Imagine a world where all patient health information is stored in one central place, allowing physicians to share information seamlessly across different platforms. The global healthcare ecosystem is ever-changing…
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By Steven Posnack & Chris Muir – The ONC published the draft 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) for public comment. The ISA is a coordinated catalog of standards and implementation specifications.
By Matt Fisher – A lot of time and attention has been put into the notion of interoperability by almost every stakeholder in the healthcare system.
By Dr. Vindell Washington – Hospitals across the country continue to make progress toward the goal of ensuring that health information flows where it is needed the most. Today, almost all U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals have certified EHR technology and 82% are electronically exchanging health data outside their organization – double the percentage from 2008.
Carefluence has the first open application programming interface (API) software platform certified by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, providing any currently deployed EHR software with a standards-based open API solution.
By Sarianne Gruber – At the Inforum 2016, I meet Joel Rydbeck and learn how their software and cloud services help their clients advance towards interoperability. A very timely conversation given ONC’s release of two measures addressing ‘widespread interoperability’, as required by MACRA.
By Matt Patterson MD – In a variety of recent private and panel discussions with health and policy leaders, I’ve heard encouraging talk around interoperability through open and available application programming interfaces (APIs).
By Seth Pazinski & Talisha Searcy – In April we asked for your input and comments on ways for us to measure how well our nation’s health care system is doing in achieving “widespread interoperability,” as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
By Roger Davis – “We are deadly serious about interoperability.” – Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the CMS at the J. P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco in January 2016. For those of us in the healthcare vendor community, that defining statement sets the tone for the future interaction between organizations.