Interoperability

Some hospitals don't want to share data, and some are not able to, says Prof. Alexander Geissler from the University of St. Gallen. Germany's national digital maturity assessment has revealed that interoperability is a major barrier.

Interoperability isn't enough. Providers need to quickly access the most relevant patient information at the point of care. Bill Hayes, MD, chief medical officer at CPSI, talks about how machine learning he calls "cognitive logic" could help.

The chief medical information officer at German Heart Center Berlin discusses how artificial intelligence and interoperability are enabling leading-edge medical care for patients.

Smile, a FHIR-based enterprise data platform, can help various healthcare stakeholders manage data from a variety of sources. Duncan Weatherston, Smile's CEO, explains how.

Simon Bolton, CEO at NHS Digital, describes a new program to improve the digital capability of the UK's hospital trusts. Successful technology integration, he says, depends on getting people onboard.

Drew Ivan, chief strategy officer at Lyniate, speaks about the recent merger with NextGate, building interfaces and managing identities – and how data exchange requires constant maintenance and improvement.

Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.

Jan Larsson, senior advisor at Cambio Healthcare Systems, sees Finland as leading interoperability, and underlines automation's importance for healthcare.

Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.

Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health information technology, discusses info blocking rules, FHIR APIs and what's to come in the next year.