Interoperability is one of healthcare’s biggest dilemmas, with providers trapped between growing needs for expanded use of health data and a host of compliance, legal and regulatory constraints.

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 ...

It’s not unusual for patients to feel powerless in the domain of health care. Records, charts, imaging, test results and other health data have often been kept at arm’s length, with the main way to ...

COVID-19 highlighted the lack of interoperability in our health systems. Here's how ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) networks could help prepare for the next pandemic.

Public CIOs are acknowledging interoperability as a winning strategy for handling low budgets and high demand for quality health care and human services. CIOs can play a critical role in fostering ...

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 ...

And that’s not all. Moving to three dimensional interoperability will bring myriad benefits to major stakeholders, as outlined in Elster’s 360 Degree Solution Model chart below. Figure 4 – The 360 ...

When industry leaders collaborate to create a standard, the reason always cited is “interoperability”.Yet do we really understand what is meant by this seemingly simple term? Because there is ...