interoperability

Prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to put data into a state system for use in making informed care decisions, according to New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin.

Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch says biometrics can be used to foster interoperability, but questions about privacy and security need to be answered first.

Applying AI to improve care delivery and patient experience requires curated data, supercomputing infrastructure and the ability to model algorithms on neural networks, says Jörg Aumüller, head of digitalizing healthcare marketing, Siemens Healthineers.

The concept of interoperability is frustrating. Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect, explains why.

Central Georgia Health Network VP Jodi Ingram and CIO Gabriel Orthous say speaking both the payers’ and the providers’ languages is key to getting them to trust each other.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche recounts how healthcare interoperability has progressed from the early days, when there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels.

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary offers insight into policy changes that are advancing interoperability, as well as information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf says talks about the shift from deploying healthcare technology to the use of the information to make better decisions in care.

Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO of AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative, says the data liquidity issue is being addressed, leaving data portability as the next interoperability hurdle.

Brendan Lovelock, health practice lead at Cisco Systems, discusses the advantages of linking the enormous amount of data generated by EMRs as well as consumer and enterprise devices in the same clinical space.