interoperability

Dr. Harm Scherpbier, HealthShare Exchange CMIO, describes how the company's platform connects practices, payers and ACOs, allowing them to share patients’ data in real time across facilities to coordinate care seamlessly.  

Scott Stuewe, DirectTrust president and CEO, discusses the company’s health app program to support stakeholders within the FHIR ecosystem and how it allows companies to exchange information securely through direct, secure messaging.   

Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, discusses how TEFCA's interoperability framework can help bring social determinants of health data from community organizations like food pantries into patients’ records for a more complete view of their health.

Garrett Singletary, senior software engineer of data and AI at Concord Technologies, talks about how digitizing manually faxed data reduces clinicians’ workload and facilitates data exchange between providers.  

Robert Havasy, HIMSS senior director of informatics strategy, relays how the nonprofit works with governments to move healthcare and AI forward and the need to improve interoperability as artificial intelligence progresses in healthcare.

Dr. Maria Carolina Aguirre, CMO at FCV-HIC (Hospital Internacional de Colombia), discusses nonprofit organization Hl7, promoting collaboration between Colombia and outside regions, and her path to becoming a HIMSS Changemaker.

Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, discusses the benefits and use cases of a qualified health information network, places where interoperability falls short in the healthcare sector and the opportunity for QHINs to increase connectivity.  

Micky Tripathi, ONC national coordinator, discusses TEFCA's FAST track to FHIR exchange, the FHIR roadmap, concerns among EHR vendors on electronic case reporting and supporting data scalability to enable payers to advance interoperability.

Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and cohost of CancerX, highlights ONC's annual meeting and how data with interoperability, privacy and security protections can fundamentally change oncology outcomes.  

Holly Miller, chief medical officer at MedAllies, discusses the Sequoia Project's Data Usability Taking Root initiative around adoption of the Data Usability Implementation Guide, which underscores interoperability of trustworthy, usable data.