Interoperability

<p>For the average provider, this means getting prepared for a national level of access, says Michael Palantoni, vice president of platform and data services at athenahealth.</p> <p> </p>

<p>The shift is toward a more distributed environment where departments can get data immediately from a centralized resource, says Josh Rubel, MDClone's chief commercial officer.</p>

<p>Organizations struggling with data management challenges need to build the model that works for them, says Drew Ivan, chief strategy officer for Rhapsody.</p>

<p>The people who are getting left out are those whose information is not making its way to the people who are caring for them, says Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, health information systems director for the Los Angeles LGBT Center.</p>

Sharing patient information electronically from a hospital to post-acute care is not widespread, providers told CMS.

A digital divide creates a barrier for those who would wish to have fuller participation in their own care.

TEFCA has potential to remove a lot of the friction around what it takes to achieve interoperability, a HIMSS23 panel said.

Modernizing data means shifting it from an asset to a utility, to ensure it's usable for patients, providers and payers, a HIMSS23 panel said.

HDUs enable specific, defined use cases, with extra protections to ensure patient privacy and protection.

<p>Sequoia Project VP of informatics, conformance and interoperability Didi Davis highlights the company’s Data Usability Implementation Guide v.1, released last year, at her HIMSS23 panel.</p> <p> </p>