Category: Interoperability

The inability of the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense to share healthcare data electronically has become such a significant concern that the Government Accountability Office has added the problem to its list of “high risk” areas. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/gao-lack-interoperability-between-dod-va-health-records-high-risk/2015-02-16?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Healtheway, a nonprofit collaborative focused on advancing interoperability, has hired Dave Cassel, a former Epic Systems Corp. executive, to lead its Carequality initiative, which seeks to build a bridge between health networks. Healtheway, a nonprofit collaborative focused on advancing interoperability, has hired Dave Cassel, a former Epic Systems Corp. executive, to lead its Carequality initiative,…

Monday’s developments at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) sound positive indeed. At the ONC’s annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C., offered significant promise for providers anxious to see progress at ONC on a number of fronts. 0 The Jan. 30 release of the interoperability roadmap from the Office of the…

Following the first draft release of its interoperability roadmap, federal health IT leaders continued to push the need for greater interoperability and more specific standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 2.Agency pushes for feedback on its interoperability roadmap as challenges lie ahead…

Interoperability Roadmap ONC publishes a draft version of its 10-year interoperability roadmap. The 166-page document outlines a plan for deploying and maintaining an API-based interoperability framework over the next 10 years. White House Details ‘Precision Medicine’ Initiative President Obama’s recently announced Precision Medicine Initiative will send $5 million to ONC to develop an interoperability framework…

By John Halamka Several people have emailed me asking about my well being, given that my blog posts have been delayed this week. I’m fine – my excuse is snow. 30 inches over 15 acres is a lot of snow to move. From Tuesday to Wednesday this week, we had “Stormageddon”, zero degree temperatures, 40…

EHR Certification Improvements A large cohort of medical associations lobby to ONC to focus MU3 certification on usability, interoperability, and safety. NHS disregards patient requests to opt out of sharing medical records The NHS confirms that it has disregarded tens of thousands of requests by patients to opt out of a new national medical record…

Last year, HCI made the HL7 draft standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) one of our Top 10 Tech Trends to watch. This year, interoperability is the first topic of conversation wherever CIOs and CMIOs gather, and FHIR is now at the center of the discussion. Last year, Healthcare Informatics made the HL7 draft standard…

FDA puts interoperability guidance on back burner The FDA has published its list of priorities for 2015, which includes clarifying regulatory guidance on clinical decision support software, but does not include any short-term efforts to improve interoperability. eLearning as good as traditional training for health professionals Researchers at Imperial College in London, carrying out a…