Category: Interoperability

As part of a partnership to advance healthcare interoperability, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Health Level Seven International (HL7) will work together to promote a standardized approach to interoperable data exchange, the organizations announced. As part of a partnership to advance healthcare interoperability, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)…

National health IT coordinators past and present agreed interoperability is a multilayered issue that encompasses more than just the exchange of data. read more …read more    

Hospitals from Spain, UK and Germany have been surveyed about their current status of interoperability; outcomes also show internal and external drivers. …read more    

Standards development work in healthcare is a challenging, often thankless task, and definitely more of a marathon than a sprint. It isn’t often that a proposed standard garners genuine enthusiasm among people working on interoperability issues, but that is what is happening with HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Standards development work in healthcare is…

Interoperability was the word of the day at West Health’s Healthcare Innovation Day in Washington, D.C. last Thursday, February 6. FierceHealthIT caught up with Joseph Smith, M.D. toward the end… read more …read more    

On Healthcare Innovation Day at the HCI-DC 2014 in Washington, D.C, Malcolm Gladwell gave three lessons in culture, framing and consequence in relation to interoperability in healthcare. On Feb. 6 at the HCI-DC 2014 in Washington, D.C.—a public conference co-hosted by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI) and the Office of the National…

Draft interoperability standards for medical devices could be on their way as soon as April, according to officials from the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, speaking at the Health Care Innovation Day event in Washington, D.C., Thursday. read more …read more    

Malcolm Gladwell opened his healthcare talk with a joke. Confessing that he is expert in neither healthcare nor interoperability, the long-time journalist revealed that he had actually pondered how his former self would cover his present self as a speaker — likely with “quotes out of context and something really snarky.” read more …read more    

Karen DeSalvo, MD, newly appointed national coordinator for health information technology, gave some insight Thursday on how the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to proceed under her leadership. read more …read more    

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services and interoperability solutions, today announced it will showcase its comprehensive suite of products and services to improve care, increase efficiencies, enhance patient safety and maximize outcomes during the HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibition…