Category: Interoperability

Advanced Interoperability: Leveraging Technology to Improve Patient Lives and Provider Workflows By Justin Dearborn There’s an increasing need for all of healthcare to be integrated in its approach to accessing, sharing, and storing information. It’s not just patients who could stand to benefit from more advanced interoperability. It’s also healthcare providers who want to meet…

As I’ve been preparing to chair the HealthIMPACT conference in Houston next Thursday I’ve been having some terrific conversations with big companies like Cisco, some of our publishing partners, and smaller vendors entering the health IT space for the first time. One great question I was asked during a discussing yesterday by a tech publisher…

Medical interoperability could be a source of more than $30 billion a year in savings and improve patient care and safety, according to a new white paper released by the La Jolla, Calif.-based Gary and Mary West Health Institute and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Medical interoperability could be…

HHS lays out 4-part health IT strategic plan HHS publishes a broad health IT strategic plan for 2014-2018 that focuses on expanding health IT adoption, coordinating the development of interoperability standards, and integrating clinical best practices. Western Maryland Regional Medical Center staff adheres to ‘circle of care’ approach In a recently released Maryland Hospital Patient…

A new whitepaper released Monday by the San Diego-based West Health Institute provides a detailed summary of the group’s Health Care Innovation Day, held last month in Washington, D.C. In addition to outlining the day’s events, West Health also listed several actions it believes are essential to “igniting an interoperable healthcare system.” read more …read…

While lauding the Health eDecisions project for its work to set standards to support clinical decision support, a Health IT Buzz post announces a new initiative called the Clinical Quality Framework… read more …read more    

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) are creating a collaborative environment that will aim to improve health IT and care coordination in the pre-hospital environment. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and…

As you know, measuring quality and improving quality are key parts of improving health, health care and increasing efficiency. Within the S&I Framework, the Health eDecisions (HeD) project has led the charge in accelerating standards to support clinical decision support. The Health eDecision (HeD) initiative will be coming to a close on March 27 (after…

0 Last week, after an impressive three-and-a-half year run, I decided to retire my Apple iPhone for an Android phone. What happened next has gotten me to empathize with industry insiders who express frustration with the lack of interoperability between health IT vendors. I understand the frustration over the lack of interoperable systems in healthcare.…

The $75 million allocated for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in President Obama’s proposed FY 2015 budget will increase focus on interoperability and patient safety,… read more …read more