Interoperability

Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.

From clinical engineering at UConn to cybersecurity and tech innovator, Christopher Falkner, a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient and Sodexo's senior director of digital strategy and cybersecurity, talks about his career path and the importance of protecting medical devices.  

CenTrak Sales Director for the Southeast and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient Kendall Brown is a resource for CIOs, who represents HIMSS initiatives on telehealth, cybersecurity and interoperability - and educates policymakers on all things health IT.  

Zus Health was created as a sub-basement medical record API for every American, says Jonathan Bush, who is the founder and CEO of the company.

Concord Technologies takes paper documents from legacy formats still being used, extracts the information and turns it into a secure digital transmission, says Garrett Singletary, senior software engineer of data and AI.  

Dr. Monika Sonu, Healthinnovation Toolbox cofounder and HIMSS24 Changemaker, discusses how her medical practice helps inform the development of digital health tools that aim to help address issues that include health equity and interoperability.

HIMSS24 Interoperability Showcase gets solutions out of the lab to demonstrate interoperability between competing vendor products, says Michael Nusbaum, president of MH Nusbaum & Associates.

The Indian Health Service is installing its own EHR that is expected to connect tribal communities across 37 states.

Robert Havasy, senior director of informatics strategy at HIMSS, says HIMSS24 attendees are showing results from AI use and talking about how to regulate it, as well as whether it could be used to re-focus and speed up interoperability efforts.  

Dr. Maria Carolina Aguirre, CMIO at FCV-HIC (Hospital Internacional de Colombia), discusses her efforts with HL7 to encourage Colombia's diverse regions to work together on digital health projects and use interoperability standards.