Healthcare IT News March 21, 2022
Dr. Donald Rucker sat down at HIMSS22 to discuss how the healthcare industry’s transformation could affect patients and what’s needed to achieve FHIR’s full potential.
The importance of data-sharing and interoperability were two dominant themes at HIMSS22, with leadership repeatedly emphasizing how the COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the consequences of siloed information.
Dr. Donald Rucker, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, says the ability to represent data uniformly is arguably a bigger win than the ability to transmit it – and he says FHIR will be a key way of doing so.
Rucker spoke to Healthcare IT News in Orlando before his HIMSS22 panel about what he sees as the promises of FHIR, how the transformation...