Interoperability

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.

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.

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.  

Trent Sanders, VP of healthcare, U.S., at Kyndryl, in a preview of a HIMSS23 presentation, discusses overcoming technology bottlenecks across revenue cycle processes.  

VP of operations David Murtagh, at MultiPlan, which cofounded the Synaptic Health Alliance with United Healthcare, Humana and others, will speak at HIMSS23 about emerging use cases for distributed ledger technology for payers and providers.  

Even AI created in the lab needs feedback from the real world, says Tina Manoharan, VP of Data & AI Center of Excellence at Philips, who is speaking at HIMSS23.