Interoperability
Cloud giants are poised to reshape the industry with FHIR and open APIs to unleash the power of consumerism.
With more than 700 developers now in the Blue Button sandbox, officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Digital Service say we are just scratching the surface of what the API-first approach can accomplish.
Speaking at the White House, she said the potential of what unleashed health data could do for the country is "really unimaginable."
At the White House, technology heavy-hitters promise to work together improving data exchange by embracing FHIR, the Argonaut Project and more.
The technology alone won’t fix patient ID issues but it can bring some of the data accessibility, interoperability, integrity and security hospitals need.
Firm identifies a series of barriers that the growing medtech industry will need to address and says interoperability is the hardest.
More than 3 million patient records were breached between April and June, highlighting an even bigger issue: Risk increases over time without proper education or reporting.
Making security personal to employees and engaging future generations to rekindle the dwindling talent pool are a good start.
Security researchers notified the open source EHR managing software of nearly 30 critical vulnerabilities – the second set of vulnerabilities found in a year.
Tech, policy and an ecosystem of smartphone platforms are all cause to be very optimistic, says Ricky Bloomfield, MD.