At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), members of the organization's Electronic Health Record Vendors Association (EHRVA) voted to release the ...

Last-minute comments are rolling in from healthcare IT advocates on the Office of the National Coordinator's Interoperability Roadmap; the deadline to submit is tomorrow. The Consumer Partnership for ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has received a large number of comments on its draft interoperability road map. Some commenters have praised it; others have offered criticisms.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled a draft for its 10-year plan for healthcare interoperability at a joint meeting on October 15. The Office of the ...

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT should add information about Precision Medicine to its Interoperability Roadmap, the office’s Precision Medicine Task Force recommended.

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the ...

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published nearly 250 public comments that it received on its draft nationwide interoperability roadmap. Stakeholders' reactions were ...

One of the most interesting things about the list of this year's most read stories on the topic of interoperability is how few of them relate to policy or federal rulemaking. In years past when we've ...

When it comes to interoperability in healthcare, there’s been a lot of talk and not much action. So, now, despite lots of initiatives, alliances and a national roadmap, one consultant believes it’s ...

ONC is sunsetting its nationwide interoperability roadmap, the agency’s action map for achieving widespread data sharing across the U.S. healthcare system. ONC released its interoperability roadmap in ...

Interoperability is today’s health IT Holy Grail. Physicians, executives and vendors are all being pushed to achieve true interoperability, but like any lofty goal ...

After setting the stage for new interoperability rules, Lucia Savage is now beginning to see the fruits of her work. Savage, who served as chief privacy officer for the Office of the National ...