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Progress has been made in healthcare with improving data interoperability, or data liquidity, the ability of data to securely flow from one place to another, as needed and appropriate, for patient care and patient use. But there still is more work to do to get to a fully interoperable system.
To get an in-depth look at interoperability and the healthcare knowledge that can stem from it,
Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Blackford Middleton, chief informatics and innovation officer at Apervita, a health IT vendor of quality measurement, value optimization, clinical intelligence and interoperability solutions. Middleton also is a member of the advisory council to the standards body HL7.
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ONC taking submissions for new interoperability initiative
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HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Thursday launched its latest interoperability effort, designed to identify aspirational yet achievable interoperability goals for the industry to rally around over the next decade.
The new initiative, dubbed Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030, comes on the heels of ONC s decision last week to sunset a 10-year interoperability roadmap that the agency launched in 2015. At the time, ONC officials said that while the industry had made solid progress on many of the roadmap s milestones, the roadmap itself no longer drives our work.