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UPMC’s Cloud-Based OS Boosts Healthcare Interoperability

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing in a cloud-based healthcare operating system (hcOS) to improve healthcare interoperability and break down data silos.

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By Fred Donovan

- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing in a cloud-based healthcare operating system (hcOS) to improve healthcare interoperability and break down data silos.  

The downloadable operating system is designed to make it easy for app developers to build software solutions that access clinical data and clinical systems.

“The IT problem we are trying to solve is interoperability. We are trying to access all of the healthcare data that can solve healthcare problems for healthcare participants in a way that makes it easy for them to access the data,” said Tal Heppenstall, president of UPMC Enterprises, the commercialization arm of UPMC.