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 ...

This example addresses the need of a hospital to upgrade their laboratory information system (LIS). The specification language below pertains to required interoperability between the hospital’s legacy ...

In this piece, I look at some real-world examples of each of these ingredients in action, across a range of industries. INTEGRATE: Connecting with existing systems The home-buying experience is ...

Interoperability is among the HIMSS conference’s hottest topics for the last several years running. And that will certainly be the case at HIMSS17 in February again this year. The show floor features ...

For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt ...

Interoperability is currently a hot topic in health care. Interoperability issues can impact all types of healthcare organizations, including ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and ASC management ...

The article ‘From “walled gardens” to open meadows’ showed how anti-competitive practices could be addressed via interoperability and to what effects. Further exploring the questions and challenges ...

The metaverse implies a shared environment that spans a multitude of 3D virtual worlds. Participants in the metaverse will be able to move freely through these virtual worlds, taking their identities, ...

Many devices today center on information in some way; whether it’s biometric, financial, social, or another myriad form of data, communications, and the info it transfers drive many modern-day systems ...

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of open networking has changed the landscape of the network and datacenter industries. Led by a vanguard of hyperscale Internet companies, open networking is ...

“While healthcare transactions generate an enormous volume of data, too much of it is disjointed and inefficiently used.” The above quote was written by Edmund F. Haislmaier, senior research fellow, ...