InterSystems

Everyone involved in maintaining provider information probably knows how challenging it can be. When you think about the magnitude of the problem, 25% of provider data changes annually, the real complexity can be daunting. Yet poor data can lead to operational inefficiency, problems with revenue collection, and more importantly patient dissatisfaction. Learn more about how a Provider Directory, can automate provider updates and create a golden record for all your provider information.

In this session, the panelists will describe how data flows across multiple facilities, software systems and devices, while ensuring their organizations can continue to grow and scale a connected health business. They’ll review interoperability challenges faced with integrating multiple EHR systems as well as after moving to a single EHR system. Fundamental considerations such as access, scalability and performance, as well as the challenges of system migration will also be discussed.

In this session, experts from three large Integrated Delivery Networks – Ascension, Intermountain, and Mass General Brigham – offer a resounding yes. The panelists will describe how data flows across multiple facilities, software systems and devices, while ensuring their organizations can continue to grow and scale a connected health business. They’ll review interoperability challenges faced with integrating multiple EHR systems as well as after moving to a single EHR system. Fundamental considerations such as access, scalability and performance, as well as the challenges of system migration will also be discussed.

The full value of FHIR is still years in the making, says one expert.

Successful population health and value-based care initiatives require complete and accurate information. Hear how efficient aggregation and normalization of community-wide health and care records, combined with systematically applied innovative clinical logic can improve patient safety, expose gaps in care and present providers with a relevant view of information about their patients, dramatically increasing clinician awareness and helping them act on what matters.

Learn how healthcare organizations can improve patient and provider data management with better workflow and data quality tools to prepare their organizations for a value-based future.

By: Dr. Russell Leftwich, senior clinical advisor, interoperability, InterSystems Interoperability begins at home.  The most fundamental interoperability is the ability to access the data in your own system and use that data for care delivery.  There are two steps: first accessing the data and then viewing it in a way that you can most effectively and efficiently use it. A part of the promise that the HL7 FHIR standard is already delivering on is a new and easier way to access and use the data in your own organization’s EHR system.  FHIR is based on the same technology behind social media, e-commerce, travel sites, and other familiar web services many of us use every day.  It is easy for those familiar with this web development technology to begin building with FHIR. Because like these familiar web services FHIR is very adaptable to mobile devices, there is an early explosion of innovation of FHIR apps on mobile devices in a number of organizations. Most of these innovative apps are built around access to data in one’s own system and use fundamental data like patient demographics, vital signs, medications, and problem lists.  This has given clinicians customized views of their data and customized decision support for clinical care.  Clinicians have long desired these customizations, but such customized functions were prohibitively expensive to develop as add-ons for individual EHR implementations. Notable examples of such apps include a pediatric growth chart app already in use in a number of institutions and an app that displays an individual’s blood pressure over time and that is easily implemented in different EHR systems. There are also simple decision support apps being deployed that are invoked by a medication order (prescription) and can show alternative medications based on cost or formulary restrictions.  Decision support apps under development with expectation that they can be implemented within weeks identify patients at the point of care at risk for conditions like Zika virus and associated complications.  It is already apparent that like the new functions that have appeared with each version of a smart phone, the development cycles of the FHIR standard will bring new capabilities and value to healthcare every few months. We know we didn’t have to wait for smartphone-5 to start seeing innovation, and the same is true of HL7 FHIR.   Register for Dr. Leftwich’s upcoming webinar, "Three Apps Fan the Flames as HL7 FHIR Spreads," at http://www.intersystems.com/who-we-are/events/event/three-apps-fan-flames-hl7-fhir-spreads/

Achieving interoperability across boundaries and connecting providers for collaboration is a long process. Here are a few examples of customers where our interoperability technology is improving care and outcomes.

The standard bodes well for future collaborative care models, even if it’s still in its infancy.

(SPONSORED) Two physicians working at the intersection of healthcare and technology recently chatted about what FHIR will mean to practitioners at the point of care.