Interoperability

A digital divide creates a barrier for those who would wish to have fuller participation in their own care.

TEFCA has potential to remove a lot of the friction around what it takes to achieve interoperability, a HIMSS23 panel said.

An El Paso-based health information exchange looked at how centralized data was of value to patient outcomes and improved provider stakeholder engagement and growth.

So says David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, a HIMSS23 exhibitor, who dives into these trends, and talks about actionable data at the point of care.

HDUs enable specific, defined use cases, with extra protections to ensure patient privacy and protection.

Modernizing data means shifting it from an asset to a utility, to ensure its usable for patients, providers and payers, a HIMSS23 panel said.

"This is not your father’s Meditech," quips Michelle O'Connor, Meditech's president and CEO, who discusses the vendor's new innovations at the conference this week.

At HIMSS23, Didi Davis, VP of informatics, conformance and interoperability at TEFCA's recognized coordinating entity, will discuss the the Data Usability Implementation Guide v.1, published this past year.

In his upcoming HIMSS23 presentation, Kyndryl's Trent Sanders will present how rallying around your north star system and changing operational behaviors can drive analytics, reduce technology footprints and help solve for 'the golden concepts.'

In a preview of his HIMSS23 session, David Murtagh, VP of operations at MultiPlan – which cofounded the alliance with United Healthcare, Humana and others – discusses emerging payer and provider use cases for distributed ledger technology.