Interoperability

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield says the controversial new process, which calls on hospitals to send capacity and utilization data via the HHS Protect system, was made with CDC support.

By moving all military treatment facilities under the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the DoD has ushered in a new era of data integration within the military health system.

A blog post published in Health Affairs outlines a framework for tracking the effectiveness of stakeholder behavior in response to ONC data-sharing rules.   

The military health system is challenged to keep medical data intact as a wounded warfighter moves through a system that can’t transmit it. Now new technologies are bringing bandwidth to frontline treatment.

A new generation of medical sensors will enable real-time collection of health data from warfighters, even in the most volatile threat situations.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT found that the majority of centers used a combination of electronic and paper methods to manage client health information in 2017.

To treat U.S. warfighters effectively, the military health system must integrate medical data that’s been siloed in out-of-date systems — and do it in situations where bandwidth is scarce. 

Research conducted last year by consulting company Roland Berger predicts that the German digital health market volume will grow exponentially in coming years.

The post-acute care group won back time it could spend with patients and saved $300,000 through interoperability.

After 15 years as a health IT innovation leader, the nonprofit MAeHC will be winding down operations in 2020, with many of its assets transferred to other like-minded organizations.