Interoperability

The general manager of IBM Watson Health talks digital transformation, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, blockchain, quantum computing and more.

When we talk about connected care and interoperability, we tend to do so within an outdated framework that prioritises ‘medicine’ over ‘health’. We shouldn’t get stuck there, writes Dr Charles Alessi, HIMSS International chief clinical officer.

In a region of 10 million residents, the nonprofit Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services is helping achieve care coordination, closing care gaps when providers are able to access data at the point of care, using a central interoperable platform.

As a first year medical student in 1978, a young Donald Rucker was exposed to early health technology at his American university and knew there had to be a better way to communicate critical information.

The ability to gain access to the data through reusable APIs significantly improves developer productivity, enabling CIOs to achieve more with the same resources.

Apple, IBM and Microsoft were some of the nearly 30 stakeholders asking CMS and ONC to "expeditiously finalize" the rules – but EHR vendors were not among them.

The co-founder of the EHR maker explains why these trends are key to CIOs and other healthcare leaders, and digs into SMART on FHIR.

Creating a robust API infrastructure - a living system where everything is connected so data is available for decision-making – is the goal, says Yauheni Solad, medical director of digital health at Yale New Haven Health.

Atefeh Riazi comes to MSK Cancer Center from the United Nations, where she was chief information technology officer.

Intermountain's longtime chief information officer will receive the John E. Gall Jr. award at HIMSS20 in Orlando this March.