HIMSS has proposed an update to its definition of interoperability which adds operational data exchange as part of its description, taking into account the policy, social and organizational components ...

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has proposed a new definition for interoperability. The comment period on the definition is open until March 30. HIMSS redefined ...

I think we've stumbled upon one the biggest barriers to interoperability between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): there's no real consensus on what ...

Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for ...

The National Quality Forum published a framework for measuring the progress of interoperable health information exchange. Within the 83-page document, NQF defined interoperability as “the ability of a ...

Although many health IT vendors are joining CommonWell for interoperability, the definition of what interoperability will look like over the coming years is still somewhat vague. Since CommonWell’s ...

As technologies continue to advance, organizations are managing increasingly complex tech stacks. According to a 2022 survey of IT and security professionals, organizations are now using an average of ...

A national assessment of hospital engagement in key domains of interoperability, characteristics associated with engagement in interoperability, and the relationship between interoperability and ...

A new framework released by ONC aims to measure interoperability across the country. Building on its interoperability roadmap, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released a ...

In the world of education technology, it serves as a sort of Rorschach test: If you want to know how people feel about data use, privacy, security, and the role of tech in schools, ask them how they ...