Interoperability

"Both the image and the report have to be available to anyone involved in the care of the patient, at any time from anywhere – including the patient," says the health system's chief health informatics officer Dr. David Kaelber in a HIMSS25 preview.

Former Georgia rep Doug Collins, President Donald Trump's choice for Veterans Affairs secretary, told members of Congress that the minimal deployment of the new electronics health records system "is not acceptable."

The company says in a 46-page detailed argument that Epic sought to deliberately eliminate its ability to gain payer market share and "brazenly doubles and triples down on knowingly false statements about Particle in its motion."

Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.

A health IT CEO offers his view of the next year in healthcare and technology, pointing to AI's true transformative power operating quietly in the background and mounting pressure for providers to reassess their digital investments.

A large children’s hospital is seeing significant cost and time savings after implementing RFID to track high-value medications.

Janice Reese, program manager of FAST (FHIR at Scale Task Force), says making patient access simpler is a key benefit, along with identity consent and security.

These key strategies can help build trust and align goals with vendors.

The court battle with Particle Health highlights how national health information exchange networks rely on a chain of trust that can be broken, jeopardizing patient privacy under HIPAA.