Interoperability

Tech initiative enables hospitals across the Carolinas to build apps that merge patient records.

While Intel, Beth Israel Deaconess and others threw their support behind the CMS proposed plan to make interoperability mandatory for Medicaid and Medicare billing, AHA and other stakeholders slammed the proposal as “premature” and “duplicative.”

Healthcare has struggled with data sharing for a long time but, even still, experts said the future will be robust as emerging technologies and standards become more common.

The CHIO will support health IT management and technology innovation policy within the agency, while coordinating those efforts among staff.

In a letter to CMS, Pew says patient matching unlocks critical information, but identification is often elusive and better standards are needed.

SAN DIEGO - Atul Gawande, MD, addressed a range of topics concerning the direction healthcare needs to move at America's Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo Thursday.

The database will help EHR vendors incorporate health IT standards to smooth the exchange of patient information across care settings.

The event, on Aug. 13, will host app developers to build and innovate software that can help patients access and understand their health data, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said.

London-based Medicalchain is partnering with the health system to pilot an array of different distributed ledger projects.

Veterans Health Affairs’ director of standards and interoperability warns that FHIR is not a cure all, just one valuable asset in a tech toolbox.