Interoperability

Because of lack of interoperability it takes weeks between the time of referral to treatment due to documentation gathering, says Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies.  

Achieving FHIR at scale will come about as other industry standards have done, through usage and/or government intervention, says Paul Wilder, director of CommonWell Health Alliance.  

FHIR at scale awaits trusted scale exchange, but the building blocks and capability are there, says Paul Wilder, director of CommonWell Health Alliance.  

The expectation is for a new Congress to create policy around AI and cybersecurity, says Tom Leary of HIMSS.

An automated process resulted in Humana instantly approving 70% of prior authorization requests, says Greg LeGrow, executive director of payer product market strategy at athenahealth, and Mark Fleming, senior director of product at Availity.

A Hyland/HIMSS Market Insights survey found that providers are still struggling when it comes to sharing data and information with other providers, according to Hyland principal product manager Lyle McMillin.

Artificial intelligence is data hungry, and interoperability is about putting data to work, says Marilee Benson, president and cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT.  

Payers need information for risk adjustment and providers need data to close gaps in care, says Piyush Khanna of Care First BCBS.

New ONC rules are expected to have advancements around public health certification, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and further refinements around information sharing, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.  

The direct messaging network involves 300,000 organizations exchanging a billion transactions a year, says Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust.