Interoperability

National Taiwan University Hospital's vice superintendent, Dr I-Rue Lai, relays the health system's ambition to be a fully value-based, data-enabled care provider, which includes interoperability, internally and with external providers.

According to Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change, a fully interoperable central consent registry will allow everyone in the U.S. the right to choose how, and with whom, their personal and health data is shared.  

Cochairs of FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston, outline how FAST helps roll out FHIR nationally to ensure interoperability of security, privacy and identity by various healthcare stakeholders.  

Jacqueline de Leeuw, chief nurse innovation officer at Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), tells how the hospital achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, allowing its nurses to access a seamless data flow from multiple external sources.

As healthcare organizations embrace new care delivery paradigms with the addition of recent technologies, they must ensure that they have sufficient technical integration to support their goals.  

John Nebergall, chief operating officer of Consensus Cloud Solutions, discusses his experience at HIMSS Global Conference and what he's learned at pre-HIMSS sessions pertaining to interoperability and AI use in a secure environment.

Dr Cátia Pinto, international affairs unit coordinator at SPMS in Portugal, discusses the country’s digital health infrastructure, its use of EU recovery and resilience funds and the creation of an international health data space.

Edward Yurcisin, chief technology officer at NCQA, tells how health plans and organizations can improve healthcare quality by utilizing open-source innovation between payers and providers and how NCQA works to help them achieve that goal.

ZeOmega's Associate VP of interoperability strategy, Michael Gould, and VP of advanced analytics, Pravin Pant, discuss how data can help payers and providers understand patients' social determinants of health and reduce disparities in care access.

Nathan Shepard, Azalea's VP of product, discusses how his company is helping rural providers improve patient care and profitability.