Interoperability

Artificial intelligence is data hungry, and interoperability is about putting data to work, says Marilee Benson, president and cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT.  

Payers need information for risk adjustment and providers need data to close gaps in care, says Piyush Khanna of Care First BCBS.

New ONC rules are expected to have advancements around public health certification, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and further refinements around information sharing, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.  

The direct messaging network involves 300,000 organizations exchanging a billion transactions a year, says Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust.

Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.

From clinical engineering at UConn to cybersecurity and tech innovator, Christopher Falkner, a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient and Sodexo's senior director of digital strategy and cybersecurity, talks about his career path and the importance of protecting medical devices.  

CenTrak Sales Director for the Southeast and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient Kendall Brown is a resource for CIOs, who represents HIMSS initiatives on telehealth, cybersecurity and interoperability - and educates policymakers on all things health IT.  

Zus Health was created as a sub-basement medical record API for every American, says Jonathan Bush, who is the founder and CEO of the company.

Concord Technologies takes paper documents from legacy formats still being used, extracts the information and turns it into a secure digital transmission, says Garrett Singletary, senior software engineer of data and AI.  

Dr. Monika Sonu, Healthinnovation Toolbox cofounder and HIMSS24 Changemaker, discusses how her medical practice helps inform the development of digital health tools that aim to help address issues that include health equity and interoperability.