Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Tohoku University's Dr. Masaharu Nakayama talks about how his group was able to withstand the disruption of Japan's 2011 earthquake and why that level of resilience is difficult to maintain.
Innovation
Vendors offer their perspective on the opportunities and challenges for healthcare data exchange in the year ahead.
Available on the AWS Marketplace, the new Interoperability Land offers a platform to develop and test different versions of DSTU3, STU3, R4 FHIR, SMART on FHIR and other standards.
By investing in R&D for the HL7 spec, the National Institutes of Health can boost the utility of EHR data for research, and encourage other clinical innovations, the informatics group says.
Malaffi CEO Atif Albraiki says simultaneous provider projects, such as health information exchanges, make EMR adoption a challenge at times in the UAE, but he encourages stakeholders to learn from global experiences.
The collaboration will also enable broader coordination of the central intake of referrals received electronically, by fax or hard copy into a universal form for acceptance, triaging and processing.
Indiana Health Information Exchange and Michiana Health Information Network will merge in 2020, at which point all MHIN employees will become IHIE employees, with offices in Indianapolis and South Bend.
Sam Shah, digital health advisor and former NHSX director of digital development, says personal health records, health information exchange and other digital health learnings can be extracted from the Middle East experiences.
The number of healthcare organizations served by DirectTrust health information service providers and engaged in Direct exchange was up nearly 75% in Q3. New members include Konica Minolta and the Social Security Administration.
They'll create and update new standards, profiles and implementation guides, helping to transition to more modern APIs that make it easier to exchange data securely via smartphone.