HIMSS Issues “Call to Action” on Nationwide Interoperability
Healthcare Informatics October 16, 2017
The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has issued a “call to action” for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and others to achieve nationwide interoperability.
In a document the health IT trade association created, it noted that while the industry has made great strides over the past generation, “seamless, secure, nationwide interoperable health information exchange continues to elude us.” It added, “HIMSS asserts that we must achieve secure, appropriate, and ubiquitous data access and electronic exchange of health information: Now is the time for bold action.”
Specifically, HIMSS published the “call to action,” with the aim to guide principles to inform health policy and spur the nation’s health sector to action. “We welcome all who...