Believe it or not, interoperability is happening. You just have to know where to look. A recent post by John Halamka, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor Harvard Medical School, lays out some concrete ways…
HL7 International held Connectathon 9 in Paris on May 10 and followed up with a FHIR Clinician Connect-a-thon on May 15. Both events came at the challenge of interoperability from different angles. Connectathon 9 had 4 separate themes: Clinician Connect-a-thon, meanwhile,…
Interoperability is a mammoth, catchall topic on the minds of healthcare IT stakeholders everywhere. For most providers, however, the term remains an abstraction. For patients, it likely has little meaning. What matters for both is not some lofty ideal of…