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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. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Yet, an intrinsic outcome of this personalization is data fragmentation — data points from different doctors, platforms and tools stored in multiple systems, completely disconnected from each other. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

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. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

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. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

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. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

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. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

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. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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