Interoperability

The 13-hospital network's CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.

Dr. Steven Lane, chief medical officer at Health Gorilla and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient, says that, even as progress has been made for interoperability over the past 10 years, broader data sharing through TEFCA is still in its early stages.

It aims to consolidate access to digital health records across regions.

Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.

While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.

With an eye toward the next decade of data exchange, pop health and informatics experts offered some policy ideas to help White House accomplish "big, bold things" for healthcare interoperability.

Where updates have been made, patient satisfaction has increased, she says.

Healthcare leaders share insights on successfully deploying screening and early disease detection technologies.

The health system sees about 50 cases per day with one of its referring health systems – more than 18,000 cases per year where care is improved and patients and their families have a better experience, the CDIO reports.