Interoperability
Seattle Children's has launched nationwide network with more 60 other hospitals and health systems to improve ordering, retrieval, interpretation and reimbursement for genetic tests.
The National Quality Forum is set to finalize a framework that can measure health data interoperability and identify gaps in progress.
The opportunities for data exchange improvements are big, both across VA-DoD and among private-sector providers.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT needs more funding than the $38 million Trump allocated to advance interoperability, EHR usability and patient safety, a Pew official said.
USCG ranked interoperability with DoD and VA as a priority while Cerner, meanwhile, has been testing its software on submarines.
While evolving technology is paving the way, high drug costs, limited interoperability and physician skepticism need to be overcome.
Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.
The industry group calls on the HHS secretary to rein in the Office of the National Coordinator from unnecessarily burdensome regulatory authority.
The embattled biotech mogul will join Sutter Health informaticist Steven Lane, MD and Norton Healthcare CIO Steve Ready on the HHS task force established by the 21st Century Cures Act.
CORHIO will launch its first use case in June, while a second use case centered around connected care management platform will launch at a later date.