Most people would agree that there is a ways to go for the healthcare industry to become truly interoperable. Recently, two health IT leaders discussed how to navigate the challenging road ahead when it comes to data sharing.

Many in the healthcare industry struggle over the true definition of interoperability. According to University of Texas Health School of Biomedical Informatics professor Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., oftentimes, when people talk about interoperability, they’re talking about it from their own point of view or their own use case that they’re interested in.

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