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

Lloyd Price

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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API mania misses the point on healthcare interoperability

Import Immunity

My plan was to just go quietly into the night, but looking through the recently-released Meaningful Use 3 requirements convinced me that I really ought to put this out there. So what about these technologies made them unsuitable for real use? But old-school interoperability just punted on the problem.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components.

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Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Oscar and the Clinic collaborated and created an interoperability solution that yielded better analytics leading to improved ability of clinicians to manage patients and improved patient engagement. Everything doesn’t need to be on the same platform but everything needs to interoperate, communicate, share data.

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Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Oscar and the Clinic collaborated and created an interoperability solution that yielded better analytics leading to improved ability of clinicians to manage patients and improved patient engagement. Everything doesn’t need to be on the same platform but everything needs to interoperate, communicate, share data.