Category: Interoperability

This week I’m in Osaka keynoting the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society annual meeting. Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshihara, my colleague from Kyoto University, hosted a pre-conference workshop on the state of EHRs throughout the world. For years I’ve said that the challenges of EHR adoption and healthcare information exchange are the same in every…

Yesterday I joined several Massachusetts CIOs at a Meditech healthcare information exchange kickoff meeting. Here are the slides we used. Meditech has chosen to do the right thing – support the Direct protocol without requiring a vendor specific HISP, an interoperability “subscription” or transaction fees. Nationwide, any of Meditech’s Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified platforms…

The June HIT Standards Committee focused on novel transport standards for patient mediated exchange, an overview of patient/family engagement tools, updates on formulary downloads, use cases for image sharing, and lab ordering standards. Dixie Baker and David McCallie presented the NWHIN Power Team review of the emerging transport standards for consumer exchanges that I believe…

Across the world, various communities in Health Information Technology  are developing methods for exchanging health information among healthcare providers, patients, and other authorized parties to revolutionize the delivery of care.  However, doing something as simple as sharing secure, private healthcare information is hard. Everything involved in sharing the information must be securely constructed in a…

The promise of connecting where the continents meet was successfully realized as this year’s IHE-Europe Connectathon drew participants and visitors from every region of the world. …read more Source: IHE-Europe Connectathon 2013 enables´robust, in-depth testing for HIT interoperability

“More stuff that actually works would be a start.” -about startup companies #AARPLivePitch #LifeAt50 — EMR, EHR and HIT(@ehrandhit) May 31, 2013 Today I had a unique experience attending the Life At 50+ event that AARP puts on. It turns out that life at 50+ revolves around healthcare and wellness in many ways. Plus, they…

The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued an implementation guideline in an attempt to help providers and stakeholders properly and effectively implement Direct. Direct is a federally-developed program that has aimed to create a platform that faciliates the secure exchange of authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients…

ONC recently released the Direct Implementation Guidelines for Assuring Security and Interoperability that recommend a common set of policies and practices to implementers to ensure Direct is being executed in a way that will support vendor-to-vendor exchange and interoperability. DirectTrust provides governance over Direct exchange In addition to issuing those guidelines, we awarded an Exemplar Governance…