Interoperability

Researchers and developers have announced artificial intelligence tools that aim to shrink the time mental health providers spend on administrative tasks, provide faster triage, support clinical decision-making and improve patient access. 

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Healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid work models, with remote employees and mobile clinicians traveling between worksites. The dissolution of the traditional network perimeter and the growing number of both personal and corporate-issued devices accessing the networks are challenges that IT teams must meet with innovative solutions and strategic thinking.

MCPC, a leading IT managed services provider and T-Mobile for Business elite partner, helps healthcare organizations prioritize the patient experience through a comprehensive portfolio of lifecycle services that seamlessly delivers the planning, deployment, ongoing management and cyber hygiene of devices.

Health IT leaders at the recent HIMSS25 Public Health Data Modernization Forum said pushing for more data, and more data exchange, is essential to keeping pace with a fast-evolving healthcare industry.  

Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.

Dr. Steven Lane, chief medical officer at Health Gorilla and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient, says that, even as progress has been made for interoperability over the past 10 years, broader data sharing through TEFCA is still in its early stages.

It aims to consolidate access to digital health records across regions.

While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.