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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. The 21st Century Cures Act will make digital health data even more accessible with the call for open APIs.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. 46 As patients independently bring mobile health data to clinicians (e.g., a glucometer) with software (e.g., ” .