Mr. Christian, the vice president of technology and chief technology officer of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health, has served as an executive with the Indiana Health Information Exchange. He’s ...

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 ...

Providers have very important resident care, service and reimbursement issues facing them on an ongoing basis — all of which can be improved with appropriate information technology applications. To ...

Information sharing and interoperability have come a long way since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but challenges still remain, agreed speakers and panelists on the first day of the ...

The aim is to provide a common language that makes it easier to share data from disparate sources, along with tools and techniques to make the sharing safer. Open Source The Office of the Director of ...

As more devices use data to function, more advances are needed to ensure those devices can properly utilize and communicate that data with other devices, necessitating the notion of interoperability.

Epic plans to join the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a new health information exchange network that aims to improve health data interoperability across the U.S. Epic has ...

On February 22, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule designed to help patients more easily access their complete health information in interoperable forms ...

On Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions weighed the opportunities and challenges ahead as the interoperability provisions of the 21st Century Cures ...

Have you ever shown up for a prescribed medical test, but no one at the testing facility can locate your doctor’s order? Have you ever been referred to a specialist who orders the same medical tests ...