HealthITLink

Category: Interoperability

  • Legislators grill Karen DeSalvo on interoperability

    Legislators grill Karen DeSalvo on interoperability

    —

    by

    in

    The issue of poor interoperability between electronic health record systems took center stage at a Senate hearing Tuesday focusing on the promise of precision medicine. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/legislators-grill-karen-desalvo-interoperability/2015-05-06?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Premier: Make interoperability mandatory in 21st Century Cures

    Premier: Make interoperability mandatory in 21st Century Cures

    —

    by

    in

    The Premier healthcare alliance urges lawmakers to make health IT interoperability mandatory in the 21st Century Cures legislation, an updated draft of which was unveiled Wednesday. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/premier-make-interoperability-mandatory-21st-century-cures/2015-05-01?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Let's move from patient safety research to patient safety accountability

    —

    by

    in

    I’ve expressed concern before that ONC paints a Pollyanna portrait of its success. So I found its recent issue brief on health IT and patient safety refreshing. Yes, it’s a very rosy… read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/lets-move-patient-safety-research-patient-safety-accountability/2015-04-30?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Intermountain CMIO on Building Interoperability, Building a Clinical App Store

    Intermountain CMIO on Building Interoperability, Building a Clinical App Store

    —

    by

    in

    The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) is looking to create a plug-and-play atmosphere for interoperable healthcare applications. The CMIO at Intermountain Healthcare, one of the founding members, talks with HCI on what it gets out of this initiative. Whether it’s the CommonWell Health Alliance, the Healtheway initiatives, the Health Level Seven International (HL7)-led Argonaut project…

  • Morning Headlines 4/28/15

    —

    by

    in

    Health Information Technology: Where We Stand And Where We Need To Go National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD publishes an article in Health Affairs on the early successes, current state, and future roles that health IT will take on in care delivery, specifically addressing interoperability, and IT goals that go beyond EHRs and…

  • Health Information Technology: Where We Stand And Where We Need To Go

    Health Information Technology: Where We Stand And Where We Need To Go

    —

    by

    in

    Karen DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses her view of the health information technology landscape. She outlines an agenda for her office that includes incentivizing interoperability, “standardizing standards,” and establishing shared expectations and actions around data security and privacy. This post, which also appears on Health Affairs Blog, is…

  • EHR fraud: A slippery slope

    EHR fraud: A slippery slope

    —

    by

    in

    The future of health IT was looking pretty rosy this week in the afterglow of last week’s annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Chicago. Interoperability…. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/ehr-fraud-slippery-slope/2015-04-23?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • George W. Bush on health IT: 'Logical solutions become inevitable'

    George W. Bush on health IT: 'Logical solutions become inevitable'

    —

    by

    in

    Former President George W. Bush took the stage at HIMSS15 on Wednesday afternoon for a conversation with HIMSS President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber. Interoperability read more …read more Source:: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/george-w-bush-health-it-logical-solutions-become-inevitable       

  • ONC’s First Chief Health Information Officer Says His Number-One Focus Is Interoperability

    ONC’s First Chief Health Information Officer Says His Number-One Focus Is Interoperability

    —

    by

    in

    Michael McCoy, M.D., who in January became the first Chief Health Information Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, shares his perspectives on interoperability, meaningful use, and the path ahead in healthcare In the midst of all the activity at the HIMSS Conference, being held at the McCormick Place Convention Center…

  • Humana CEO Bruce Broussard: Time to Change Business Models and Move Towards Value-Based Payment–With Interoperability

    Humana CEO Bruce Broussard: Time to Change Business Models and Move Towards Value-Based Payment–With Interoperability

    —

    by

    in

    In a keynote address on Tuesday morning, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard called for a transformation of the U.S. healthcare industry based on value-based reimbursement and the encouragement of the health of individuals and communities In a keynote address on Tuesday morning, April 14 at HIMSS15, being held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago,…