Interoperability

From chatbots mining social media to wearables and trendy tools, Healthcare IT News' Best Hospital IT Department winners discuss the top tech poised to have a critical impact on their organizations' future.

The president-elect has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the industry.

In its annual report to Congress, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT touts widespread EHR usage and an increase in health information exchange. But the agency says there's still work do be done to make true interoperability a success.  

CIOs from Healthcare IT News Best Hospital IT Departments 2016 share their take on the fate of electronic health records. 

The Obama appointee also shed light on what’s necessary for digitizing and transforming an enterprise. 

Contest seeks innovative uses of APIs thay can enable consumers to more easily share their personal health data.

In his new book, "It's About Patient Care: Transforming Healthcare Information Technology the Cleveland Clinic Way," Harris gives firsthand perspective on the ways IT-enabled, patient-centric care can effect big improvements in clinical quality.

The final rule also drops clinical decision support and computerized order entry objectives and measures.

Duke became one of the first hospitals to integrate with Apple HealthKit via Epic, and to use the platform to incorporate patient-generated health data into its EHR.

By leveraging analytics and lean approaches to IT, the Louisiana system has logged wins on sepsis, a total joint program and pneumonia care.