Interoperability
To build resiliency across their diverse populations, Colorado and Louisiana are harnessing advanced technical and financial innovations to improve collaboration in healthcare delivery as they balance policy decisions and priorities.
At HIMSS26, leaders from CMS and ASTP/ONC discussed the two different but complementary approaches to interoperability, likening the first one to the tides and the second to a speedboat.
By adopting the standard usability practices in The Sequioa Project's USCDI v3 guidance, organizations can improve clinical data quality and enhance patient care, which are essential for innovation.
Dr. John Halamka's HIMSS26 opening keynote explored the possibility of AI becoming the standard of care. Executive editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss that and other hot topics from the event.
A doctor-tech leader from India argues that genomic data infrastructure, resistance forecasting and sovereign AI discovery tools will be critical to future regional pandemic response.
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf was honored during the HIMSS Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium for his commitment to the community.
Also, General Practice New Zealand has called for minimum cybersecurity standards in primary care following recent reports of breaches.
At HIMSS26, two leaders from New York's Office of Mental Health will describe how they managed semantic data exchange challenges with FHIR and terminology mapping, improving care coordination and critical time intervention for vulnerable individuals.
The Electronic Health Record Association tells ASTP/ONC that some unresolved issues make it difficult to comment on specific IT certification proposals. And the American Hospital Association says it has concerns about privacy and security standards.
Ahead of HIMSS26, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Thomas Keane discusses his plans for the show and discusses TEFCA, HTI-4, HTI-5, imaging data, behavioral health exchange and more.