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Planning Key for Strong Health IT Infrastructure Interoperability

Health IT infrastructure interoperability depends on successfully connecting new and legacy systems so they are compatible and can exchange data.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- Improving data sharing between new and legacy systems is one of the top challenges facing current health IT infrastructure. Organizations need to focus on their system interoperability to successfully integrate new tools into their health IT ecosystems.

Creating a roadmap that considers all system connections when introducing a new tool into the IT infrastructure is the first step to ensuring that interoperability among old and new systems is a priority, according to a recent survey conducted by MeriTalk and Red Hat.

Organizations should then audit their applications and systems to gain a clear understanding of what’s in their IT infrastructure. Considering the cloud and what can be moved to the cloud can also help solve storage and interoperability issues.