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Interoperability, cloud, consumerization were hot topics at HIMSS19

By Jonah Comstock February 15, 2019

It’s always hard to pin down one theme for a conference as large and multifaceted as the HIMSS global conference, which wrapped up today in Orlando, Florida. But this year one theme did stand out above the rest: interoperability. Of course, interoperability and data sharing have been a conversation topic at HIMSS for a number of years. But this time there was a sense that all the effort that’s...

Health data aggregation, centralization platform 1upHealth scores $2.38M in seed funding

By Laura Lovett February 14, 2019

Health data aggregation and centralization platform 1upHealth announced that it has landed $2.38 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Eniac Ventures, Social Leverage and Meridian Street Capital. What they do The Boston-based startup lets patients, providers and developers aggregate and share health data — including information from EHRs — through an API. The platform is able to...

Microsoft launches Azure API for FHIR to promote cloud, interoperability

By Jonah Comstock February 12, 2019

Last week in advance of HIMSS19, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure API for FHIR, the first in a series of APIs to help customers work with machine learning on protected health information in the cloud. The launch follows up on Microsoft’s open-source release on GitHub last November. “We saw tremendous response to that,” Heather Cartwright, general manager for Healthcare NExT at Microsoft,...

DrChrono gets Meaningful Use Stage 3 certification for its mobile-first EHR

By Jonah Comstock February 7, 2019

DrChrono has announced that its EHR, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, has attained ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3. The company believes it is the first to obtain that certification for a mobile-based product. “The way that I look at the world and the way that the company looks at the world, everybody has a hugely powerful computer in their pocket where they can do a...

Connecting data between the public health department and hospitals in Shanghai has improved services for patients, says Tongyu Zhu, director at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.

Connecting data resulting in better health services

January 21, 2019

Fixing the interoperability problem with data science

By HIMSS TV January 11, 2019

Yu Quan, CIO at China Medical University’s Shengjing Hospital

Insight into China's HIT momentum

By HIMSS TV December 13, 2018

EMR lessons from Stage 7 EMRAM hospital

By HIMSS TV November 7, 2018

Healthcare connectivity: improving healthcare across the continuum

By AT&T October 3, 2018

High-speed digital networks are changing how healthcare is delivered, and how healthcare organizations operate. This digital disruption, which will impact every corner of the healthcare continuum, promises to transform how, when and where care is provided, as well as usher in new experiences for patients. It also promises new revenue opportunities for healthcare organizations. More than half (52...

(L to R) Dr. Anthony Chang, David King, Matt Menning, Dr. Steven Lane, and Dr. Eric Louie speak on a panel at Health 2.0.

Interoperability challenges slow down machine learning in healthcare

By Jonah Comstock September 21, 2018

Big data, machine learning, and interoperability are all topics we’ve been hearing about for many years in health tech. But in fact these banner ideas are deeply intertwined with one another. Machine learning requires a certain amount and type of big data — and interoperability plays a large role in whether or not researchers can gain access to the data they need to train models effectively. At a...