Interoperability

HL7, CAQH CORE Join to Boost Admin, Clinical System Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Health Level Seven International (HL7) and CAQH CORE are working together to improve interoperability between healthcare administrative and clinical systems.  The two organizations...

ONC Ponies Up Close to $2M for Healthcare Interoperability Work

by Fred Donovan

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded close to $2 million to two organizations in order to fund their work in improving healthcare...

CommonHealth Enables Android Users to Share EHR with Health Apps

by Fred Donovan

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is piloting CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit service designed to enable people to securely collect their electronic health record (EHR) data...

C4MI Launches Program to Verify Medical Device Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The Center for Medical Interoperability (C4MI) has launched an industry-wide program to verify medical device interoperability. The program, called C4MI Verified, is designed to accelerate the...

ONC Selects Sequoia Project to Support Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has inked a cooperative agreement with The Sequoia Project to support nationwide healthcare interoperability. The Sequoia...

Key Steps to Achieve Increased Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

As organizations ponder complying with HHS proposed interoperability rules, they should consider moving beyond regulatory requirements to realize greater healthcare interoperability, advised a new...

VHA’s Lax Health Information Management Created 5-Mile-High Backlog

by Fred Donovan

The Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) poor health information management of medical record scanning has produced a paper record backlog of 600,000 documents, or a stack of paper more...

MyCHOP Portal and App Simplifies Adolescent Proxy Process

by Fred Donovan

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) teamed with chief information officers and chief medical officers from other pediatric healthcare organizations to simplify the adolescent proxy process...

Organizations Face Several Health Data Interoperability Hurdles

by Fred Donovan

There are four main hurdles regarding health data interoperability, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC),...

OSU’s Wexner Medical Center Pilots EMS-Hospital Health Data Exchange

by Fred Donovan

Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center is piloting a project to increase health data exchange between hospitals and emergency medical services, the Columbus-Dispatch reported August...

Healthcare Interoperability Gaps Make It Hard to Use Apps, Share Data

by Fred Donovan

Lack of healthcare interoperability is making it difficult for health systems to use healthcare apps, tap into unstructured data, and reduce the cost of care, according to a survey of 100 IT and...

IT Interoperability Woes Top Tech Worry for Non-hospital Providers

by Fred Donovan

IT interoperability problems were cited as the top technology frustration among 600 non-hospital healthcare providers recently surveyed by Updox. Other technology frustrations named by...

Windows Upgrade Led to Unsecured Health Data Transfers at VA Center

by Fred Donovan

An upgrade of a VA medical center’s operating system to Windows 7 led to the transfer of sensitive information using unsecured means for four years, an audit by the Department of Veterans...

Cloud Providers Reaffirm Support for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce reaffirmed their commitment to healthcare interoperability, particularly the HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)...

CMS Unveils API-based Program to Expand Clinician Access to Health Data

by Fred Donovan

CMS unveiled on July 30 a new pilot program called Data at the Point of Care (DPC), which is based on an industry-standard API designed to give clinicians easier access to a patient’s health...

Senate Bill Would Modernize Public Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

A bipartisan Senate bill introduced this week would invest $100 million per year in modernizing the public health IT infrastructure in the United States. The Saving Lives Through Better Data Act,...

DoD EHR Update Requires Mapping, Testing of Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

The health IT infrastructure needs to be fully mapped and tested to ensure it can support the new electronic health record (EHR) system the Department of Defense (DoD) is implementing, testified Jon...

Rucker: Healthcare Interoperability Stymied by Contracts, IPR

by Fred Donovan

Contractual and intellectual property rights (IPR) are being used to limit access to electronic health information (EHI) and to prevent competition from developers of healthcare interoperability...

Lawmakers Blast DoD Officials Over EHR Implementation Delays

by Fred Donovan

Lawmakers blasted Department of Defense (DoD) officials over delays in the deployment and integration of its new electronic health record (EHR) system, during a May 1 hearing of the House...

Health IT Interoperability Mess Delays Native American Veteran Care

by Fred Donovan

Health IT interoperability obstacles continue to plague federal government efforts to share health data about Native American veterans, concluded a recent Government Accountability Office...