Interoperability

The FHIR-enabled platform supports provider tools that integrate algorithms and machine learning to improve patient diagnoses.

Sharing patient information electronically from a hospital to post-acute care is not widespread, providers told CMS.

How healthcare organizations can boost their data quality.

In Episode 3 of "Unlocking Big Data," sponsored by Arcadia, Anne Snowdon, Chief Scientific Research Officer at HIMSS, and Mary Kuchenbrod, Vice President, Data Operations at Arcadia, discuss the need for data accuracy in healthcare.

CHICAGO – "Without health there is nothing," said Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe at the World Health Organization, during the morning keynote Thursday at HIMSS23.

Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

A digital divide creates a barrier for those who would wish to have fuller participation in their own care.

TEFCA has potential to remove a lot of the friction around what it takes to achieve interoperability, a HIMSS23 panel said.

An El Paso-based health information exchange looked at how centralized data was of value to patient outcomes and improved provider stakeholder engagement and growth.

So says David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, a HIMSS23 exhibitor, who dives into these trends, and talks about actionable data at the point of care.