Interoperability

Watch the stream of the Helsinki event's second day in its entirety, with discussions on pressing issues including interoperability and EHRs.

Jeff Coughlin, senior director of Federal and State Affairs at HIMSS, discusses information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.

The new interoperability rules will fuel a new era for consumer healthcare, explains Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures.

Brazil is facing many of the problems common in other countries, notably interoperability, privacy, infrastructure, a large population and the combination of private and public health, says E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake.

New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin discuss how prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to get used to putting data into a state system and getting information out to inform care decisions.

The technology can be used to foster interoperability but there are some key questions that need to be answered first, including ones about privacy and security, says Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch.

Jörg Aumüller, head of digitalizing healthcare marketing at Siemens Healthineers, says putting AI to use in the clinical setting requires curated data, supercomputing infrastructure and the ability to model algorithms on neural networks.

We talk about national interoperability when we need to be focused on common standards across states, says Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect.

Central Georgia Health Network VP Jodi Ingram and CIO Gabriel Orthous say getting providers and payers to trust each other means speaking both of their languages.

Patient-generated data from apps, devices and digital therapeutics will make personal health dashboards that manage wellness possible, says HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance Director of Thought Advisory John Sharp.