Healthcare IT News August 24, 2021
Nathan Eddy

FHIR-connected apps, working in tandem with health information exchanges, can help bridge organizational and data gaps, experts said during HIMSS21 Digital.

Healthcare organizations can use agile connected apps to supplement their electronic health records, as well as using HIE data to supplement internal clinical data, all while improving clinical workflows and improving data exchange and interoperability.

This was the topic of a HIMSS21 Digital discussion between Harm Scherpbier, CMIO for HealthShare Exchange, and Subha Airan-Javia, founder and CEO of TrekIT Health, who pointed out the ways in which integrated health data exchanges can improve quality of care.

“The reality is that so many errors are related to communication failures,” Airan-Javia said, noting they cost health systems more than $110 billion...

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