Interoperability

Aneesh Chopra, former chief technical officer for the United States, urges developers to leverage open API ecosystems.

Despite their apparent promise to advance interoperability of clinical and claims data, exactly when the Blue Button 2.0 and MyHealthEData initiatives that CMS unveiled at HIMSS18 will be fully implemented remains unclear.

While last year was focused on capturing useful data, now we need to draw insights from that data across the entire care continuum.

The full value of FHIR is still years in the making, says one expert.

When the thrill of electronic health record implementation is over, hospital and IT execs are left to wonder: We are live on the EHR, so now what?

With better coordinated care, providers will be able to make more informed decisions and their patients will experience better outcomes.

Information must be shared outside of the healthcare network in which it resides to allow all of a patient’s valuable data to be available to all of their providers.

Mike Restuccia has seen firsthand the challenges and opportunities of deriving as much value as possible from your electronic health records software.

Sachin Shetty, associate professor at Old Dominion University's Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research, is excited about blockchain's potential, and is doing research with Sentara Healthcare into how it could be deployed. But privacy and scalability pose challenges, he said.

Advisory Board Senior Vice President Rob Barras discusses the need for providers to start locally to spark interoperability while recognizing there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.