So many topics to cover in healthcare but tragically so little time! We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject. The video below is a compilation of their answers.
Here’s a quick summary of what everyone is saying in the video:
Laura Young, Executive Director at San Diego Health Connect – I think that community information exchange, which is typically around the social determinants of health data, and that integration with a health information exchange is being done by a few organizations but isn’t being talked about enough.
Susan Clark, Principal Health IT Consultant at Briljent – Usability workflow – what happens in real life, on the ground, and the people who are interacting.
Scott Stuewe, President and CEO at DirectTrust – For the people who are trying to make these TEFCA decisions – If they’re going to be participants under a QHIN, the QHIN is going to have to be something to mitigate their risk associated with these partners that are beneath them.
Kathryn Bingman, Vice President of Interoperability Adoption at eHealthExchange – Right now with TEFCA, the initial use cases are just treatment and individual access. People are exchanging very successfully for treatment purposes, but down the road, we’re going to be adding additional use cases. We really want people to adopt TEFCA before those additional use cases, but we haven’t been talking enough about the adoption.
Gregg Church, President at 4medica – Data quality and patient identification. We’re doing all this great work to bring these data sets together, but to make it usable, informational, and keep the patient at the focus, we need to think about the quality of the data first.
Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – We’re working with standards today and pushing the boundaries wherever we can, but as health data utilities continue to formalize and get adopted within this industry, I think it’s going to be very fascinating to see what other use cases can be done.
Justin Villines, MBA, HIT Policy Director at SHARE HIE – I think listening to our customers and our participants.
Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Senior Director of Community Strategy at DirectTrust – I would love to see more people of the spirit of #TeamInterop and talking about collaboration.
Huge thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to come speak with us to make this video possible! And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this and watch the video!! We wouldn’t be here without your support and we would love to hear from you as well. Comment down below or on social media what healthcare interoperability topic you think isn’t being talked about enough.
