Category: Interoperability

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Interoperability continues as a top priority provider challenge, despite multi- million dollar investments in electronic medical/health record systems. The Direct protocol has emerged as an affordable, interoperable and compliant framework for exchanging patient data securely among healthcare providers. …read more    

With global market penetration of mobile phones reaching 96% and with about 40% of the global population having access to the Internet, mHealth is set to revolutionize physician-to-patient interaction in the Healthcare environment. An emerging patient-centric model of care delivery, a high penetration of mobile devices and the Internet, and an increase in the usage…

By Dr. Donald Voltz Billions of dollar from private and government funds have been poured into EMRs yet the ROI has not demonstrated a return. Outside of the financial outlay for implementation, training and maintenance of these systems, many other issues are impacting healthcare delivery and safety for patients. Lack of User Interface Design There…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Monday announced the release of its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, 2015-2020, updating the goals of an initiative most recently released in 2011. [See also: Interoperability is ‘impossible in the abstract’] read more …read more      

The lack of interoperability is a major impediment to the development of a robust health data infrastructure, according to an independent report commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with input from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). The lack of interoperability is a major impediment to the…