Interoperability

In a region of 10 million residents, the nonprofit Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services is helping achieve care coordination, closing care gaps when providers are able to access data at the point of care, using a central interoperable platform.

As a first year medical student in 1978, a young Donald Rucker was exposed to early health technology at his American university and knew there had to be a better way to communicate critical information.

The ability to gain access to the data through reusable APIs significantly improves developer productivity, enabling CIOs to achieve more with the same resources.

Apple, IBM and Microsoft were some of the nearly 30 stakeholders asking CMS and ONC to "expeditiously finalize" the rules – but EHR vendors were not among them.

The co-founder of the EHR maker explains why these trends are key to CIOs and other healthcare leaders, and digs into SMART on FHIR.

Creating a robust API infrastructure - a living system where everything is connected so data is available for decision-making – is the goal, says Yauheni Solad, medical director of digital health at Yale New Haven Health.

Atefeh Riazi comes to MSK Cancer Center from the United Nations, where she was chief information technology officer.

Intermountain's longtime chief information officer will receive the John E. Gall Jr. award at HIMSS20 in Orlando this March.

The company has been lobbying hospital leaders to oppose them – and has said it might sue HHS, depending on the final rules' data provisions. Meanwhile, some patient advocates are also speaking out.

Dr. Larry Allen, the medical director of advanced heart failure at University of Colorado School of Medicine, describes why the health industry should be excited over the advancements in EHR technologies.