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 ...

Interoperability is at an intriguing intersection right now. In one corner are the people suggesting that despite some $35 billion and 10 years of work since the HITECH Act under the American Recovery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

On 9/11, the interoperability problem was born, or so you might have thought. The reality is that the fire service has been struggling with the issue of interoperability for decades. Whether it was ...