Interoperability

"Our technology needs to be reliable. It needs to be understandable. It needs to be complementary. It needs to enable, not disable," said Dr. David Feinberg at the Cerner Health Conference on Tuesday.

Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics & Health IT Standards at HIMSS, details three big trends he sees in health IT standards around public health, global health and the API economy.

Under the three-year engagement, the organisations will develop speciality workshops for professional development.

It is frustrating for time-pressed clinicians to jump from one system to another to mine patient data, but now tried and tested solutions – which enable seamless connectivity between unrelated health systems – are becoming more widely available.

Researchers, including ONC Deputy National Coordinator Steven Posnack, noted that existing sex and gender data-collection practices do not meaningfully reflect patient identity and diversity.

Kash Patel will join the New Jersey health system as chief information and digital engagement officer.

Company CIO Blackford Middleton wrote in a LinkedIn post that the healthcare collaboration software vendor had "run out of runway" in terms of funding and resources.

Committed to a "Digital Hippocratic Oath," the provider-led Graphite Health platform aims to build an app ecosystem to enable plug-and-play interoperability for health systems and patients.

Dr. David Nace, Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer, talks about what happens when providers bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey.

All U.S. employees must be fully vaccinated by December 8, the company said on Friday, as the new CEO pledged to spend every day "thinking about how to use technology to improve people’s lives."