How to jumpstart interoperability efforts, unlock population health capabilities
Becker's Healthcare April 4, 2019
The digital revolution in healthcare is at a turning point — hospitals need their systems to talk to each other to make new and existing technologies more meaningful to patient care and to better manage the health of their patient populations.
Success in healthcare today requires an understanding of patients’ exact needs and the ability to manage their care across the entire healthcare ecosystem. To do this, healthcare organizations need to become interoperable. During a March 26 webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by Allscripts, Mike McAfee, AVP of Solution Management at Allscripts, described what interoperability really means, and why healthcare organizations need to strip the concept down to the basics to define it by the needs of...