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 ...

Interoperability is one of the most complex and challenging imperatives for healthcare. But it's a matter healthcare chief information officers and other health IT leaders must tackle. A good way of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed more light on the pressing need for health information technology (HIT) interoperability. With a surge in patients at hospitals and emergency rooms, providers and ...

Imagine a world in which a teacher begins the school year with a comprehensive personal profile of each student in her class—a report that incorporates insights on academic performance, ...

Even as the healthcare information technology (IT) field has made strides to facilitate cooperation between EHRs (electronic health records), it’s become abundantly clear that we still have a way to ...

Interoperability is the seamless, secure, and controlled exchange of data between applications. Implementing interoperability can bring information from edtech tools together to holistically ...

Quality healthcare relies on the ability of providers to share patient data and coordinate care. A patient may visit their primary care physician at the beginning of a care episode and then be ...

With nearly 28 years of experience with the Lexington Division of Police and 15 months as director of Lexington Enhanced 911, I’ve seen the realities of next-generation public safety communications — ...

By Dr. Kofi Anokye OWUSU-DARKOGhana’s digital transformation journey has gained significant momentum over the past decade. From the rollout of the Ghana Card and the Digital Address System to mobile ...

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 ...

The future of interoperability is already here. It just hasn’t been evenly distributed. Certainly, the healthcare interoperability movement has made strides in recent years, but there is still ...

A Health Affairs report on health information interoperability by staffers of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provides a good enough summary of the ...