Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The executive director of research at the cloud IT giant describes what CIOs and other healthcare leaders should be looking for at the global conference in March.

A Regenstrief informatics expert will show at HIMSS20 how the Indiana Network for Population Health is evolving as "novel data infrastructure" to address the root conditions for better health.

Tohoku University's Dr. Masaharu Nakayama talks about how his group was able to withstand the disruption of Japan's 2011 earthquake and why that level of resilience is difficult to maintain.

Vendors offer their perspective on the opportunities and challenges for healthcare data exchange in the year ahead.

Malaffi CEO Atif Albraiki says simultaneous provider projects, such as health information exchanges, make EMR adoption a challenge at times in the UAE, but he encourages stakeholders to learn from global experiences.

Sam Shah, digital health advisor and former NHSX director of digital development, says personal health records, health information exchange and other digital health learnings can be extracted from the Middle East experiences.

Dr. Steve Lockhart, CMO at Sutter Health, discusses social determinants of health, why unequal care is among the "most disappointing elements" of the U.S. healthcare system and how to fix that.

Audacious Inquiry President Scott Afzal says his company created an encounter notification service for physicians that has become the starting point for using triggered events for a health information exchange.

Transparency with fair data usage is being explored in Finland, while the country's general outlook is that data should be shared and used to improve services where possible, says Jaana Sinipuro, project director at Sitra.

State and regional HIEs have the deep experience necessary to improve interoperability – which is about more than just moving patient data from one point to another, says John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.