Interoperability

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By Paul J. Williams 10:27 am June 01, 2023
Common platform + standard infrastructure + unified support = reduced variability and increased predictability.
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By Eddie Ades 05:05 pm March 14, 2023
To succeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must overhaul the way data is collected and shared. Technology-driven collaboration will be critical to rebuilding the trust of agency partners.
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By Joyoti Goswami 11:30 am November 30, 2022
While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.
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By David Chou 01:02 pm June 17, 2022
Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.
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By Kevin Vigilante 10:48 am May 09, 2022
Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.
By Lindsey Ferris 04:33 pm January 31, 2022
As Medicaid programs determine what's next for health IT investments, state and regional HIEs, increasingly serving as "health data utilities," are natural partners to build on current programs with Medicaid Enterprise System funding.
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By Joyoti Goswami 11:23 am December 10, 2021
In the COVID-19 era, health systems recognize that existing data infrastructure is inadequate. Here are three things large datasets need to be useful.
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By Charles Alessi 05:24 am December 07, 2021
Health is in the throes of some of the most significant changes as systems reel from a variety of rapidly changing environments. Dr Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS, explores lessons learned, as we look cautiously to a better 2022.
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