Interoperability
Greg LeGrow, executive director of payer product market strategy at athenahealth and Mark Fleming, senior director of product at Availity, credited FHIR interoperability for greater efficiency in automating the electronic PA process.
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A demonstration at the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase highlighted how the eHealthPass app and the International Patient Summary can help traveling Europeans quickly share their medical records to access needed care.
Lisa Hanselmann, Inria's European project manager, talks about how the FLUTE project is building a GDPR-compliant federated learning platform to allow researchers to share both real-world and synthetic data on prostate cancer.
As Italy develops a national digital strategy requiring healthcare data exchange across all 20 of its regions, Marco Foracchia, AUSL Reggio Emilia CIO, recommends first steps for hospitals that haven't yet begun digital transformation.
Hyland's recent survey with HIMSS Market Insights found that many healthcare organizations are still struggling to exchange patient data, even after moving to the cloud. Lyle McMillin, the company's principal product manager, unpacks those results.
Zen Healthcare IT's interoperability platform creates a "gateway" for healthcare data exchange between technology vendors and customers, explains Marilee Benson, president and cofounder.
Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, explains that interoperability is fundamental to enabling data-informed patient care decisions and is required for the use of AI and advanced analytics tools.
Through Epic, KeyCare is expanding access to all types of care providers by partnering and coordinating with health systems rather than competing against them, says the virtual care company's CEO Dr. Lyle Berkowitz.
Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird, predicts more clarity on reasonable fees and exceptions, details on sensitive information sharing, and rules about public health IT certification in revised interoperability rules that may drop in June.
HIMSS VP of informatics Christina Caraballo discusses use cases illustrating how the International Patient Summary and cross-border data exchange could help patients access care while traveling.