Interoperability

Organization’s chief discusses these issues in advance of a free informational teleconference September 26 as part of National Health IT Week.

Top takeaways from a month of reporting on today's current state and the future of health data sharing.

As health systems merge, the need to reconcile data sets from disparate EHR systems for population health and quality improvement is critical, and artificial intelligence can help, the company says.

The hospital has been able to use the Amazon Web Services-based interface engine to send hundreds of millions of messages both internally and externally.

The HIMSS Insights eBook on connected care and interoperability looked at the impact and potential of the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE).

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.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT made interoperability news on several fronts Friday: granting a much-requested 30-day extension for public comments on its proposed data exchange, information blocking and patient access rules and publishing the second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

Bridge Connector says its “no-code” iPaaS platform can be used to integrate a variety of data sources.

A new survey from the American Telemedicine Association assesses the current state of data exchange standards for remote care and offers best practices for health systems looking to capitalize on its potential.

Three experts discuss how application programming interfaces help enable system interoperability, and describe what the role of APIs will be in the future.