Healthcare IT Today March 7, 2023
Interoperability, an idiosyncratic term for data sharing, has been a key buzzword for both regulators and digital product vendors in health care. Jon Elwell, CEO at Kno2, says the conversation is finally moving away from interoperability – a measure of simple technological achievement – to digital transformation, which encompasses the technology, process, and cultural change that must happen for meaningful advancement in healthcare. There is finally recognition of the role that data sharing plays in healthcare transformation. Elwell highlighted this even more in his recent article titled “Healthcare Will Not Survive Without Better Communication.”
I remember going to interoperability showcases at HIMSS conferences and feeling strange that companies needed to demonstrate that their computer could exchange data. After all, Amazon.com...