HIT Infrastructure August 8, 2018
Elizabeth O'Dowd

As organizations bring new tools into their IT infrastructure, healthcare app interoperability becomes a serious challenge for IT departments.

Healthcare app interoperability is not a new challenge for healthcare organizations. Over the past several years organizations have had trouble connecting their health IT tools to their EHRs. The increased use of application programming interfaces (APIs) is key.

Large provider organizations can be tasked with integrating hundreds of healthcare applications, which can take months. These apps need to not only work seamlessly with other applications, but also be HIPAA compliant.

For example, an organization may purchase a tool for monitoring diabetes. To integrate that monitoring tool, a new project for the IT department would need to take place so the app...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Technology
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