Interoperability

Baptist Health Chief Revenue Officer says the health system will often eat the cost of a service rather than delay care.

Real-time interaction of disparate data exchange will reach across practices, hospitals, public health registries, payers, data aggregators and other EHR systems.

WEDI applauded the pledge made by 60 organizations, including 11 health systems and 5 payers.

One breakthrough that has helped is the ability of ambient AI to document what's happening in the room, says Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications.

MetroHealth is finishing a years-long project to consolidate and archive images so that they are available to providers and patients who should have access, says Dr. David Kaelber, the health system's chief health informatics officer.

Concord Technologies CEO William Cavanaugh said data is one of healthcare's primary challenges, as it generates roughly two-thirds of the world's data.

Harmony Healthcare IT CEO Tom Liddell said automating clinical registry workflows was a natural step for the company due to its deep experience with artificial intelligence.

The HIMSS Immunization Integration Program has the ultimate goal to improve vaccine coverage, says Office Practicum's Chris Gibson and Dr. Rich Szabo.

Epic has built an API to automatically connect the VA database with non-VA hospitals, work that was previously done manually, says Matthew McCay, MultiCare Health System's veteran advocacy manager, and Epic's Brett Barker.

Ten years ago, providers were terrified to share data with health plans for fear of giving up their relationship with the patient and what payers would do with the information and now interoperability is having a favorable impact on patient care, says PointClickCare's Brian Drozdowicz.