIR, is a recurring topic in healthcare technology discussions. Despite its introduction in 2012 ...
Navigating Regulatory Changes for Healthcare Providers: Optimizing Compliance and Efficiency
By Srinivasa Chaganti, Director of Enterprise Applications, DHR Health Regulatory changes in healthcare often arrive like sudden disruptions, throwing clinical workflows out of sync and distancing patients from quality care. Yet these regulations provide the crucial pathway towards ensuring patient ...
How does your organization address interoperability issues to ensure efficient clinical workflows across different systems and platforms?
By Vineela Yannamreddy, CIO, United Medical Center Interoperability enables the exchange of data from different healthcare providers, patients, and other stakeholders to access and share relevant medical information across various platforms and settings, regardless of the system or vendor they ...
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, ...