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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One thing I've learned in the government is that words matter, and sometimes, particularly in complicated or technical areas, it can be hard to use words that are precise and accurate. Sometimes we ...

Interoperability is one of the most complex and challenging imperatives for healthcare. But it's a matter healthcare chief information officers and other health IT leaders must tackle. A good way of ...

The healthcare industry has notoriously struggled with disconnected data systems and a lack of interoperability. When health information cannot be easily exchanged between different systems and ...

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 ...