Interoperability

The seven members with medical, informatics, IT, data and health information exchange expertise will serve a three-year term on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the American Medical Association, Race Forward and several partners launched Rise to Health to transform healthcare with shared solutions and collective actions.

An expert walks through the issues and trends she eyes as most important in the year ahead and offers advice on how to tackle related challenges.

Stella Ramette, the company's director of customer relations and sales in Southeast Asia, says InterSystems is gaining insights from the wealth of patient data around the Asia-Pacific region as it takes on interoperability challenges.

Aster DM Healthcare has been working to connect its hospitals through a single interoperable platform as part of its digital transformation efforts.

Its new Connection Hub, which opens to app developers on January 9, 2023, offers another instance of API-enabled information exchange and support for open standards and interoperability, the company says.

Insufficient government funding, a lack of interoperability and a scarcity of technology in general are leaving tribal communities underserved, says Tyler LaPlaunt, assistant director at Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions.

The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience emphasizes the need for digital transformation, even amid economic uncertainty. Jan-Willem Scheijgrond, global head of government and public affairs at Philips, unpacks the new report.

 Efficiencies introduced in these policies would save physician practices and hospitals more than $15B over a 10-year period, CMS says.

So say experts from Unite Us, who also offer a deep dive into health equity in 2022 and 2023.