Interoperability

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Epic is applauding the move, and says it expects that all of its clients nationwide will be live on the exchange framework by the end of next year, via its Epic Nexus qualified health information network.

At the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase, a sample use case demonstrated how Italians can share health records across its multiple regions thanks to the country's adoption of international data standards.

Greg LeGrow, executive director of payer product market strategy at athenahealth and Mark Fleming, senior director of product at Availity, credited FHIR interoperability for greater efficiency in automating the electronic PA process.

Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.

The company announced on Patch Tuesday that among 90 CVEs for August – including six zero-day exploits – the Azure Connected Machine Agent had a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability.

A demonstration at the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase highlighted how the eHealthPass app and the International Patient Summary can help traveling Europeans quickly share their medical records to access needed care.

Healthcare organizations will need to go through a three-step process to achieve post-quantum safety: Discover, observe and transform, says Scott Crowder, vice president of IBM's quantum-safe adoption team.  

Interoperability standards were originally developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to allow different clinical systems within hospitals to exchange data with the patient registration system. Infor Cloverleaf®, one of the original interface engines in use then, is still the core interoperability engine for more than one-third of U.S. hospitals.

A prehospital health information exchange in Michigan that provides bidirectional interoperability will bridge ambulatory data gaps and enhance care coordination en route to the hospital and during post-discharge care transitions.