Interoperability has become the holy grail of health IT. Though it is the universal goal, there is little consensus on how to get there. Even definitions of what interoperability is are varied, and ...

Health IT software company athenahealth hit a key interoperability milestone with more than 100,000 provider customers now connected to a government-backed data exchange framework. The company says it ...

Most health systems lack vendor-agnostic interoperability tools, limiting data integration and care coordination, a CHIME Foundation survey shows.

A pair of recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show agencies working to help providers and payers reduce their data exchange burdens and enable Medicare enrollees ...

Nearly 90% of health IT leaders surveyed say vendor consolidation is crucial to their interoperability strategy, while less than one-fifth currently have the technology required to provide it SAN ...

Healthcare leaders are continuing to express their concerns about the changes that President Donald Trump’s administration is making to HHS. Just this week, 20 state attorneys general sued the ...

Despite technology advances in electronic health records (EHRs) and the establishment of interoperability requirements by regulatory bodies, siloed patient information remains an unsolved problem ...

LAS VEGAS—The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ramping up major federal interoperability initiatives on several fronts. As part of this interoperability work, the Trump administration ...

When the Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was established in 2004, the health information technology (IT) landscape was relatively bare. Few hospitals and providers ...

The Canadian government introduced legislation to make it easier for patients and physicians to access and share electronic ...

A telehealth firm has admitted that it gained access to patient medical records via a health information exchange network ...