Health IT interoperability is hard. But is it really as hard as it is being made out to be? And yet, with all the confusion and the limited progress of general health IT interoperability, electronic ...

Many devices today center on information in some way; whether it’s biometric, financial, social, or another myriad form of data, communications, and the info it transfers drive many modern-day systems ...

Interoperability is among the HIMSS conference’s hottest topics for the last several years running. And that will certainly be the case at HIMSS17 in February again this year. The show floor features ...

“While healthcare transactions generate an enormous volume of data, too much of it is disjointed and inefficiently used.” The above quote was written by Edmund F. Haislmaier, senior research fellow, ...

As state agencies and healthcare providers face increasing demands to address behavioral health (BH) needs across the U.S., interoperability challenges continue to stand in the way. Manual reporting ...

The game of Telephone is great fun for children but a terrible way to communicate vital health information. Yet in today’s healthcare systems, the multiple fragmented systems can lead to a ...

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of open networking has changed the landscape of the network and datacenter industries. Led by a vanguard of hyperscale Internet companies, open networking is ...

As health data-sharing improves, but at a slow pace, the nation’s largest EHR vendor, Epic, plays a big role in helping to create a clinically interoperable healthcare system. The company controls ...

Interoperability is the ability of a system to work with or use the parts or equipment of another system. The practice of interoperability has become an important topic of discussion in emergency ...

Interoperability enables blockchain networks and protocols to communicate with each other, making it easier for everyday users to engage with blockchain technology. Every year, we see new blockchain ...