Compliance & Legal
Deep Dive: Health organizations must align the right culture, engagement, time frames and leadership, and EMRAM should provide the roadmap to benchmark your organization digitally.
Audacious Inquiry President Scott Afzal discusses his company's encounter notification service for physicians that has become the starting point for using triggered events for a health information exchange.
Data ownership, access and control are just a few of the benefits that blockchain can provide in healthcare, says Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy.
Regulatory agencies around the globe are mandating FHIR adoption and integeration within health systems, according to Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7 International.
Nigel Hughes, scientific director at Janssen Clinical Innovation, says in healthcare it's time to bring the flow of health information into 21st century.
Tom Foley, MD, senior clinical lead at NHS Digital, says the challenge for all countries is to make the data assets actionable, but trust needs to be the foundation of any data sharing strategy.
Working toward EMRAM Stage 7 showed the need for leadership to drive digital transformation and ensure data is used effectively to improve patient care, says Ana Prado, CMIO at Hospital de Cascais in Portugal.
Measuring digital maturity using tools such as EMRAM enables the NHS to track progress of the global digital exemplars against international standards, says Will Smart, CIO for Health and Social Care in England.
HIPAA doesn't big changes, just some work around the edges, says Matt Fisher, a partner at Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee.
E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil faces interoperability, privacy and infrastructure challenges, and its large population is making solutions more complex.