Interoperability

A quick look back at the competing specs for clinical coding and data exchange gives a glimpse of the some of the challenges still ongoing today.

One of the challenges with patient-generated data is figuring out how to use it for predicting future health events, says Mayo Clinic Medical Informaticist Dr. Karl Poterack.

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary details how policy changes are advancing interoperability and offers insight into information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.

Interoperability is the cornerstone of advanced clinical decision support and knowledge management to fulfill the promise of patient engagement and consumer-directed exchange, says HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.

The data liquidity issue will soon be resolved, leaving data portability as the next interoperability hurdle, says Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO of AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative.

Shaping the future of healthcare IT requires an understanding of common problems and solving them in a whole health economy – inside and outside of the hospital, says Mike Fuller, regional managing director at InterSystems.

Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at HIMSS, says tools exist to engage patients with their data in ways that create a good relationship with providers — when the technology doesn't get in the way.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf discusses with a panel of luminaries in the field of healthcare the interoperability rule that gives people full access to their clinical records.

A price transparency service allows providers to make choices that are in the clinical and economic best interests of the patient, says Andrew Mellin, VP and medical informatics physician at Surescripts.

Christel Anderson, senior director of Interoperability Initiatives for HIMSS, talks about a HIMSS19 showcase dealing with topics including data sharing, patient engagement and social determinants of health that intersect with interoperability.