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Katya Samardina

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Slow and Steady: The Journey Toward Interoperability

While there has been a lot of discussion regarding interoperability as the future of healthcare, there are still a number of significant roadblocks for true interoperability.

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Interoperability vs. the Opioid Crisis

Health IT professionals have long advocated the urgent need for computerized systems to connect, communicate, share, and interpret data under the banner of “interoperability,” but while there has been significant uptake in purchases, there hasn’t been the same uptake in usage.

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Despite Challenges, ‘Interoperability Advancements Will Likely Continue’

Before true interoperability in healthcare is achieved, writes ehrintelligence.com editor Kate Monica, a number of challenges will have to be addressed. Read the full article here.

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Breaking Down Barriers to Interoperability

It’s now essential to have efficient and secure care coordination between caregivers, providers, and stakeholders. So what would stop a provider from embracing new technology and systems that point toward this outcome?

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FHIR® is now Release 3! So what does that actually mean?

A recent post from the FHIR® Product Director Grahame Grieve has announced that Release 3 of FHIR® has been published, and is now available at hl7.org/FHIR. What does this mean, and what’s the impact on you?

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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 3

Healthcare systems globally are at different stages of maturity, but all need to follow a similar path to achieve the holy grail of population health management—where integrated care includes analysis and patient engagement such that everyone has an actionable patient record, improving both clinical and financial outcomes across the population.

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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 2

Our last blog post outlined some of the key drivers for integrated care—healthcare that crosses organizational boundaries and different care settings—globally. In this post, I'll focus on two drivers that are particularly relevant in the U.S.: financial and legislative.

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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 1

Integrated care is the goal of health systems worldwide, and there are numerous drivers for this. The following are some of the key drivers for integrated care globally.

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The Move Toward API-Based Development and Integration

Brian Murphy, an industry analyst, recently anatomized open application programming interfaces (APIs) in the healthcare sector for a 32-page research report. In the piece, Murphy articulated a number of views on: