Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point
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National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Donald Rucker
Health minister Jens Spahn speaking at the opening of the Health Innovation Hub in Berlin
Providers that currently are currently live with CommonWell Services. (Image: CommonWell Health Alliance)
"If you go looking for the people that have the last mile wired and/or have the data available – and in some cases have it in normalized, curated repositories, ready to be exchanged – it's the HIEs," says John Kansky.
"Hospitals engaged in all four interoperability domains – electronically sending, receiving, finding, and integrating – increased 41 percent since 2016," said National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker, MD, seen speaking here at HIMSS18.
Elise Sweeney Anthony, director of the ONC Office of Policy (seen, center, at HIMSS19) said ONC will not be extend the comment period on the proposed rule, because it's important to move as quickly as possible toward a final rule.
