Interoperability

HIMSS' public policy principles suggest AI guardrails to keep AI safe and trustworthy and recommend that they apply across the U.S. to prevent complications for developers, says HIMSS' Jonathan French.

Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, stresses that education and guidance can help ensure that tribal clinic staff understand and use digital health resources and EHRs effectively.

University of Iowa Health Care's Josh Wilda says that TEFCA may be useful not only for providers, but to unify fragmented patient portals and give patients a single access point to retrieve their health data across systems.

Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews to give an insider peek at how companies are working together to accomplish improving healthcare.

Still active in the HIMSS Michigan chapter she started in 2002, SEMHIE VP and CIO Helen Hill, who is a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, says the chapter actively recruits university students to advance advocacy work.

Health Equity Changemaker Awardee and Shift Collective co-founder Dr. Hannah Galvin says the collective is developing terminology value sets to allow patient data to be easily shared across the U.S., and, eventually, globally.

Department of Veterans Affairs CMIO Dr. Jonathan Nebeker says the VA is replacing its legacy custom EHR and looks forward to accessing interoperability solutions that can integrate more digital tools into its new system.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in Italy's healthcare data availability and interoperability, according to Elena Sini of Italy's GVM Care and Research, spurring a nationwide push to improve data quality, access and trust.

Healthcare leaders attending HIMSS26 were most interested in discussing AI, FHIR, interoperability and the quality of providers' data sets, according to on-site interviews.

According to CMS' Amy Gleason, the agency is inspiring innovation by offering vendors the opportunity to develop secure, CARIN code-certified patient-facing apps. These apps will be made available via the Medicare.gov website.