Health IT interoperability is hard. But is it really as hard as it is being made out to be? And yet, with all the confusion and the limited progress of general health IT interoperability, electronic ...

Interoperability is one of the most complex and challenging imperatives for healthcare. But it's a matter healthcare chief information officers and other health IT leaders must tackle. A good way of ...

The Meaningful Use program, alternative payment models, artificial intelligence and technical and policy shifts have spurred innovative approaches to data exchange. However, hospitals are finding that ...

Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working ...

Head of Standards for Strata Identity, former Burton Group analyst and technology executive at Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). Multi-cloud computing delivers enormous benefits for today’s ...

March 16, 2026Thomas Keane, M.D., MBAAssistant Secretary for Technology PolicyNational Coordinator for Health Information TechnologyU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesMary E. Switzer ...

The journey toward achieving interoperability in healthcare needs to now move beyond data exchange, and instead, focus on data management. This is the opinion of a panel of experts who gathered at the ...

Interoperability continues to improve among hospitals, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information. As of 2021, 88% of hospitals engaged in electronically sending and ...

The Green NCAP rating initiative plans to include the CharIN label in its comparative tests and corresponding evaluations of ...

Interoperability is a word you seldom hear uttered outside the health care sector (though there it seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongues), yet it’s something that affects everyone.

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) looks at the issue of health information exchange. The Health Information Technology for Economic and ...

In 2018, Australia and the United States finished celebrating '100 years of Mateship,' noting our distinguished history of operating alongside each other since World War I. A key factor of success in ...