Interoperability
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Hyland Healthcare's vendor-neutral solutions address the problem of interoperability with existing or new systems, says Peter Weston, healthcare sales manager at Hyland.
Among the biggest obstacles to reimbursement are the lack of interoperability and patients not owning their data, says Rob Lieberthal, principal of health economics at MITRE.
Seqster's technology can collect users' EHR, DNA and wearables data, giving its customers the ability to share their health information on their terms, says founder and CEO Ardy Arianpour.
Grahame Grieve, FHIR product director for HL7 International, says in addition to being a standard for exchanging healthcare data, FHIR is a community of people who aims to create a "public treasure" that we all own.
The Stewards of Change Institute is convening diverse industry stakeholders to tackle big challenges such as patient matching, says Daniel Stein, the group's president.
Dr. Donald Rucker, chief of the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology, discusses the opportunities the 21st Century Cures Act provides for health tech startups.
St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan used a "go slow, but go steady" strategy to make small, incremental changes to overcome resistance to moving from paper to digital systems, says Director Shinji Yamamoto.
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Issues such as fragmented care and social determinants drive the need for interoperability when delivering healthcare to populations, explains David Hancock, healthcare executive advisor at InterSystems.
The industry has moved from solving problems in silos to understanding the associated workflows and then coming to solutions that meet the market need, says Julie Smith, clinical product manager at InterSystems.
Dr. Robert Pearl, author of "Mistreated," discusses ways the American healthcare system needs improvement and how technology can help make it happen.

