Taking care of Interoperability
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about interoperability. This has been the main goal at MediPortal since the beginning. But, what’s interoperability? In the most rudimentary state, interoperability describes systems and devices that can exchange data, and interpret that shared data. It is at the very center of health IT’s promises. Let me give you an example, when machines can interpret data and perform automatic functions, such as integrating lab results from one facility into the EHR system of another facility, that’s when we reach interoperability.
Neal Patterson, CEO, Cerner (Kansas City, Mo.).
On healthcare being personal and how interoperability should address that
“One thing…we say at Cerner about healthcare, healthcare is too important not to change. Also, healthcare ultimately becomes personal.”
And changing we are! With constant research and development, we are closing the gap, 2017 will bring good news to Healthcare Technology, not just from the industry but from MediPortal as well. We focused most of 2016 on getting far more sophisticated in the way that patient-specific information is shared. Patients who desired to direct data to their providers were often served a fax number or asked to print the information, not anymore!
Interoperability is defined by data exchange, not data at rest, and we are making sure we put that data to work.
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